Blue Jays sign Cody Ponce to 3 year deal

[Stangstag]

Gonna have the whitest rotation in baseball if Berrios is traded

Return of the whitejays

[Jonn]

6 minutes ago, Jimcanuck said:

Alternatively, Yesavage starts in Buffalo and comes up after the 1st inevitable injury

He literally started Game 1 of the World Series. Do you know how insane it would be let him start the year in the minors.

[Olerud363.354]

21 minutes ago, Jayzfan79 said:

2005 and 2012 were both pretty awesome too.

2005 was amazing -- Burnette, B.J. Ryan, Glauss, Overbay maybe forgetting a couple.  The 2006 team played great just messed up short stop and for some reason their offense was inefficient.  They scored 800 runs with stats that should have led to 900

2012 - track team and ancient knuckle baller.  Not the greatest really. 

2014/2015 - Donaldson, Estrada, Russell Martin, Devon Travis, Justin Smoak,  Michael Saunders -- pretty incredible group

[glory]

1 minute ago, Stangstag said:

Gonna have the whitest rotation in baseball if Berrios is traded

Return of the whitejays

[Pendleton]

5 minutes ago, Jimcanuck said:

Alternatively, Yesavage starts in Buffalo and comes up after the 1st inevitable injury

 

Nah he's in the bigs. Time to move Berrios with the free agent SP market so bare now 

Gausman, Cease, Bieber, Yesavage, Ponce is filthy. If any of these righties happen to have an off night, we turn to lefty Lauer for length out of the pen. 

[Sorrow]

4 minutes ago, Jimcanuck said:

Yesavage had 25 MILB games in 2025, and pitched 98 innings or slightly less than 4 innings a game.

Im not sure the Jays are ready to give him a full workload.

He threw 139.2 including MiLB, MLB and Post Season. He’s probably good for around 175 next year.

[glory]

I doubt Yesavage starts anywhere other than the Majors as long as he's healthy. Lauer probably the long man. Either that or Berrios stays, Ponce is the long man, and Lauer is a leverage RP, but that seems like a bad use of resources. 

I have no idea how they could possibly move Berrios with that contract, but let's see what they do. 

[ValiantJaysFan]

I might be more excited about this than Cease.

Best case he’s our 4/5 pitcher. If tha doesn’t work out this guy could probably close games or at least set them up.

[hanton]

6 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Gonna have the whitest rotation in baseball if Berrios is traded

Return of the whitejays

lmao

[Ball4Life]

5 minutes ago, Jonn said:

He literally started Game 1 of the World Series. Do you know how insane it would be let him start the year in the minors.

He’ll just say he was trolling.

[Jonn]

Our board Admin thinks Ponce is going in the pen lol.

He had no shortage of suitors if anyone thinks he signed here to pitch out of the pen when almost anywhere he signed he surely starts you're crazy.

[Jimcanuck]

4 minutes ago, Sorrow said:

He threw 139.2 including MiLB, MLB and Post Season. He’s probably good for around 175 next year.

You are probably right, but there is a chance Jays play it conservatively and manage his innings, especially with the depth of pitching they now have.

[Pendleton]

1 minute ago, Jimcanuck said:

You are probably right, but there is a chance Jays play it conservatively and manage his innings, especially with the depth of pitching they now have.

I could see mixing in some sixth starter/BP days yeah

[Jimcanuck]

I don't think Berrios is going anywhere, if he rebounds that's a heck of a 5th starter innings eater.

[ComeTogether]

 

 

[Jays24]

Have no clue how his game will transfer to the big league.  Ill just see how the offseason unfolds because no clue what our rotation and the backend of the bullpen will look like. 

Just bring back Bo please and get a true closer.  Seems like we might trade from a position of surplus to fulfill our needs

[ComeTogether]

 

 

[ComeTogether]

Can we be certain that we will not see Little pitching for Jays next season? 

[Pendleton]

5 minutes ago, ComeTogether said:

Can we be certain that we will not see Little pitching for Jays next season? 

I would say no, unless he gets traded. 

[Omar]

Well kudos to Ponce for reinventing himself in the KBO and getting back in mlb.  The contract of 3/30m is lifechanging.  The Jays are definitely building up starting pitching depth in what they will likely transfer to a lighter workload across the season for all the starters so they enter the postseason completely fresh.  Very strategic.

This also tells me that Atkins has an exit plan for Berrios already.  Got to be right?

[Olerud363.354]

9 minutes ago, ComeTogether said:

Can we be certain that we will not see Little pitching for Jays next season? 

I think they'll give him every chance to work things out.   He was their best reliever by fWAR.  Probably make the team and get a month to work things out and if he doesn't he'll work on it in Buffalo. 

[Stangstag]

12 minutes ago, ComeTogether said:

Can we be certain that we will not see Little pitching for Jays next season? 

Little is good though 

[max silver]

30 minutes ago, Jimcanuck said:

Yesavage had 25 MILB games in 2025, and pitched 98 innings or slightly less than 4 innings a game.

Im not sure the Jays are ready to give him a full workload.

Yesavage pitched 140 total innings, he's built up for a full season's workload but will just need a bit of throttling back on workload at times.

[abola2121]

Just now, ComeTogether said:

Can we be certain that we will not see Little pitching for Jays next season? 

There's a chance Tiedemann could end up replacing him.

[Omar]

Put him in the bullpen?

[Omar]

Fan base: Ross we need a lefty starter.

Atkins:

[max silver]

3 minutes ago, abola2121 said:

There's a chance Tiedemann could end up replacing him.

I think if Tiedemann cracks the major league roster this season it will be as a reliever as he isn't built up to handle any kind of starter's workload.

[Pendleton]

 

Kenny Powers 

[Laika]

Yesavage: Splitter 

Gausman: Splitter 

Ponce: Kick change 

Bieber: Kick change 

Cease: was trying to learn Gausman's splitter last season 

Almost the whole rotation gonna be RHP with changeup stories 

[G-Snarls]

Boss Atkins right now