https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/29/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/why-fwar-bwar-see-blue-jays-differently/The beauty of Wins Above Replacement, or WAR, lies in the metric's simplicity. It's one number that aims to sum up all of a player's quantifiable contributions on the baseball field. You can use WAR to compare sluggers to speedsters to defensive wizards. You can use it to compare hitters and pit...2692Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/shane-bieber-arrival-transforms-blue-jays-rotation-formidable-force-alds/After a narrow series win over the Miami Marlins, the Toronto Blue Jays still top the AL East, comfortably ahead of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The AL Central's likely winner, the Detroit Tigers, have the AL's best record. However, the Blue Jays are currently leading the Houston Ast...2690Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:57:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/week-in-review-shane-bieber-debuts-george-springer-shines/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 8/18 through Sun, 8/24 *** Record Last Week: 3-3 (Overall: 76-55) Run Differential Last Week: +2 (Overall: +55) Standings: First in AL East (5.0 games up on BOS), Second in AL (1.5 games back of DET, 4.0 up on HOU) Last Week’s Results Game 126: PIT 5 - TOR 2...2689Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:07:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/myles-straw-turned-bad-trade-to-good/On the morning of January 17, the Toronto Blue Jays acquired $2 million in international bonus pool money and Myles Straw from the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations. As this news broke, Blue Jays fans exploded with excitement, but none of...2687Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:13:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/shane-bieber-showed-off-his-rebuilt-change-up-and-his-ace-potential-in-electric-blue-jays-debut-r2688/On Friday night in Miami, there was a sense of excitement. For the Toronto Blue Jays, there was a thrill that doesn’t come around that often on the baseball schedule. Aside from opening day, when fans of every team all have hope and the thought that if things go their way for six months, th...2688Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:54:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/should-there-be-concern-with-the-recent-results-of-jos%C3%A9-berrios-r2684/Since 2018, Jose Berrios has been one of MLB’s most reliable and consistent starting pitchers. Except for the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, he has posted 32 starts in each campaign between 2018 and 2024, and this season, Berrios is on pace for, yep, 32 starts. In the 2018-2024 period, th...2684Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:53:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/shane-bieber-finally-arrived/Technically, Shane Bieber became a Toronto Blue Jay three weeks ago. Today, however, is when he really joins the team. For the first time in his major league career, he'll don a uniform and step on a mound for a team other than the Cleveland Guardians. As the Blue Jays begin a three-game s...2683Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:13:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/alek-manoah-uphill-battle-continues/Alek Manoah and Ryan Yarbrough were technically teammates last year, although Yarbrough’s arrival in Toronto came a couple of months after Manoah’s season-ending Tommy John procedure. Today, the two will face off in Buffalo, with Manoah pitching for the Bisons and Yarbrough toeing the rubber for...2681Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:25:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/nice-have-superstar-vladimir-guerrero-jr/Editor's Note: I wrote this article before Guerrero exited early on Monday with left hamstring tightness. Let's hope we don't have to find out just how important he is to this team by watching them play without him.  Old friend Matthew Boyd was brilliant last Thursday afternoon. It’s been a...2679Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:55:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/week-in-review-myles-straw-surprise-power-alejandro-kirk-steals/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 8/11 through Sun, 8/17 *** Record Last Week: 4-2 (Overall: 73-52) Run Differential Last Week: +9 (Overall: +53) Standings: First in AL East (5.0 games up on BOS), First in AL (0.5 games up on DET, 3.5 up on HOU) Last Week’s Results Game 120: CHC 1  - TOR 5...2678Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:31:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/do-the-blue-jays-use-little-too-much-or-little-too-little-r2673/A frequent conversation among armchair field managers is whether John Schneider uses some relievers more than he should, to the point that those bullpen arms underperform due to fatigue. Two of the names that appear the most in those discussions are Jeff Hoffman and Brendon Little. Has Schneider...2673Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:13:38 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/hey-blue-jays-whats-with-all-the-bunting-r2676/In the series opener on Monday night against the Chicago Cubs, the Jays picked up a 5-1 victory, highlighted by a three-run homer off the bat of Ernie Clement in the bottom of the sixth inning. Clement’s three-run bomb ended up bringing in the game-winning run, and was the key play in an ot...2676Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:55:01 +0000