https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/41/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/qualifying-offer-2025-bichette-bieber/Earlier this week, a report from the Associated Press confirmed the price of this year’s qualifying offer: $22.025 million. That number, the average of the 125 highest MLB salaries in 2025, is just under a million dollars higher than last year’s $21.05 million QO. The qualifying offer syste...2789Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:33:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/mariners-alcs-game-three-recap-gotta-belieb-shane-bieber/Whatever your superstition or good luck charm of choice is, if you switched it up between Games 2 and 3, you helped. The Jays, for their part, left the white panel hats in Toronto and switched to the double-blues to wear with their powder blue uniforms. The switches worked, and the bats exploded...2787Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:15:05 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/its-not-over-yet-r2785/How often has the visiting team won the first two games of a best-of-seven postseason series? Thanks to Sportsnet's Arden Zwelling, I can tell you: 28 times.  How often has that team with a 2-0 lead gone on to win the series? Thanks again to Zwelling's research, I can disappoint you with th...2785Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:12:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/how-can-shane-bieber-succeed-against-the-mariners-r2786/Baseball happens fast. One day, the Toronto Blue Jays were celebrating sweet victory over the game's Evil Empire in the ALDS, and not even a week later, they're embarking on a road trip to Seattle with no guarantee of returning to save their season. The odds and recent history of teams coming ba...2786Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:59:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/delightful-play-dismal-day-nathan-lukes/Nathan Lukes almost didn't play on Monday. Of course, it wouldn't have made much of a difference, as the Blue Jays flopped their way to a 10-3 loss. But yesterday's pounding would have only been even harder to watch without Lukes in the lineup. The outfielder exited early in Game 1 of the A...2784Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:28:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/blue-jays-mariners-alcs-game-2-is-this-how-the-yankees-felt-r2782/In a seven-game series, they say you aren’t in trouble until you lose one at home. Well, now the Jays have dropped two at home and head to Seattle looking to: 1. Avoid the sweep. 2. Force a return to Toronto, and 3. Win the damned series. Long odds to be sure, but this Jays team has been counted...2782Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:53:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/cult-heroes-bracket-happy-thanksgiving/Happy Thanksgiving, Canada, and boy, am I thankful for this baseball team. With the team from Bronx County dealt with, the Toronto Blue Jays are still playing baseball. Even as my heart palpitated through the first games of the 2025 playoffs, I reminded myself that this experience is the re...2778Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:17:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/mariners-alcs-game-one-recap-big-dumper-comes-to-town/With apologies to Nathan Lukes, the first inning of Game 1 went almost perfectly. Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman gave up a pair of singles, but a heads-up play from Addison Barger – a throw to the plate on a fielder’s choice – caught Cal Raleigh and kept the top half scoreless (+7.2% WPA). One...2781Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:00:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/toronto-blue-jays-alds-awards-r2780/In our recap of Game 4, we noted what a team effort that particular game was. That’s been the story of the season. This team has spoken publicly about how tight of a unit they are. When a new player joins the team or gets called up, they are immediately integrated into the main squad. This...2780Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:18:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/kevin-gausman-leads-blue-jays-alcs-number-34-roy-halladay/When Roy Halladay passed away in 2017, a 26-year-old Kevin Gausman expressed regret that he never got to know the pitcher he grew up idolizing.  “One of my biggest regrets looking back is I didn't reach out to him and get his number,” Gausman told MLB.com’s Brittany Ghiroli. But Gausma...2779Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:58:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/how-do-the-toronto-blue-jays-stack-up-against-the-seattle-mariners-in-the-alcs-r2777/Before the American League Division Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees began, I examined how the Blue Jays compared with recent World Series teams. The analysis consisted of two parts. The first part of the analysis was titled, How Does the Blue Jays’ Offence Stack Up...2777Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:54:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/alcs-preview-blue-jays-take-on-mariners/The Blue Jays are going back to the ALCS. And now, finally, we know who will be standing between them and their first trip to the World Series since 1993.  The Mariners beat the Tigers 3-2 on Friday night in a 15-inning marathon, despite the very best efforts of Tarik Skubal and Detroit's b...2776Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:04:00 +0000