https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/43/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/building-best-roster-former-blue-jays-pitchers/Yesterday, I published the first part of this two-part series, in which I tried to assemble the best possible lineup of former Blue Jays position players. Today, I’m moving on to pitchers. Here’s a reminder of the challenge, the criteria, and the position players I chose. The Challenge: Put...2695Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:51:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/andres-gimenez-lose-gold-glove-technicality/Andrés Giménez is the best defensive second baseman in the American League. He has been for years. That's why the Blue Jays were willing to part with Spencer Horwitz to acquire him last offseason. It's why they were happy to take on the nearly $100 million remaining on his contract over the next...2696Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:56:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/building-best-roster-former-blue-jays-hitters/I recently got to wondering if I could make up an entire big league roster with active major leaguers who used to play for the Toronto Blue Jays.  Well, really, I was confident I could find enough players to fill out a roster. My real question was if that roster would be any good. Now, it’s...2694Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:51:01 +0000https://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 +0000