https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/47/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/even-alex-anthopoulos-wouldnt-have-extended-vladimir-guerrero-jr-r2322/On Sunday, Mike Wilner, baseball columnist at the Toronto Star, published an opinion piece titled “Blue Jays fans know Vladimir Guerrero Jr. would likely be staying if Alex Anthopoulos didn’t go,” and, well, the title pretty much says it all. Like so many Blue Jays fans, Wilner is understandably...2322Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:56:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/after-shoulder-surgery-daulton-varsho-looks-like-daulton-varsho-r2321/Daulton Varsho has now gotten into two spring training games – his first game action since the rotator cuff injury that cut his 2024 season short and necessitated surgery – and he’s started off with a bang. Two of them, actually. As I write on Monday, Varsho has one walk, no strikeouts, and two...2321Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:51:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/will-chris-bassitt-scale-back-his-eight-pitch-arsenal-r2320/Chris Bassitt has always been a very captivating person. He not only excels at baseball but is a self-proclaimed full-time outdoorsman too. Along with the rest of his family, he has done incredible charity work with the Jays Care Foundation and the "Bassitts Pitch In" program, in which he ple...2320Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:08:11 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/make-or-break-players-on-the-2025-blue-jays-bo-bichette-r2318/Bo Bichette was never supposed to find himself in a feature like this one. He was never make-or-break, he just kept on making it. Bichette came into the 2024 season with three straight 20-homer seasons and a career batting average of .299. But after cratering in an injury-plagued 2024 campaign,...2318Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:56:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/the-blue-jays-and-the-unloved-strikeout-r2317/Orelvis Martinez could be a significant contributor to the Jays in 2025  if he can only manage his strikeouts. The Jays were patient with Joey Loperfido in 2024 "despite an abysmal strikeout rate." And one of Alan Roden's top "things to like" is his great plate discipline, as evidenced by his 89...2317Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:55:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/daulton-varsho-makes-his-spring-training-debut-today-the-blue-jays-really-need-him-r2316/Later today, Daulton Varsho will get his first taste of spring training. In recent days, it has emerged that Varsho’s recovery from September surgery on his right rotator cuff is ahead of schedule. Varsho has been shagging fly balls and hitting with no restraints, and he has progressed to throwi...2316Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:55:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/orelvis-martinez-reminds-the-blue-jays-that-sometimes-mashing-is-all-that-matters-r2313/Question marks surround Orelvis Martinez. They start with his 80-game suspension for failing a performance enhancing drug test, which was announced just three days after he made his big league debut in June. They continue onto the field. Martinez’s defense is far from a sure thing. He’s an infie...2313Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:55:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/the-blue-jays-need-a-backup-catcher-theres-still-a-good-one-available-r2314/If Saturday's spring training game debut is any indicator, Alejandro Kirk is set up for a big season. He ended his day 1-for-2 with an RBI and did some very impressive things with the bat. In his first plate appearance, he fell behind, 1-2, then drove a Carlos Rodón changeup into left field (mis...2314Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:01:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/scherzer-looks-sharp-and-his-pitches-look-sharper-in-spring-training-debut-r2315/Age and health are the big concerns for Max Scherzer this year. Will the 40-year-old Scherzer be able to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2024 season in which his velocity ticked down and his stuff ticked down even further, or is that just who he is now? The Blue Jays got an encouraging sign o...2315Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:56:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/vladimir-guerrero-jr-hits-the-grounder-running-r2312/The Blue Jays and Tigers were rained out on Monday, but after just one spring training game, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is 1-for-2, for a tidy .500 batting average. It's hard to think of something less surprising than Guerrero getting off to a good start at the plate. Since his debut in 2019, no one...2312Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:55:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/the-blue-jays-front-office-and-the-hot-seat-r2308/The Athletic recently published the results of an insiders poll – 32 executives, former executives, coaches and scouts – ranking the pressure index of each team’s front office. It should come as no surprise to Blue Jays fans that the cliche-spewing, disingenuous-seeming tandem of president and C...2308Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:50:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/make-or-break-players-on-the-2025-blue-jays-orelvis-mart%C3%ADnez-r2303/We’re not all that far removed from the Toronto Blue Jays’ young core being the envy of the league, with what appeared to be a stacked farm system with waves of talent set to make winning sustainable in Toronto for a long time. The Jays broke the 90-win plateau in 2021 and 2022 and won 89 games...2303Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:16:02 +0000