https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/57/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/bullpen-trust-rankings/Despite a few blips on the radar and injuries to some key guys, the Blue Jays' bullpen has been a bright spot for the team early in the season. Jays relievers have paired their league-best K% of 28.4% with a 9.0% BB% to get the best K-BB% in baseball (entering games on Wednesday).  Despite...2481Thu, 22 May 2025 10:50:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/vladimir-guerrero-jr-swing-chase-rate-strikeouts/On May 10, Sportsnet's Ben Nicholson-Smith noted in a Bluesky post that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has chased less in each of the past three seasons. I updated the data to May 18, and the 2025 trend continues. Let's take a closer look. Table 1 shows that since 2023, Guerrero Jr.'s Chase% has st...2478Wed, 21 May 2025 10:52:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/battle-against-500-record/It’s hard to believe that we’re already talking this way, but we’re now more than a quarter of the way through the 2025 MLB season. After 46 games, the Blue Jays are 22-24, two games below .500. There have been a number of high points, including sweeps of the Nationals and first-place Marin...2476Tue, 20 May 2025 12:50:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/catchers-kirk-heineman-major-strength/Following a slow start to the season, Alejandro Kirk has been red-hot since the end of April. In his last 17 games, he is 24-for-65 (.369) with an .871 OPS and a 148 wRC+. That stretch includes the two most impactful hits of his career, at least according to Win Probability Added. On April 25, w...2470Tue, 20 May 2025 10:55:04 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/toronto-blue-jays-week-in-review-two-dropped-series-r2475/Weekly Snapshot: Record Last Week: 2-4 (Overall: 22-24) Run Differential Last Week: -6 (Overall: -27) Standings:  Place in AL East (4.5 GB), 10th in AL (3.0 GB of Third Wild Card) Last Week’s Results May 12 - 18 Game 41: TB 11 - TOR 9 Jose Berrios: 5.1 IP, 5 H, 5 ER, 4 K, 3 B...2475Mon, 19 May 2025 02:41:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/vladimir-guerrero-jr-500th-run-scored/Ahead of spring training, we looked at some milestones that Blue Jays players might reach this season. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. getting to 500 runs is the last of the “Ironclad Locks” to fall, with Andrés Giménez's 100th stolen base and José Berríos’ 100th win being the others. The big part of Vlad...2465Sat, 17 May 2025 11:57:59 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/jake-bloss-injury-blue-jays-starting-pitching-depth/  Entering the 2025 season, it felt like every prospect evaluator had a slightly different opinion about Jake Bloss’s potential. That’s not uncommon, especially when it comes to a young pitcher with tremendous skills and equally un-tremendous numbers from his first showing in the major leag...2469Thu, 15 May 2025 15:03:41 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/eric-lauer-gotten-job-done/Eric Lauer made his Blue Jays debut on April 30, 2025. It was a long time in the making.  In the summer of 2013, the Jays saw something they couldn’t resist in Lauer. Days after his 18th birthday, the southpaw heard his name called in the 17th round of the MLB draft. The Blue Jays must have...2466Wed, 14 May 2025 10:53:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/bats-are-back-will-they-stick-around/The Jays capped off a three-game sweep of the Mariners in Seattle on Sunday with a nine-run explosion. The victory marked the first time Toronto has scored nine runs in a game this year and only the second time they’ve scored at least eight since the second day of the season (the other being the...2463Tue, 13 May 2025 10:50:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/week-in-review-bats-coming-alive/Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 5/4 through Sun, 5/11 *** Record Last Week: 4-2 (Overall: 20-20) Run Differential Last Week: +11 (Overall: -22) Standings: Third Place in AL East (3.0 GB), 10th in AL (1.0 GB of Third Wild Card) Last Week’s Results Game 35: TOR 3 - LAA 8 Ureña: 4.1 IP, 4 H,...2462Mon, 12 May 2025 13:35:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/chris-bassitt-walking-tall-not-walking-anyone/Following a hot start to the season, Chris Bassitt is looking more like his old self. We knew that the version of Bassitt with a sub-1.00 ERA was never going to stick around all year. He has more than quadrupled his ERA over his last four starts, bringing it up from 0.77 on April 16 to 3.3...2461Mon, 12 May 2025 10:52:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/blue-jay-batter-barrel-blues-r2459/On April 28, on Bluesky, MLB.com’s Mike Petriello noted that Toronto’s batters posted the second-lowest Barrel% in 2025. Although Toronto's ranking has since improved to 20th, should the Blue Jays be concerned? Can the team improve their Barrel% performance for the rest of the season? Let’s dig...2459Sun, 11 May 2025 10:52:01 +0000