https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/page/59/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/max-scherzer-has-history-and-justin-verlander-in-his-sights-r2280/Max Scherzer enters the 2025 season with 3,407 strikeouts in his storied career. That’s a lot! In fact, only 10 major-league pitchers have ever thrown more. If Scherzer wants to earn entry into the top 10, he’ll need to chase down two targets, one static and one active. Before we get to th...2280Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:54:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/alonso-bregman-choice-toronto-blue-jays/Toronto has been active since the end of the 2024 MLB season, adding Andrés Giménez, Nick Sandlin, Yimi García, Jeff Hoffman, Max Scherzer, and Anthony Santander, among others. The question is whether the Blue Jays have done enough to bolster a lackluster offence. In 2024, Toronto’s offence rank...2276Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:08:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/why-pecota-loves-max-scherzer-r2275/PECOTA is the projection system used by Baseball Prospectus, and you often hear about it because it doesn’t expect much from a player or team that you love. That’s how projection systems work; they’re inherently conservative, so if a player had a great 2024 season, they’ll expect that player to...2275Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:58:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/what-if-things-go-right-five-surprises-that-could-lead-the-blue-jays-to-glory-in-2025-r2272/Baseball is truly an unpredictable game. No matter how many projection systems you look at or how well you think you know a player or a team, you really can't know how well a player is going to perform. Take last season’s Blue Jays, for example. How could you predict that the Blue Jays would hav...2272Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:08:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/how-does-adding-max-scherzer-change-the-blue-jays-rotation-r2274/The Toronto Blue Jays have signed three-time Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, and the preliminary thinking is that he’ll slot in as the fourth or fifth starter in the rotation (for as long as he’s able). How does this affect Toronto’s pitching plan? The table below shows how many innings each poten...2274Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:53:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/round-number-roundup-blue-jays-milestones-to-watch-for-in-2025-r2268/Round numbers are aesthetically pleasing (just ask Taijuan Walker). They make convenient markers when we’re grouping players in to tiers. The recent Hall of Fame induction announcements served as a reminder of just how important those milestones can be: Did he have 3,000 hits (Ichiro Suzuki), or...2268Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:59:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/what-can-the-blue-jays-expect-from-max-scherzer-at-age-40-r2271/Across 17 seasons, Max Scherzer has put together a slam-dunk Hall of Fame career: 3,407 strikeouts across 2,878 innings en route to 73.2 fWAR is enough to make even the most in-tune fans take a step back and simply appreciate what he’s done. But at 40 years old, Scherzer isn't ready to hang up t...2271Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:55:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/blue-jays-sign-max-scherzer-r2269/Just one day after reports that Max Scherzer invited MLB teams to a workout to demonstrate that he still has what it takes to be an impact starter, his plan seems to have worked. On Thursday afternoon, Jon Heyman reported that Scherzer is signing with the Blue Jays on a one-year, $15.5-million d...2269Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:11:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/could-a-scott-boras-failure-result-in-a-blue-jays-triumph-r2267/Scott Boras cemented his spot as the most prominent agent in baseball through decades of securing record-breaking contracts for his clients (we’re looking at you, Juan Soto). However, his aggressive negotiation tactics have often been criticized for overselling talent, landing his players in dif...2267Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:02:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/why-do-the-projections-still-love-alejandro-kirk-r2265/From 2020 to 2022, Alejandro Kirk put up a 124 wRC+, meaning that he was 24% better than the average hitter. Only three catchers put up better offensive numbers: future Hall of Famer Buster Posey, number one overall draft pick Adley Rutschman, and Will Smith. That is rarefied air. Kirk started o...2265Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:57:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/the-rise-and-fall-of-davis-babe-schneider-can-he-figure-out-the-fastball-r2264/Every baseball fan knows about Babe Ruth, but the nickname Babe is more widespread the game than you might think. A quick Baseball Reference search reveals 20 different major league Babes. The name went out of fashion roughly half a century ago, but at the the very bottom of the list, you'll fin...2264Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:50:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/news-rumors/toronto-blue-jays/kevin-gausmans-2024-decline-might-be-fixable-a-healthy-2025-could-restore-his-dominance-r2262/From 2021 through 2023, Kevin Gausman was one of the best pitchers in baseball. Over that period, his 15.5 fWAR were tied for the second-most among all pitchers, and among starters with at least 200 innings pitched, his FIP and xFIP both put him in the top five. He finished in the top 10 in t...2262Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:56:00 +0000