Brock Beauchamp

This is an excellent article on seam-shifted wake from Brewer Fanatic. Really detailed, fascinating stuff about pitching. https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/the-most-impactful-pitching-advancement-of-this-decade-understanding-seam-shifted-wake-r3992/

The Blue Jays have agreed to terms with right-handed reliever Cody Ponce on a three-year contract, reports Ken Rosenthal. The contract is for three years and $30 million overall; dollar breakdown by year is not yet known. Ponce was drafted out of Cal Poly Pomona by Milwaukee in the second round of the 2015 Draft, 55th overall. In his junior season at Cal Poly Pomona, he recorded a 1.44 ERA with 67 strikeouts in 62 1/3 innings over 13 starts. Ponce began his professional career in the Brewers system and later moved into a full-time relief role. In July 2019, Pittsburgh acquired him from Milwaukee in the trade that sent Jordan Lyles to the Brewers. Ponce reached the majors with the Pirates in 2020 and appeared for them in 2020 and 2021. Acr oss those two seasons, he pitched in 20 games, including five starts, logging 55 1/3 innings with a 5.86 ERA, 48 strikeouts, and a 1.54 WHIP. After the 2021 season, he left affiliated ball, ending his initial major league stint and moving on to opportunities in overseas leagues. After leaving Pittsburgh, Ponce spent three seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball and one season in the Korea Baseball Organization. In Japan, he pitched for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, making 39 appearances and throwing 202 innings with a 4.54 ERA and 165 strikeouts. On August 27, 2022, he threw a no-hitter for Nippon-Ham against SoftBank at the Sapporo Dome, facing 28 batters and recording six strikeouts. Ponce then joined the Hanwha Eagles in Korea. In the 2025 KBO season, he worked 180 2/3 innings with a 1.89 ERA and 252 strikeouts as a starter (29 games started). That performance set a new single-season KBO strikeout record, and he also set the league’s single-game strikeout mark with 18 strikeouts on May 17. He was recognized with the KBO’s Most Valuable Player award and the Choi Dong-won Award as the league’s top starting pitcher. View full article

Owen and Jesse break down the shocking signing of Dylan Cease to a seven-year contract. This alters the shape of the rotation considerably, especially with the late-season emergence of Trey Yesavage. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jays-centre-podcast/id1846108462 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Bi7SzfpcqMo5xYWnbCeoL Listen on iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-the-jays-centre-podcast-300304824/ Listen on Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/2qk9wqxd Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jayscentre View full article

Agreed. He'll probably be a pretty good player, but nothing like the 5-win player he was in 2025.

I don't have much interest in seeing Bellinger on this team, especially at the price he's likely to command this offseason.

Every offseason, we offer our You’re The GM! tool to build your ideal Blue Jays roster. This year, we’ve updated and streamlined the tool a bit to improve the experience. The idea behind this feature is to give fans a chance to play the role of General Manager (or CBO or PoBO… you get the idea) for their favorite team, the Toronto Blue Jays. It’s meant to give fans the opportunity to discuss (and, let’s be honest, argue) how they would approach the long, dark MLB offseason. This tool is intended to be informal and fun, so we’ve left it as open as possible. There is a payroll “budget” that loosely resembles the Blue Jays' 2025 payroll, but there is no penalty for going over that number. It’s a guideline, nothing more. Second, you can submit as many blueprints as you like throughout the offseason. As the offseason landscape changes, users often return multiple times over the winter and create new blueprints. Before we get into the breakdown of the tool, you can save your blueprint and come back to it at any time. The only restriction is that you must register an account on the site to create a blueprint (so we can save a draft for you and also post the blueprint for others to discuss). Let’s get into the tool itself. It has four quadrants that work best if addressed in a counter-clockwise order (this tool works much better on a desktop due to its complexity, but it will work on mobile devices if need be). Top Left: The 26-Man Roster We have created a rough guideline for the Blue Jays' 26-man roster today. The roster is flexible; you can add or remove players as you see fit. We’ve also included either guaranteed salaries or, in the case of arbitration and contract options, the recommendations of MLB Trade Rumors. This section is where you build your roster and make changes based on the following two sections. As you make changes to players and salaries, the total payroll number (right side of the screen) will change, allowing you to track your budget on the fly. The bottom field in both columns is for any dead money you assume during the course of your offseason. Acquiring dead money should be uncommon, but we want to give users the option to take on dead salary if it suits their purposes. Bottom Left: Arbitration & Trade Decisions Here, you will find a selection of arbitration options and internal options (usually from the 40-man roster or minor leagues) to assist in building your offseason roster. On the right-hand side of this column, you will see Trade Candidates, a list of the 40 players most likely to be traded this offseason, per MLB Trade Rumors. To help you get up to speed with these candidates, we offer a direct link to the MLBTR write-up on trade candidates. Bottom Right: Free Agents Here, you will find the top 50 free agents, again per MLB Trade Rumors. These are sorted by position to facilitate quickly finding your desired free agent and include the recommended salary for that player. Because this is a blueprint for a single year, we only include their projected salary for the coming season, not the number of years or anything else. To help you get up to speed with these free agents, we offer a direct link to the MLBTR write-up on the best 50 free agents available this winter. Top Right: Dead Money, Your Total Payroll, & Commentary The only unalterable field on the page is Dead Money; it is players to whom the team has committed money but has no reasonable way to get out of the contract. Below that, you will see the recommended budget, your current total, and the percentage you are over or under that budget. Again, keep in mind the budget is only a guideline, and you can go above it as much as you like… But defend your choices, coward! The following field is Title, which gives other users an idea of what to expect with your blueprint (e.g., Be Unreasonable, Sign Kyle Tucker!). When your blueprint posts for other users, it will read “Your Username’s 2025 Payroll Blueprint: Be Unreasonable, Sign Kyle Tucker!”. The following field is Your Comments & Explanation, a long-form field meant to type out the rationale behind your decisions. Here is the place to fully explain your trades (including which players are leaving the Blue Jays to bring in new players), why you targeted specific free agents, and any promotions from the minors you advocate or any options you declined to extend to a specific player. This is often multiple paragraphs; you can write up as much detail as you desire. That’s it, you’re done! At this point, you can either publish your blueprint to the forums or save it for later if you feel it’s incomplete. Thank you for joining us at Jays Centre. I hope you enjoy playing the role of general manager, at least for a moment! Start Your Payroll Blueprint Now View full article

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We made some significant changes to logins this morning; most of you will not notice a difference, but some of you might see your passwords "change" or other oddities pop up. That's because we just rolled out a new parent site, DiamondCentric.net. Here is a quick rundown on what it is and why it exists. Introducing The All-New DiamondCentric! - DiamondCentric - DiamondCentric DIAMONDCENTRIC.NET You've used one of our team sites; now we have an MLB site!

We're looking for contributors to write Blue Jays content over the offseason! First, feel free to reach out via email at brock.beauchamp@jayscentre.com or reply to this article. Writing Articles If you’ve ever wanted an audience for your Jays takes, this is the perfect place. While we generally lean into analytics and analysis, we also take a “come as you are” approach to baseball and give writers a lot of leeway to write about the game in a way that interests them. That could manifest in historical pieces, previews, or regular series. It’s a matter of finding your niche in the fandom and carving out a space for it. Making Videos We're also looking for videographers! Most of our content is on the shorter side (3-7 minutes), though we have space for plenty of different formats and ideas. Like the writing side of the site, we usually lean into analytics, but it's not the only path we're open to exploring. It is also noteworthy that we pay our content creators. It’s certainly not enough to quit your day job. So don’t do that. However, it might be enough to show that we value your time, talent, and effort. If you know someone who might be interested in creating Blue Jays content as a side job, please share this with them! View full rumor

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What are your thoughts on him? Who Will Land This Offseason's Biggest International Free Agent? - Padres - Padres Mission PADRESMISSION.COM Munetaka Murakami is ready to make his highly anticipated move to Major League Baseball in 2026. Who makes the most sense to land the star slugger?

Twins and Brewers, then Padres. Those are the three places I’ve lived the longest.

I was cheering for the Jays, but it would be disingenuous to call myself a Jays fan. To me, it’s more about the community than the team, though there are some teams I avoid.

A heartbreaking loss for you guys. I was just about losing my mind, and I had no horse in the race. I've been running baseball sites for over 20 years now, and this is the first time I've been able to experience a World Series from the eyes of a fanbase. Thanks to the Blue Jays for that, even if it ended in heartbreak.

The Blue Jays were so close. So close. Owen Hill and Jesse Burrill break down the heartbreaking Game 7 of the World Series. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jays-centre-podcast/id1846108462 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Bi7SzfpcqMo5xYWnbCeoL Listen on iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-the-jays-centre-podcast-300304824/ Listen on Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/2qk9wqxd Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jayscentre View full article

Payroll almost has to rise, given they've gone seven games in the World Series. Does this mean the Jays keep Bichette?

Are we all stressed out yet? How are your fingernails doing? Game 7 at Rogers Centre tonight will decide the World Series. The Dodgers forced tonight’s winner-take-all with a 3-1 victory in Toronto on Friday, setting up a marquee pitching matchup: Max Scherzer for the Blue Jays and Shohei Ohtani for the Dodgers. First pitch is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. Reports indicate Ohtani will start on three days’ rest. Game 6 featured Yoshinobu Yamamoto working 6 innings of one-run ball before Los Angeles covered the final nine outs with Justin Wrobleski in the seventh, Roki Sasaki in the eighth, and Tyler Glasnow for the ninth. Glasnow recorded the save on three pitches, ending the game with a line-drive double play started by Kiké Hernández. Kevin Gausman started for Toronto. Scherzer’s assignment gives Toronto a starter with extensive World Series history. He has started Fall Classic games with Detroit in 2012, Washington in 2019, and Texas in 2023, and he took the ball in the most recent Game 7 back in 2019. Scherzer will become the fourth pitcher to start multiple winner-take-all World Series games, joining Bob Gibson, Lew Burdette, and Don Larsen. Max Scherzer vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Current Batters Table Rk Player B PA AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS SH SF IBB HBP GIDP 1 Freddie Freeman L 63 53 11 4 0 3 4 9 15 .208 .317 .453 .770 0 1 2 0 0 2 Michael Conforto L 48 42 12 1 0 4 6 5 17 .286 .375 .595 .970 0 0 0 1 1 3 Miguel Rojas R 41 37 9 3 0 1 4 3 5 .243 .317 .405 .722 0 0 1 1 0 4 Max Muncy L 23 17 4 0 0 1 2 6 6 .235 .435 .412 .847 0 0 0 0 1 5 Tommy Edman B 13 11 4 1 0 1 2 1 3 .364 .462 .727 1.189 0 0 0 1 0 6 Mookie Betts R 12 10 3 1 0 1 2 2 1 .300 .417 .700 1.117 0 0 0 0 0 7 Teoscar Hernández R 9 7 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 .143 .333 .143 .476 0 0 0 0 0 8 Kiké Hernández R 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 1 9 Shohei Ohtani L 6 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 .333 .333 .500 .833 0 0 0 0 0 10 Alex Call R 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 .400 0 0 0 0 0 11 Clayton Kershaw L 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 1 0 0 0 0 12 Andy Pages R 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .333 .667 0 0 0 0 0 13 Will Smith R 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 14 Alex Freeland B 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 15 Esteury Ruiz R 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Provided by Stathead.com: Found with Stathead. See Full Results. Generated 11/1/2025. Ohtani is expected to start on short rest so he can remain in the game as a hitter after he leaves the mound. Under the two-way player usage rules, if he starts as a pitcher, he may continue as the designated hitter upon removal; if he were to enter only in relief and not finish the game on the mound, the Dodgers would forfeit the DH. Los Angeles has mapped out coverage behind him: Glasnow is lined up for bulk innings after throwing only three pitches in Friday’s save, Blake Snell is likely available in some capacity, and Sasaki, who threw 33 pitches with an up-down in Game 6, could be a leverage option. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. enters Game 7 with seven home runs and 28 hits across this postseason. Ernie Clement has provided high-contact output, batting .397 with a .947 OPS in the postseason. Alejandro Kirk has added power from the catcher spot with five postseason home runs and an .838 OPS. George Springer, who exited Game 3 with right-side discomfort, returned to the lineup for Game 6; Bo Bichette, activated for the Series after a left knee sprain, played the full Game 6 at second base and remains limited on the bases. View full article