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They were bitching about Buffalo last year, For a team that has such a lousy stadium, they talk alot of s***.

White is so boring,

Yeah we almost lost him when we signed Chatwood I believe, but he cleared waivers and his stuff looks good

Tyler Glasnow, Austin Meadows, and Shane Baz for Archer, still cant believe that haul.

I didnt see this little gem mentioned anywhere from yesterdays Yankees game • The Blue Jays’ highest exit velocity of the day? Catching prospect Gabriel Moreno, who ranks No. 8 in the system, with a 104.5-mph lineout. The buzz around Moreno is only growing, both within the organization and around the league.

2nd highest watched Spring training game ever, thanks to The Blue Jays.

First line I read Buck says "65% of Houstons home runs, have come off home runs" Classic!

Apparently Zulueta wont be pitching in the game today, now he will be pitching on the side. One game in a I cant wait for this Breyvic Valera experiment to end.

The Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network consists of 21 stations (17 AM, 4 FM) in 7 Canadian provinces. This move could see some losses in affiliate stations which would mean money lost, exposure lost etc., this is just a dumb move FULL STOP. Dont fix it if it aint broken. If the affiliate station does not leave, does Rogers truly believe these stations in the Radio Network should pay the same for a similcast production? What a mess.

Just to confirm, this is for preseason only correct? Once the regular season starts we will have full coverage.

Via Dan Shulman Charlie Zoom - said he and Ross Atkins spoke with Vlad today and the focus was on trying to become a Gold Glove 1B. Said the door to 3B was never closed, and remains open, but that Vlad will play more 1B. Allows him to move Biggio around, get guys rest, have more versatility, etc

Here is an article about him....now it is from Jays Journal but its still a little more insight https://jaysjournal.com/2021/02/18/yosver-zulueta-blue-jays-pitcher-everyone-suddenly-talking/

Yes you can be all that, but you forgot RAT!! Just sayin.

Can someone pass Tito a tissue

I f***in hated the Blue Jay era where we did nothing but dumpster dive on any and all guys DFAd. The better this team gets, the better quality guy being removed from the 40 man roster. Lets be glad we are at this stage where its us getting rid of better players and not the team at the other end of it. Rejoice our team is a quality team!!

And Buffalo just announced a new 10 year deal with the jays and MLB https://www.milb.com/buffalo/news/bisons-to-remain-blue-jays-affiliate

Never thought I would ever say this, but I agree with Keith Law

Really , I dont think anyone was hoping we would be signing Phelps, Im really trying to buy into this deal I will take your word on it, I just hope this isnt the final piece.

https://www.thescore.com/nba/news/2104933 Lebron said after the game he didnt feel the fan should have been kicked out "At the end of the day, I'm happy fans are back in the building. I miss that interaction. I need that interaction. We as players need that interaction," he told reporters. "I don't feel like it was warranted (for the fan to be) kicked out. There was a back-and-forth between two grown men ... and we said our piece. He said his piece, I said my piece. And then when someone else jumped into it and said their piece. But I didn't think they should have been kicked out."

Thank god the end is near with his drama

Major League deal too

MLB Issues 154-Game Proposal To Players By TC Zencka | January 31, 2021 at 1:32pm CDT MLB and the Players’ Union continue to haggle over conditions and rules for the upcoming season. On Friday, MLB made another attempt to find an acceptable solution, submitting a proposal to the MLBPA for a 154-game season without prorating player pay, per Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports (via Twitter). The proposal also includes delaying the season by a month and expanding playoffs. Joel Sherman of the New York Post adds that the universal designated hitter is also included in this offer. The MLBPA leadership are mulling the offer this weekend. As it sounds, this deal has everything both sides want: full season pay for the players, expanded playoffs for the owners, and a delayed start for the health and safety of everyone involved. These are the basic conditions that we’ve been heading for all along, or so it has seemed. After all, while MLB has never been in favor of pushing the playoffs deep into November, this year there is a particular benefit to pushing the season in that direction. It would almost certainly mean a greater number of participants – and fans – having been vaccinated against COVID-19. November baseball may be colder, but it’s almost certain to be safer as well. And yet, for the players, there are still some long-term implications that could prevent them from simply signing on the dotted line. As noted by the Athletic’s Eno Sarris (via Twitter), caving on expanded postseason gives the players very little leverage to carry with them into the CBA negotiations at the end of the 2021 season.

Not sure this has been posted but its a write up from a New York Paper that claims Jays should maybe be considered a revenue sharing team. https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-madden-blue-jays-20210130-yuqxdwepcvahtneuhitq3dr3bu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1pi8DmeIT_qYlysrwvUZTmiDmbkELug1pEhSNq09wXWteWDttzZS9BFTk How in the world are the Blue Jays paying for all their offseason acquisitions? This has been quite a winter for the Toronto Blue Jays, a team without a home. The $189.7 million they’ve so far spent on six new acquisitions, center fielder George Springer, infielder Marcus Semien, starting pitchers Robbie Ray and Steven Matz, and relievers Kirby Yates, Tyler Chatwood, has got baseball all abuzz. But while the Blue Jays’ aggressiveness during a time when baseball remains under a cloud of financial uncertainty because of the COVID-19 pandemic may have gotten their fan base super hyped, rival clubs who have been forced to scale back their winter aspirations dramatically after incurring substantial losses in 2020, are wondering just how the Blue Jays are paying for all this? Just about every team in baseball lost about $100 million last year due to the shortened season and the absence of fans in the stadiums. There were virtually zero revenues from ticket sales and concessions while TV and radio revenues were reduced by nearly two-thirds and will require rebates from the clubs to their networks for the lost games. Even though MLB continues to insist spring training will be starting on time, there is no certainty about that or when fans will be allowed in the stadiums. In the case of the Blue Jays, because of the Canada travel ban, even if the season is able to start on time, they will likely have to be playing their home games in their spring training ballpark in Dunedin which seats approximately 6,000 at full capacity. The Blue Jays are justifying their spending binge on the fact that they needed to supplement their budding young nucleus, shortstop Bo Bichette, first baseman Vlad Guerrero Jr., third baseman Caban Biggio and outfielders Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Teoscar Hernandez — whose service clocks are all ticking — in an effort to make a few deep postseason runs while they’re all still in their primes and affordable. Even though they are owned by the multi-media colossus Rogers Communications, the Blue Jays do not presently pay revenue sharing because their revenues are based on what the team itself generates. There is speculation that Rogers Communications, which also owns the TV and radio rights to the Blue Jays games, forgave the rebate owed them by the team for the loss of all the games last year, which was as much as $75-100 million. If so, that would be considered outside revenue, and it’s understandable if the rest of the teams in baseball — particularly the large market clubs like the Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Red Sox and Cubs who will be paying revenue sharing in 2021 — could be feeling they have subsidized all this Blue Jay spending this winter. There is a mechanism called a related party review for which MLB examines all the teams’ revenue streams in determining the revenue sharing payers. Because there were no revenues in 2020, it was decided revenue sharing for 2021 would be based on the average of the clubs’ revenues for the ’17-’18-’19 seasons. However, other teams are said to be asking for a review of the Blue Jays’/Rogers situation: Specifically, if Rogers Communications, the Blue Jays’ holding company, is allowed to plow unlimited amounts of money into the team, that is considered revenue and subject to revenue sharing. Otherwise, the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers could have the same thing this winter with their respective partially-owned networks, YES, NESN and SportsNET LA. I’m told the six years/$150 million the Jays gave Springer particularly consternated other clubs since, despite bidding against themselves once Steve Cohen and the Mets reportedly dropped out at six years /$120 million, the Jays still gave Springer the number he was asking for. Meanwhile, for all their splashy additions, even the Jays themselves are conceding they need two more proven starting pitchers to back up Hyun Jin Ryu if they are to make a serious run into the postseason this year. Until proven otherwise, both Matz and Ray, with all their inconsistencies, remain projects for Jays’ highly regarded pitching coach Pete Walker. The Jays have remained engaged with the ever-tantalizing but much injured James Paxton, who they originally drafted but failed to sign in the first round of the 2009 draft, and they also continue to talk with Jake Odorizzi.

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oh thats cool so he is still with us??