According to mlb sources the St Louis Cardinals has reached a deal with Blue Jays free agent Corey Dickerson. The deal is supposedly a 5 mil dollar 1 year deal with incentives.
The rumors are that the Blue jays are making a push for Kyle Schwarber as 1st/DH player to share with Vladdy. Rumors has it that the Red Sox are in the Freddie Freeman Sweepstakes. Votto has no intention in coming home to Toronto he made that quite clear a few years ago his intention are to retire as a member of the Reds.
I wouldn't hold too much hope on that deal sources says that Freeman is looking for a 6 year deal worth $180 mil. He likely like to stay in Atlanta if they pay him otherwise he going to a big market team and it won't be in Canada
This indicates to me that Ray only wanted to be a Blue Jays if that the most money he could get on a contract can't blame the front office you snooze you lose their offer was legitimate. The Blue Jays went after Gausman and signed him leaving Ray out of the mix.
To me this is an indication the Jays front office is moving away from Ray and Semien there's noway with this contract to Berrios the next step is lock in Vladdy and Bichette IMO.
Blue jays are looking into Eduardo Rodriguez from the Red Sox that probably means they have a hunch that Ray will sign elsewhere and so will Semien especially since hiring Scott Boras as his agent who is famous for extorting the maximum money deals available for his clients.
Talks around is that Marcus Semien signs with the Mariners and Robbie Ray signs with Cardinals while the Yankees gets Seager and the Blue Jays reaches a deal with Kevin Gausman.
The Yankees are a good team and they figured out Robbie Ray he throws 60% 4 seam fastball 30%sliders 7% curveball and 3% changeups the Yanks laid off his secondary pitches and look for the 4 seam fastball and tattoed them for the win. Anyways this is pretty much over but the crying right now the Blue jays need to win all their games the Red Sox and Mariners have to lose at least one of their remaining games to go in a one game playoff against the Yankees with Robbie Ray on the mound again they might want to revisit that decision I would go with Berrios he's the one who mange to handle the Yankees the best lately.
Wow what a nerve racking game yesterday Berrios was dealing but what a let down from Mayza talk about a bad pitch he served to Higashioka in the 7th inning a slider middle in any MLB hitter can put that ball in play. I was disgusted after that sloppy delivery I could live better with the Richards offering knowing full well that pitch wasn't bad pitch it was even talked about the MLB channel saying it was 1.26 feet off the dirt they all said it took superb effort from Stanton to put that ball in play let alone hit it out. Luckily Bo Bichette came through because in the crunch because we could easily suffered another heart breaking loss at the hand of the bullpen
That wasn't a bad pitch location for Richards it wasn't anywhere near the strike zone have to give credit to Stanton for hitting that pitch out at top of the shoe laces. Giancarlo has been extremely hot at the plate lately the thing I ask is why didn't they wave the four fingers to put him on first base.
Give the fact that Borucki was ejected from the game and both benches cleared pretty much sum up the feeling from both team. I do think it was intentional given the situation on what had happened in the previous game. The game was out of hand anyways whether Borucki did it on his own is yet to be known but I wouldn't be surprise on a 3 to 5 game suspension the fact that the incident involving Kiermaier was pretty well broadcast through the sporting world and possible payback was to expected does force the MLB to address the situation.