https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/page/62/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/rich-hill-free-agent-fix-blue-jays-rotation-gap/Twenty-year MLB veteran Rich Hill is looking for a new team. Could the pitching-strapped Blue Jays be a fit?  “Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.” That's a quote from the late Earl Weaver, a long-time manager of the Baltimore Orioles and an esteemed broadcaster and auth...2419Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:57:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/bo-bichette-extension-look-like/Now that the Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. have agreed to a contract extension, what might it take to keep Bo Bichette in town beyond 2025?   On April 14, the Toronto Blue Jays held a media event to officially announce their 14-year, $500 million contract extension with Vladimir G...2418Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:52:21 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/blue-jays-starting-pitching-depth-deep-starts/Blue Jays starters have thrown at least five innings in all but two games this year. As their depth is tested, can the rotation continue pitching deep into games? The Toronto Blue Jays have played 24 games this season. Their starting pitchers have thrown at least five innings in all but two...2416Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:30:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/week-review-timely-hits-wanted/The Jays won a series, lost a series and left a lot of runners on base. Let's look back at the week that was. Weekly Snapshot: Mon, 4/14 through Sun, 4/20 *** Record Last Week: 3-3 (Overall: 12-10) Run Differential Last Week: -6 (Overall: +2) Standings: Second Place in AL East (2.0 G...2414Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:35:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/roster-moves-sandlin-injured-barnes-dfa-tate-schultz-recalled/The Jays announced some roster moves on Sunday, as they placed Nick Sandlin on the 15-day IL with a lat strain and designated Jacob Barnes for assignment. Their corresponding moves were to recall Dillon Tate and promote Paxton Schultz for his first sniff at the major leagues. Jacob Barnes wa...2413Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:15:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/do-the-blue-jays-have-the-right-stuff-r2411/What does the Stuff+ say about the Blue Jays pitching staff? Some pitches are nasty: Nolan Ryan’s fastball, Randy Johnson’s slider, Mariano Rivera’s cutter, Sandy Koufax’s 12-6 curveball. But until recently, there was no real statistical measure of “nastiness”.Fans would talk about velocity,...2411Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:55:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/alan-roden-has-taken-a-surprisingly-rare-route-to-the-show-r2410/Alan Roden hit his first career home run this week and has been a bright spot in the Jays lineup so far. He has a chance to walk a path that few other Jays players have before. Last month, Alan Roden was added to FanGraphs' list of the top 100 prospects. Simon Li wrote about it and noted tha...2410Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:51:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/davis-schneiders-offensive-woes-leads-to-demotion-r2408/It felt like just yesterday Davis Schneider was launching balls over the Green Monster, one of the hottest hitters in baseball who earned the nickname “The Babe” from Brandon Belt. How quickly things change in the major leagues. Davis Schneider had an excellent spring training for the Blue J...2408Fri, 18 Apr 2025 10:57:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/should-alejandro-kirk-have-tagged-up-r2405/With no outs and runners on first and second, does it make more sense to tag up or to go halfway? There was a moment in Wednesday’s game against the Braves that highlighted a small piece of baseball strategy. Leading off the bottom of the second, Alejandro Kirk singled, then moved up to seco...2405Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:02:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/swing-and-a-whiff-brendon-littles-curveball-is-nasty-r2407/Brendon Little is soaring to new heights thanks to a curveball that's both unhittable and impossible to lay off Remember the 2024 Blue Jays? Of course, we do. A season that was full of optimism fell apart pretty quickly for the team. Bo Bichette struggled to stay healthy and the run scori...2407Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:58:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/blue-jays-pitchers-set-franchise-strikeout-record-r2406/The Braves must have been in a hurry to get out of town. Jays pitchers struck them out 19 times on Wednesday afternoon! Not that anybody should be looking too closely at the standings on April 16, but the Toronto Blue Jays’ 3-1 win over the Braves made the Jays the first team in the American...2406Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:58:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/myles-straw-and-the-clunk-heard-coast-to-coast-r2403/Monday night in Toronto, Myles Straw hit a homer that had to be seen and heard to be believed. Before we get to the “clunk” let’s flash back to Toronto’s offseason. General manager Ross Atkins had previously identified power as “lowhanging fruit” in the free agent market, and after finishing...2403Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:51:01 +0000