https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/page/67/?d=21enhttps://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/make-or-break-players-on-the-2025-blue-jays-erik-swanson-r2325/From family emergencies to injury to underperformance, everything went wrong for Erik Swanson in 2024. Can he turn it around? On November 16, 2022, the Blue Jays traded Teoscar Hernández for Erik Swanson and prospect Adam Macko. In his debut season with the Blue Jays, Swanson made 69 appeara...2325Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:56:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/is-it-too-early-to-say-that-kevin-gausman-is-back-r2327/Yes, of course it's too early. But Gausman showed some extremely encouraging signs, and they're the kinds of signs that tend to stabilize very quickly. On Wednesday, Kevin Gausman made his spring training debut in Bradenton, Florida against the Pirates. He immediately gave us a reason to let...2327Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:01:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/never-challenge-the-eye-of-alejandro-kirk-r2326/On Thursday's spring training game against the Red Sox, the ABS challenge system gave Alejandro Kirk the platform to show off one of the game's sharpest weapons: his eyeballs. On Thursday afternoon, the Blue Jays hosted the Red Sox in Dunedin, earning a 7-4 victory. The game featured plenty...2326Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:50:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/max-scherzers-challenge-challenges-r2323/Back in his day, umpires were people. The Blue Jays’ acquisition of Max Scherzer improved their overall pitching depth, and, despite his age, raised expectations for the rotation this year. What no one expected is that he would become a hilarious victim of the automated ball-strike (ABS) sys...2323Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:36:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/even-alex-anthopoulos-wouldnt-have-extended-vladimir-guerrero-jr-r2322/Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is a very different player, in a very different situation, than the many players Anthopoulos has locked down to contract extensions. On Sunday, Mike Wilner, baseball columnist at the Toronto Star, published an opinion piece titled “Blue Jays fans know Vladimir Guerrero...2322Wed, 05 Mar 2025 11:56:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/after-shoulder-surgery-daulton-varsho-looks-like-daulton-varsho-r2321/Yes, the home runs are great, but a routine groundout told us a lot more about Varsho's recovery and what we should expect from him in 2025. Daulton Varsho has now gotten into two spring training games – his first game action since the rotator cuff injury that cut his 2024 season short and n...2321Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:51:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/will-chris-bassitt-scale-back-his-eight-pitch-arsenal-r2320/After Bassitt's first Grapefruit League start, manager John Schneider indicated that the right-hander might benefit from focusing on a more limited repertoire. The man himself was much more cryptic. Chris Bassitt has always been a very captivating person. He not only excels at baseball bu...2320Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:08:11 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/make-or-break-players-on-the-2025-blue-jays-bo-bichette-r2318/Homegrown All-Star Bo Bichette had a season we’d all like to forget and now finds himself in a real make-or-break situation entering 2025. Bo Bichette was never supposed to find himself in a feature like this one. He was never make-or-break, he just kept on making it. Bichette came into the...2318Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:56:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/the-blue-jays-and-the-unloved-strikeout-r2317/Many baseball writers see high strikeout rates as a major negative. But is a strikeout that much worse than another kind of out? Orelvis Martinez could be a significant contributor to the Jays in 2025  if he can only manage his strikeouts. The Jays were patient with Joey Loperfido in 2024 "d...2317Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:55:01 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/daulton-varsho-makes-his-spring-training-debut-today-the-blue-jays-really-need-him-r2316/Daulton Varsho's recovery from shoulder surgery is going better than expected, and he'll suit up as the designated hitter against the Yankees this afternoon. Later today, Daulton Varsho will get his first taste of spring training. In recent days, it has emerged that Varsho’s recovery from Se...2316Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:55:02 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/orelvis-martinez-reminds-the-blue-jays-that-sometimes-mashing-is-all-that-matters-r2313/Orelvis Martinez has plenty of limitations, but on Saturday, he reminded the Blue Jays that he does one thing so well that the rest of it might not matter. Question marks surround Orelvis Martinez. They start with his 80-game suspension for failing a performance enhancing drug test, which wa...2313Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:55:00 +0000https://jayscentre.com/toronto-blue-jays-news/blue-jays/the-blue-jays-need-a-backup-catcher-theres-still-a-good-one-available-r2314/Backup catcher is a position of need for the Blue Jays, and with Yasmani Grandal available, it's not too late to fix it. If Saturday's spring training game debut is any indicator, Alejandro Kirk is set up for a big season. He ended his day 1-for-2 with an RBI and did some very impressive thi...2314Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:01:01 +0000