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This week we discuss the start of the Blue Jays season and it hasn't been pretty so far. The Blue Jays starters have struggled, but the offense looks ok. Around the horn we discuss the suspension of Rendon and some surprising starts by some teams around the league. Our blue chip prospect this week is 19 year old infielder Tucker Toman.

It's our annual prediction show where we give out predictions on individual division standings, Jays player stats and major award winners. But before we get to that, we quickly recap the World Baseball Classic and give our thoughts on the tournament as a whole.

This week we discuss the performance of some key Blue Jays hitters and pitcher during spring training.  We talk about the Vladdy knee situation and the possibility of him being ready to go in the next week or so and the Kikuchi not being terrible situation.  We talk about the new pitch clock and the effect that it's had on the game and the gamesmanship of some pitcher looking to exploit...

It's 2023 and we start our 3rd season going over the Jays' off-season activity that closed out 2022.  They have traded away Lourdes Gurriel Jr and top prospect to the D-Backs in exchange for Daulton Varsho.  The Jays also sign veteran 1B/DH Brandon Belt.  This accomplishes the task of have a less right handed lineup.  The Blue Jays aslo revealed the progress on the first phase...

It's the last episode of the season and it's Christmas time so we talk about our Christmas wish list for the team.  We discuss the moves the team has made over the last few weeks.  We also talk about the endless pit of money that the Mets seem to have at their disposal.  We go over the many moves and signings made around the league.

It's time to review our preseason predictions.  We were on point on a few and way off on others (Cleveland...wow were we off).  We somehow thought that Pete Walker would turn Kikuchi into a stud a la Robbie Ray.  That didn't happen.  We thought that Merryweather was going to be a solid setup man vying for save opportunities.  He fizzled and broke again.

This week we discuss the World Series results and the upcoming Award Nominee announcements.  We congratulate Vlad Jr on his Gold Glove award and Alek Manoah on his Cy Young nomination.  With the office season officially underway, we talk about the the contract decisions/qualifying offers/free agents.  We debate what decisions the Blue Jays have to make and that a catcher is likely t...

It the MLB Post Season and we couldn't be more disappointed.  In the last episode, we were excited and optimistic for the Blue Jays to start a run to the World Series.  Since then the train went off the rail, with the Jays being unceremoniously ousted by the Mariners.  We talk about what went wrong in that Game 2 collapse.  We talk about what's to possibly come in the off seaso...

This week we celebrate the Blue Jays not only qualifying for the MLB Postseason, but secured the top wildcard spot.  We discuss who we believe will make the postseason roster.  We also talk about a few a few roster questions due to a few players that have been on the injured list, Lourdes Gurriel Jr and Santiago Espinal.  Around the League we talk about the Homerun Milestones that w...

This week we talk about the great play of the Blue Jays as of late.  Is the AL East title in sight? We're only 5.5 game out!  We talk about the drama surrounding a certain TSN host's comment on Kirk's appearance and being an embarrassment to the sport.  Manoah didn't stand for it.  We talk about the white hot Bo Bichette and the "clutchness" of Springer.  Around the horn w...

Recorded on August 30 (didn't upload properly) This week we talk about the Jays being a good position to make the playoff, but is it where we expected them to be at the start of the season.  The Jays celebrate the 1992 World Series team in a pregame ceremony over the weekend.  The AL east have 5 teams above .500 (wow).  Around the league the MLB will have teams playing regular seaso...

This week we see a positive upswing in the Jays performance punctuated by winning 3 of 4 versus the Yankees.  Unfortunately, Springer seem to be playing through some lingering injuries...still hitting well going 6 for 6 in is at-bats in the Yankee series.  There may be some relief in the bullpen with the possible return of Tim Mayza and further down the road Merryweather and Pearson. &nb...

This week bemoan the recent play of the Blue Jays who have a terrible record versus teams with more that a .500 win percentage.    Those teams are the ones they'll be facing in the post season.  We talk about the return and health of a few key player (Springer and Stripling).  We also discuss the struggles of some of the pitchers in the starting rotation (Berrios and Kikuc...

It's been a while and we apologize but we've got a great episode for you.  In this episode, we talk about Charlie Montoyo being fired and the improved performance under interim manager John Schneider.  We also talk about the trade deadline activity and how this could impact the Blue Jays going forward.  We also discuss the most recent Jays series versus the Twins and the controversi...

It's been a long time, so this episode is super packed.  We talk about the up and down month the Jays have had...is anyone else feeling sea sick?  We talk about the reemergence of Cavan Biggio and the stack of players heading to the 60 day IL.  We talk about the imminent return of Danny Jansen and Yimi Garcia, both of whom are starting rehab assignments and how this open an interest...

This week we lament the lack of offense…again and the fact that the starting pitching and bullpen are, for the most part, keeping them in games. We talk about the injury to Tim Mayza (forarm) that appear to be minor and the fac that Romano was unavailable for a few days due to gastro bug. We talk about the possible rehab assignment of Nate Pearson. Around the league we discuss the balls for the um...

As the Jays lick their wounds after a rough week, we discuss what went wrong and hope the return of Teoscar Hernandez will be the spark that was missing in the offense.  We talk about the schedule return of Ryu and the progress on injured Blue Jays Danny Jansen, Cavan Biggio and Nate Pearson.  Around the league, an umpire made headlines (again) so we discuss the Dan Bellino MadBum incide...

This week we celebrate a great couple of series wins and the pitch performances from Berrios, Manoah and Gausman.  We also marvel at the fact that the Jays have 15 wins and 11 of those wins were closed out by Jordan Romano.  We talk about the possible return of Teoscar Hernandez by the end of this week hopefully followed by Ryu.  Around the league we discuss the Met combined no hitt...

This week we recap and discuss the last week of games and discuss some key performances from Zach Collins and Santiago Espinal.  We chat about the possible return of Teoscar Hernandez (10 day IL - Oblique) and the progression of Nate Pearson (10 day IL - Illness).  The topic of bad umpiring, more specifically pitch calling, is talked about after Jeff Nelson was trending on twitter for th...

The MLB season has finally arrived and this week we recap the Blue Jays opening weekend vs the Rangers and the first few games against the Yankees.  We will also talk about the some the injuries that have occurred and the outstanding play of some key players.  Around the league we'll talk about Pitchcom and how it works and what it's doing to the pace of play.  We'll also discuss th...

It's our 2nd annual predictions show.  This episode we talk about who will end up where in the standing, who will win the major awards (Cy Young, MVP, RoY), then we talk about our Blue Jays projected Blue Jays roster and how individual players will perform this season.  Then come fall we'll look back on this episode and realized how "out in left field" we were (pun intended).

This week is like Christmas.  The labor dispute is resolved and we'll talk about what it took to get both sides to come to an agreement.  We talk about the whirlwind week in trades/free agents signings.....And the Blue Jays have established themselves as a serious threat in not only the AL East but in the MLB.  We breakdown the moves made by the Jays front office.

This week we lament the on going work stoppage in the MLB and the games being played by both sides.  We chat about items that have been agreed upon, items that are major sticking points and possible out comes.  We discuss what player and owners may need to do to work out a collective agreement.  On the Jays side we talk about the impact this may have on the development of some of th...

Welcome back to an new season of the show.  After a hiatus brought on by the MLB Lockout, we finally have a few items that we want to talk about.  This week we'll discuss our thoughts on the planned renovation to the Rogers Centre and the recent hiring of the first female coach the Blue Jays system.  We also briefly talk about the Baseball Prospectus Top 101 prospects and the Jays h...

This episode we celebrate Vladdy Jr again, this time for winning the Tip O'Neill Award (Canadian Baseball HoF).  We also discuss the flurry of signing that the Jays made leading up to the Lockout.  We chat about the Blue Jays "Exes" that signed big contract elsewhere as well as the big spenders in Texas.  Speaking of the Lockout, we discuss our thoughts on the lockout and whether th...