Locked On Blue Jays - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Blue Jays

The MLB has come out with its major award nominations for the 2024 season. Unsurprisingly, the Toronto Blue Jays do not have anyone nominated for the AL MVP or AL Cy Young Awards, but we do have a nominee for AL Comeback Player Of The Year, Chad Green. Chad Green had a very underrated season in Toronto in 2024. With injuries to Erik Swanson and Jordan Romano, Green had to step up this season and w...

We continue our season reviews of the players traded from the Toronto Blue Jays at this year's trade deadline. In this episode, we analyze Justin Turner and Trevor Richards and their tenures with the Toronto Blue Jays. Justin Turner was the Toronto Blue Jays biggest signing of the offseason. With an offense that struggled immensely in 2023, it was very surprising that this was the biggest acquisit...

The 2024 Toronto Blue Jays season was an overall disappointment. With the 8th highest payroll in baseball, the expectation was that the Blue Jays would make the playoffs. As we know, this did not happen. Every MLB team has expectations at the start of every season, whether that’s to make the World Series, make the playoffs, or even finish the season above .500. Fortunately for Blue Jays fans, many...

We continue our season reviews of the players traded from the Blue Jays at this year's trade deadline. In this episode, we dive into IKF and Yimi Garcia, and their tenures with the Toronto Blue Jays. When IKF signed with the Toronto Blue Jays, we were not huge fans of the signing, but he proved us wrong and had a very successful season with the Blue Jays. Yimi Garcia needed to step up this season...

Projected arbitration contracts have been released for all MLB teams. Considering the Blue Jays have 10 eligible players in arbitration, this will be an extremely important period for the organization. With a team that has gotten considerably younger since the trade deadline, the Blue Jays front office must be cautious of how they approach and plan for these arbitration hearings. In this episode,...

Today is the start of our 2024 player reviews. There are a lot of players to review from this season, so we decided to start with the players that were moved at the trade deadline from the Blue Jays to opposing organizations. Today, we decided to start with Yusei Kikuchi and Nate Pearson, two pitchers who had many ups and downs throughout their Blue Jays career. In this episode, we analyze the tra...

The MLB has announced its nominees for the Golden Gloves Awards at every position. The Blue Jays had two of their players nominated in this year's awards, Daulton Varsho and Ernie Clement. When Ross Atkins built this roster, the goal was to build up the defense behind good pitching, so Blue Jays fans should expect a few nominations for these awards. In this episode, we break down Varsho and Clemen...

In an interview with Hazel Mae, Teoscar Hernandez spoke about his feelings towards Toronto, taking us back to Blue Jays fans' memories with Teo as a part of the ball club. Teoscar reflects positively about his time in Toronto and the fans feel the same way. Since Hernandez was traded to the Mariners in 2022, things have changed for the worse in Toronto as the offense has been subpar, with an overw...

Here we go again. We have not even hit the free agency period, and the rumors about Juan Soto heading to the Toronto Blue Jays are already circulating. Multiple articles have surfaced stating the Blue Jays are prepared to make an offer for the young star. Juan Soto is the biggest free agent of the offseason, and would automatically vault the Blue Jays into the conversation of World Series Contende...

This is our Toronto Blue Jays end-of-season awards show for 2024. As a whole, this season was one to forget. Some individuals on the Toronto Blue Jays had good stretches, made highlight-caliber plays, and gave Blue Jays fans a reason to tune in to watch the baseball games. With all the negatives from this season, we present to you some positive awards, negative awards, and less serious awards, bri...

This is a critical off-season for the Toronto Blue Jays. With all the success Blue Jays fans were promised throughout the last five seasons, the fans' patience with this team is running thin. The off-season is important for every team as it is their opportunity to add and let go of players to restructure their roster for the better, but this off-season feels different. Considering the Blue Jays fr...

Over this past season, Blue Jays fans have heard the words “Retooling” and “Rebuilding” at a rate we never thought would be imaginable at the start of the 2024 season. In the last episode we focused on the retooling, and what that would look like for the Blue Jays organization. Today, we explore the possibility of a rebuild, who should be moved, and what a lineup could look like in the short and l...

Over this past season, Blue Jays fans have heard the words “Retooling” and “Rebuilding” at a rate we never thought would be imaginable at the start of the 2024 season. Due to the performance of the players on the Blue Jays & the decisions of the front office, there have been ongoing debates about what direction the Blue Jays should take this offseason. Should they move on from Vladdy and Bo? Shoul...

During his press conference, Ross Atkins declared John Schneider would return as manager for the 2025 baseball season. With a season where many things did not go well for the Blue Jays, many fans were expecting Schneider and Atkins to be fired at the end of the season. Should John Schneider have been fired? How much of this season’s disappointment can be blamed on Schneider? We break down John Sch...

Today we dive into the Ross Atkins portion of the interview. Ross addressed many components of this organization, talking about Vladimir Guerrero Jr/Bo Bichette extensions, a free agency plan, views on roster construction, and what he viewed as the positives and negatives of this organization. In this episode, we will give our reactions to statements made by Ross Atkins, breaking down what this me...

Today was a huge day for Blue Jays media and Blue Jays fans. Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro took the stand to answer questions about the underwhelming 2024 baseball season. Reporters asked questions about many facets of the Blue Jays management team and were eager to gather answers about the pair's thoughts and feelings about this season, and their plans for the future and beyond. In this episode, w...

Toronto Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman spoke to the media about the underwhelming performance of the organization this season. Kevin Gausman has been one of the most open Blue Jays about how he has felt this season, as this is not the first time the ace has talked to Blue Jays media about the team's struggles. Being a veteran in the league, Kevin Gausman has a good feel for what it takes to be a succ...

The Toronto Blue Jays decided to start their first day of the offseason with a BANG. Long-time hitting coach Guillermo Martinez was fired after six seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays. It is no secret that the Toronto Blue Jays offense was not good enough this season, so this decision did not surprise Blue Jays fans. Well, give our thoughts on this transaction and analyze what went wrong in a Toron...

It is finally over. The Toronto Blue Jays played their last game this weekend, losing 3-1 and ending the season with a series sweep against the Miami Marlins. Not a lot went right for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2024. With all the playoff aspirations and team build-up during the offseason, it would be impossible to say that fans are not disappointed with the result after 162 games. In this episode, w...

The Toronto Blue Jays had their last off day of 2024. With only three games left in the season, the Blue Jays lining looks very different from how it did on opening day. While some of these changes are due to how the Blue Jays performed this season, other decisions can be attributed to the amount of injuries the Blue Jays have had this season. We decided to break down the major Toronto Blue Jays i...

The Toronto Blue Jays play spoiler in the American League, defeating the Boston Red Sox in the last game of their series 6-1. Jonatan Clase had the best game of his young MLB career, hitting his first career home run into the right bleachers on the way to his 3/3 day. We get into all this game's noteworthy individual player performances, shedding some light on the Blue Jays players that deserve it...

Chris Bassitt was frustrated when speaking to the media about the last game of the season for the Toronto Blue Jays. Bassitt, who has been struggling over the last few weeks, spoke about how he felt about the possibility of the Blue Jays running with a bullpen game to end the season. Chris Bassitt would have five days of rest going into this game. We discuss what exactly was said to the media, Bas...

The Toronto Blue Jays have lost their fourth straight game to an AL East opponent, this one being to the Boston Red Sox, dropping game one 4-0. Chris Bassitt did not have his best stuff today. He had SEVEN walks in this start over four and a third innings. That is the highest walk total of his career. Considering Chris Bassitt has not had a sharp September, we decided to break down the cause of hi...

The Toronto Blue Jays get swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in their last road series of the year. The Blue Jays decided to fully commit to tanking, now sitting 10 games back from being .500. Vladimir Guerrero Jr continued to put together one of the best seasons of his career, putting together back-to-back games with three hits gathering seven over the three-game stretch. A huge first was reached this w...

The Toronto Blue Jays win the last game of their series against the Texas Rangers 4-0. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 29th and 30th home run of the season in this game, making him the only Blue Jay ever to have three years with at least 30 home runs in three seasons while being age 25 or younger. This effort was vital to a Blue Jays win, as the only other offense in the game came from a sacrifice f...