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Free Agent Poll: Edwin Díaz
It is snowing. Real snow. Thankfully I don’t have to leave the house for a couple of hours. I don’t know how it is anywhere else, but the drivers here have all summer to forget how to drive in the snow. Then the first snow of the year happens, and it is like we don’t […]
Rangers/Mets Trade: Semien for Nimmo
The Rangers and Mets made a big trade: The Rangers get Brandon Nimmo (plus $5 million). The Mets get Marcus Semien. Semien is 35 and has $72 million and 3 years left on his contract. Nimmo is 32 and has 5 years and is owed $101.25 million. Apparently the Mets want to improve their infield […]
Free Agent Poll: Ranger Suárez
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Clemens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. Ranger Suárez is number six on Keith Law’s list, number nine […]
Hall of Fame Poll: Ryan Braun
Next up on the list is Ryan Braun. It is his first time on the ballot. I was thinking I’d skip him, but he was a better player than I remembered. A career .296/358/.532 line with 352 home runs, 1154 RBI and a 47.2 bWAR in 14 seasons all with the Brewers. He was the […]
Season That Was: Nathan Lukes
2025 was Nathan Lukes first full season in the majors at age 30. He played 22 games for the Jays last year and 29 in 2023. He certainly put in the time in the minors. Nathan played 391 games in Triple A and 213 games in Double A, plus 124 games in A-ball. In Triple […]
Hall of Fame Poll: Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds is on the Contemporary Baseball Era ballot (or some title much like that).Barry was on the Writers’ ballot 10 times, reaching as high as 66.0% of the vote (he started at 36.2% his first time and steadily increased). And he was on the Veterans’ Committee ballot in 2023 (the year they voted Fred […]
Friday Bantering: Non-Tender Notes, Swanson Retires
Happy Friday. We brought our cat home from the vet hospital last night (after paying quite the ransom), and he seems almost 100% now, which is great considering he was at death’s door when we took him in. We have to give him special food now (special is code for very expensive) and we had […]
Free Agent Poll: Pete Alonso
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Cleens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. Both Keith Law and Ben Clemens have Pete Alonso at number […]
Happy Birthday Mark Eichhorn
Mark Eichhorn turns 65 today. The Blue Jays drafted him in the 2nd round, 30th overall, in the 1979 amateur draft, out of Cabrillo College, CA, where he played shortstop and pitched. Mark quickly rose through the Jays’ farm system and made seven starts for the Jays as a September call-up in 1982. Unfortunately, they […]
Hall of Fame Poll: Carlos Beltrán
This will be Carlos Beltrán’s fourth time on the Hall of Fame ballot. He’s gone from 46.5% to 57.1% to 70.3% in his first three shots. Carlos played for 20 seasons. In 2586 games, he hit .279/.350/.486 with 435 home runs, 1587 RBI, and 312 stolen bases. His 9,768 at-bats put him 39th all-time. He […]
Season That Was: Alejandro Kirk
After four full seasons (plus nine games), with the Blue Jays, we had some to realize the good bat/poor glove description that we had been given of Alejandro Kirk wasn’t accurate. He’s tremendous defensively. And his bat? That’s seen good times and bad. With the trade of Danny Jansen, at the deadline in 2024, Kirk […]
Free Agent Poll: Kyle Schwarber
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Cleens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. Kyle Schwarber is number 8 on Keith Law’s free agent list […]
A Continued Mea Culpa to Ross
This is the second part of my review of what went right for the Blue Jays over the past year, in an effort to learn why I was wrong in calling for a fresh start under a new front office. On Tuesday, I looked at the pre-2025 roster construction and last year’s draft. Today, I’m […]
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When you post on SB Nation, we don’t want you to miss all the conversations and responses that follow. So starting today, whenever a user replies to your comment or to your post on the Feed, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the page. And of course, this means that when […]
Free Agent Poll: Bo Bichette
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Clemens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. FanGraphs has Bo #8 in their top 50 prospect list. Keith […]
Hall of Fame Polls: Bobby Abreu
This is Bobby Abreu’s seventh time on the Hall of Fame ballot. He’s been very slowly building his numbers, but much too slowly to get to the 75% by his 10th and last chance. Last year 19.5% of Writers had him on their ballot. His first time, he was on 5.5% of the ballots. Abreu […]
Jays Bits: 40-Man Roster and Qualifying Offer Deadline
There’s a little bit of procedural news today. First, it was the deadline for players to officially accept or reject the qualifying offer. As expected, Bo Bichette has rejected the Jays’ offer. Bo is going to make a lot more than $22.025 million over a lot more than one year, so accepting the QO was […]
The Season That Was: George Springer
2024 was George Springer’s fourth season with the Blue Jays, after signing a six-year $150 million contract. And, ummm, it wasn’t a very good season. Since 2022 his bWAR had been falling, from 4.2 to 2.0 to 1.1. I’m probably wasn’t alone in thinking that he was aging out of where he could be a […]
A Mea Culpa for Ross
About 16 months ago, I wrote a post arguing that the current Blue Jays roster had likely hit the end of its road, and that they needed at least a soft reboot. Specifically, I argued that that would involve punting the 2025 season and retooling with an eye on 2026, and that in order to […]
Jays Outright Nick Sandlin
Programing note off the top, there might not be the usual level of content over the next few days. One of our cats is not well. I ended up taking him to the pet hospital in the early hours this morning. The cat is going to be staying there for, likely, three days. I should […]
The season that was: Ernie Clement
Ernie Clement was picked up as a free agent signing in March of 2023, after his release by the A’s earlier that month. I wasn’t thrilled with taking a castoff of the A’s (one who only played 6 games for one of the worst teams in baseball). It wasn’t like we didn’t already have a […]
Free Agent Poll: Cody Bellinger
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Clemens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. Today’s subject is Cody Bellinger. Keith Law has Bellinger as his […]
The Season That Was: Addison Barger
Addison Barger played in 69 games for the Blue Jays last year. It wasn’t totally successful, hitting .197/.250/.351 with 7 home runs. Before the season, he was number three on our top prospect list. Tom wrote: Barger is listed at 6’0” and 210lbs, and looks as physical as that suggests. He’s added over 50lbs since […]
Free Agent Poll: Edwin Díaz
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Clemens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. I’m skipping a few to get to Edwin Diaz, because, when […]
Free Agent Poll: Framber Valdez
We’ve been doing this for several years now. We reviewed some of the top free agents, as rated by Keith Law in The Athletic and Ben Clemens at FanGraphs, using the contracts FanGraphs suggests they will receive, and asked if we should sign them. Ben Clemens (no “t”) has Framber Valdez his number 4 free […]
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