Toronto – Each year, when a new season starts to creep over the horizon, I think about Day 1 of Spring Training. The players will pour into the Blue Jays’ player development complex in Dunedin, Fla., with the same nervous excitement you once felt on the first day of school, only the new shoes and backpacks are replaced with new …
Ottawa – If there was a magic pill that could wipe the past week from memory, it would sell out in Canadian stores in a second. Shohei Ohtani to the Dodgers after a pursuit that brought the wildest dreams of Blue Jays fans to the brink of belief, only to end in heartbreak. Juan Soto to the Yankees, where he’ll …
Puerto Rico – José Berríos had already led his team onto the field at Estadio Roberto Clemente Walker on Saturday afternoon for the beginning of his first-ever celebrity softball game. Then, a loud roar off to the left of the home dugout shifted his focus. The noise was produced by a group of kids leaning over the wall down the …
NASHVILLE – Silence is golden and secrecy is sublime. Standing in the eye of the biggest, boldest pursuit in franchise history, the Blue Jays aren’t saying a word. Even the name “Shohei Ohtani” is spoken carefully, each syllable tiptoeing gently to the next. Don’t rock the boat. Don’t wake the baby. The secrecy with which baseball’s brightest star lives his …
TORONTO — Looking at a mound of puzzle pieces sprawled out on the table, the Blue Jays still have their entire offseason in front of them. A slow start to Hot Stove season promises that, when the tap turns on, news will gush out like a fire hose. The Blue Jays have some straightforward needs and grander matters of organizational …
TORONTO – Stop the count and pop the champagne, the Blue Jays are headed to Minneapolis. Toronto clinched its postseason spot late Saturday but saved the champagne celebration for after Game 162, and by then, the chaotic and complicated AL Wild Card race had finally been settled. With Toronto’s loss Sunday, 12-8 to Tampa Bay, and a Houston win, Toronto …
TORONTO -The sooner the Blue Jays pop champagne, the sooner they can put Kevin Gausman on ice. Tuesday evening’s 2-0 loss to the Yankees didn’t help either of those goals, even though Gausman, as he always does, held up his end of the bargain. The pitchers’ duel between Gausman and Michael King eventually broke away from the Blue Jays when Austin …
TORONTO – Two games in, the biggest series of the Blue Jays’ season isn’t feeling like it. Tuesday night’s 6-3 loss flipped the American League Wild Card standings yet again, sending Texas into second place with Toronto now a half-game back in the third spot. The Rangers also clinched the season series between these clubs, which could be a major hurdle for …
ST. PETERSBURG – The Blue Jays hope May 25 at Tropicana Field is the pivot point, the date they look back on four months from now and say, “That’s when it all turned around.” Thursday’s 6-3 loss to the Rays was uglier than the numbers suggest, with Opening Day starter Alek Manoah struggling yet again and the team behind him doing little to help. …
