BLUE JAYS RUMORS & GOSSIP

In the second game of their four-game series, the Charlotte Stone Crabs outslugged the Dunedin Blue Jays 13-12, walking off with two runs in the bottom of the 10th. The see-saw event saw the Stone Crabs rally back from a 8-3 deficit, only to give it back to the Blue Jays as Dunedin led 12-11 in the top of the 10th. But the Stone Crabs had one fight left in them and they made it count...

Guest Written by Brad Walchuk (@bwalchuk) A little while back, Nick Dika wrote one of those much-needed articles that are a pleasant distraction as a roller-coaster season feels like it’s getting away from you: a look at some of the finest facial hair in Blue Jays history. Of course, it was the mustaches – those of Jack Morris, Rance Muliniks, and Travis Snider (yeeesh!) �...

If the Jays sold on the season, what would teams be getting in Jose Bautista?

An at-bat by at-bat look at Vladito over a three-game series.

Blink and you may have missed it. I did. In the time it took to scan from one channel to the other, by the time I landed back on the Blue Jays game, all I caught was the huddle at home plate. I thought “something must’ve happened in a hurry” – and it did. The Blue Jays saved all their offense for the very end by walking off the Oakland Athletics 3-2 in very dramatic fashion...

Back-to-back homers extend Blue Jays' winning streak to three games.

Dan Shulman joined the Jeff Blair Show this morning to discuss if this will be Toronto Blue Jay’s pitcher Marco Estradas last start with the team and if Francisco Liriano has done enough in his last start to garner interest from other teams.

TORONTO (AP) — Justin Smoak hit a game-tying two-run homer in the ninth inning and Kendrys Morales followed with a game-winning blast as the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the struggling Oakland Athletics 3-2 on Wednesday night. It was the sixth time this season the Blue Jays have hit consecutive home runs. Smoak and Morales have been involved in each of the past three occasions...

This is part two of the Blue Jays deadline 2017 top-ten trade value series. The introduction, as well as the tenth through sixth most valuable, went up at BP Toronto yesterday. As a brief recap before, your tenth to sixth most valuable Blue Jays trade assets: #10: RHP Joe Biagini #9: 2B Devon Travis #8: 1B Justin Smoak #7: SS Bo Bichette #6: LHP J.A. Happ And now into the top five...

Contracts will ensure Martin, Tulowitzki are part of the process.

Shi Davidi joins Ben Ennis to discuss Josh Donaldson’s season and how the former MVP has had a tough time finding continued success in 2017.

John Gibbons talks with reporters about a disappointing end to a tough July road trip for the Toronto Blue Jays.

There’s been talk around the water cooler that the Chicago Cubs are interested in Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish. While that might still very well be the case, at least one report suggests Chicago is more interested in Rangers catcher Jonathan Lucroy.“According to a source, a key Rangers evaluator was watching the Triple-A affiliates of the Chicago Cubs, who have made at least...

The Toronto Blue Jays find themselves seven games under .500 and in last place in the American League East. It’s been a sorely disappointing season for a squad that won 89 games and earned a trip to the ALCS last season.Despite this, Toronto has not shown itself to be sellers heading up to the trade deadline later this month. Maybe the team is holding out hope that it can rebound...

Rougned Odor is perhaps Public Enemy No. 1 in Toronto, but some indications are that he actually almost became a Blue Jay.Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports reports Thursday that the Blue Jays attempted to trade for the Texas Rangers second baseman in the past, though it’s unclear if that was before or after his notorious fight with Jays slugger Jose Bautista.Per Heyman:Sources say that...

Coming off of the All-Star break, the Toronto Blue Jays only had three games this week, facing the Detroit Tigers in a weekend series in Detroit.  The Jays went 1-2, sandwiching a blow out in between two relatively well-played games.  Even though the Jays did go 1-2, they moved out of the cellar for the first time all year and into a fourth place tie with the Baltimore Orioles...

Monday’s game between the Red Sox and Blue Jays paused brieftly following a scary incident during involving home plate umpire Chris Segal.During the top of the first inning, Donaldson swung at an offering from Boston pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez and lost the grip on his bat. The bat went behind Donaldson and caught Segal squarely on the head, making a horrific sound. After going to...

A healthy Aaron Sanchez represents a real benefit for Toronto’s postseason odds. (Photo: Keith Allison)   At the beginning of the season, the Blue Jays were a clear playoff contender. In the American League, only Boston, Cleveland, and Houston had higher playoff odds than Toronto’s 52.1%. On June 1, those odds had dropped considerably, down to 36.3%, but were still near the...

Greetings on this baseball Monday! We open up the work week with a pair of aces in isolation as well as a really nice secondary duel on national television. Check ’em out! Aces in Isolation RHP Stephen Strasburg (WAS) versus Cincinnati RHP Scott FeldmanStrasburg took a line drive off the hip in his final start of the first half against the Braves, and was forced from the game in...

Vladimir Guerrero was one of the very best — and arguably the most entertaining — hitters in baseball over the last 20 years. The former Expos and Angels superstar cranked 449 home runs and put together a ridiculous .318/.379/.553 slash line over his 16-year MLB career (which came to an end in 2011). His absurd plate coverage and ability to crush pitches out of the strike zone...

Tampa Bay Rays’ first baseman Logan Morrison hit an impressive home run Sunday against the Angels, but what was perhaps even more impressive was his celebratory bat flip. Here’s video: Let’s see that in GIF form: Sadly for the Rays, Morrison’s homer wasn’t enough; they’d wind up losing 4-3. But that was his 26th of the year, which is already a single season career-high...

The Miami Marlins are in sell-now mode. On the market to be sold to the highest bidder, Miami might very well look to move some of its veterans between now and the July 31st trade deadline.While most of the talk has surrounded members of the team’s pitching staff, at least three other squads have inquired about former All-Star infielder Dee Gordon.“The Angels, Blue Jays and Royals...

The Blue Jays are not where they want to be in the standings. That much has to be acknowledged. While it’s long been understood that the American League East was again going to be a challenging division, the Jays have still been a disappointment, and it’s an open question whether the front office might elect to start selling in advance of this month’s trade deadline. The train...

Yankees rookie slugger Aaron Judge is out there breaking records on a daily basis, and sure enough, he tied Joe DiMaggio for another big one on Wednesday.Judge crushed a pitch from Marco Estrada in the fourth inning of the Jays-Yankees game, resulting in a two-run dinger — his 29th of the year. That tied him with DiMaggio for the most home runs in a season by a Yankees rookie,...

After aggressively buying at the 2015 trade deadline and being a bit more understated during the 2016 trade deadline, it appears the Toronto Blue Jays will be going in a different direction in 2017. According to a report from ESPN’s Buster Olney, the Jays seem to be ready to move into sell mode if the team doesn’t turn things around soon. After winning the AL East in 2015 and...