Since arriving via free agency in 2021, George Springer has been the Toronto Blue Jays’ go-to leadoff hitter over the last four seasons, including ’24.
CJ Van Eyk dominates, and some more under the radar guys It was another typical week in the Blue Jays farm system, with Buffalo once again posting the lone winning week at 5-2 while Vancouver and Dunedin found themselves on opposite sides of close outcomes with Vancouver walking off two games while Dunedin was walked off three times.
The Toronto Blue Jays minor league affiliates last week combined to go 12-13 and combined to outscore their opponents 111-106. The Triple-A affiliate the Buffalo Bisons went 5-2 and outscored their opponent 42-26.
Roy Halladay would have turned 45 today. Roy was either the best or the second-best Blue Jays starter of all time, depending on who you ask, but there is no doubt he and Dave Stieb are the two best starters in our history.
As if there aren’t enough gadgets in Baseball Savant’s tool belt already, now there’s a new toy for baseball nerds to play with. MLB unveiled their Bat-Tracking Leaderboard yesterday, and many were quick to notice how the Toronto Blue Jays ranked against their competitors.
The Toronto Blue Jays Triple-A affiliate is a series against the Worcester Red Sox who are the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox and they took five of their seven games.
The Toronto Blue Jays bullpen has been a sore spot for the start of the 2024 campaign. They own a league-worst collective 5.04 ERA at the time of writing and have allowed 23 home runs on the year, sitting behind only Tampa Bay (25) at the bottom of the standings.
Daulton Varsho homered to tie the game in the eighth inning and knocked in the go-ahead run with a groundout in the 10th to lift the visiting Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night to begin a three-game series.
For the first time in May, the Blue Jays have won a series opener. On Monday, the Blue Jays headed to Baltimore to face the not-so-trash American League East birds, the Baltimore Orioles.
Blue Jays 3 Orioles 2 Another great start from Jose Berrios. 7 innings, just 3 hits against (two of them home runs), 1 walk and 4 strikeouts. He did allow a third home run, but Daulton Varsho pulled it back into the park.
The Orioles lead the American League with a 26-13 record, putting them half a game above the Yankees at the top of the AL East. Baltimore again looks like one of the best teams in the league and is trending toward buying at the deadline.
Thus far in the 2024 season, Toronto’s hitters (collectively) have been underwhelming. After the May 11 game against Minnesota, Toronto’s wRC+ was 99 (one percent below average, tied for MLB’s 17th-highest).
Undoubtedly, the Blue Jays front office is mentally haunted right now as the team struggles to perform offensively. The lack of offseason success and the delusional merry-go-round idea of the best player in baseball coming to Toronto are dawning harshly on the team’s lineup.
Prior to this weekend, the last time the Blue Jays concluded a series against the Twins, they entered an offseason filled with criticism and areas of need, among other things.
On Sunday afternoon, four teams were in action, with two teams winning and two teams losing. However, there were a fair share of home runs hit, which is always great!
Fans appreciated the effort Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made on Sunday to try turning a double play.
Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has improved his numbers in his last 12 games. He has been playing hot recently. At a time when the Blue Jays needed offense and production from their top players on the team, Vladdy has certainly stepped it up.
The Toronto Blue Jays hope to parlay a comeback victory Saturday into a series win over the visiting Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon. With a rare offensive outburst, the Blue Jays overcame a 7-1 deficit Saturday to beat the Twins 10-8.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was 4-for-5 with three RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a six-run deficit to defeat the visiting Minnesota Twins 10-8 on Saturday afternoon.
The Toronto Blue Jays have struggled as team with the bats early on in 2024, leading to an uninspiring 16-20 record, good for last in the AL East. Fangraphs ranks the Jays 22nd in the league in wRC+, at 95, and 24th in team batting average and slugging, at .226 and .360 respectively.
The Toronto Blue Jays have pulled off a notable reunion.
These three players need to get things going quickly before it's too late for their teams.
Here are three players who need to turn things around if the Blue Jays are going to turn things around in 2024.
The pitcher is set to make his return to the majors on Sunday.
The Blue Jays lost 9-3 to the Washington Nationals on Friday, their third consecutive loss and ninth in their last 12 games.
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