Blue Jays Trio Makes World Series History

Highlights:

• The Toronto Blue Jays started Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, and Daulton Varsho in Game 1
  
• Per Elias via MLB’s Sarah Langs, it is the first time one team started three second-generation players in a World Series game
  
• Past teams have started two sons of major leaguers in a World Series game, but never three
  

It’s been hard to go an hour on the internet this week without seeing pictures of a little Vladimir Guerrero Jr. next to his Hall of Fame dad. The story of the chubby little three-year-old Vladdy in a full Montreal Expos uniform tipping his hat, just like his dad has been hard to miss. 

And as great of a storyline as that is, it’s not the only father-son story line to this 2025 World Series. 

Bo Bichette and Daulton Varsho also followed their fathers into the big leagues. 

Three sons of major leaguers on one World Series lineup card for the Toronto Blue Jays. Elias says it had never happened before. MLB’s stats guru Sarah Langs flagged it for everyone in real time. 

It is a neat slice of baseball history.

Second-generation MLB stars are not new. They have floated through the sport for as long as there have been kids shagging in batting practice with their fathers. 

The Dads

Vladimir Guerrero Sr. is obviously the most famous of the proud pops. He’s a Hall of Famer and a 2004 AL MVP. 

Dante Bichette was a four-time All-Star and a Colorado Rockies fixture, a middle-order hammer who finished second in the 1995 NL MVP vote. 

Gary Varsho carved out eight big-league seasons as a versatile outfielder, then spent years coaching and scouting—classic earn-your-keep baseball. 

Famous families first

Toronto is the first club to start three second-generation players in a World Series game, but obviously, the sons got there on their own. 

 Guerrero Jr. brings Hall of Fame lineage and middle-order weight. Bichette adds the bat to ball skill and gap power that made him the engine of this lineup all year. Varsho gives them the third strand, a plus defender with enough thump to change an inning. Put them together and you have a moment the sport had never recorded.