Ben Revere 💥 Instant Impact 💥 Ben Revere hit .319 after the trade in 2015! #BlueJaysOnSN pic.twitter.com/FIKj7jeAQb — Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) April 15, 2020 I know the analytics don’t look kindly on Ben Revere types. Speedy, slap-hitting, walk-allergic players have a very slim margin of error. You pretty much have to be a .300+ hitter in order to be
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Josh Towers The running joke in my family is that I’m a huge athlete jinx. Look no further than my jersey collection to see why. Well this joke all began with my interaction with Josh Towers way back when. Back in the day, I had a grey Jays hat with the mid 2000’s “Angry Bird” logo. At one point it
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Well it’s week two (or three?) without baseball and I’m at wits end. This morning my buddy Blake sent me the following tweet: This got the blogging juices flowing. Starting today I’ll be blogging five random Blue Jays every Wednesday. To kick things off we have the pride of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Gustavo Chacin In my eyes, Chacin acts as a
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Ahhh, baseball season is upon us once again. With Major League Baseball clubs opening up their season’s this past Thursday, those of us on the bench figured it was time to dust off our crystal ball (or dartboard) and fire away with a blog packed full of a variety of our predictions for the upcoming season. What follows is a
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There’s no better way to take the wind out of your sails like a deflating 6-1 loss on Opening Day. A five run loss isn’t quite a complete demolition job by any means. But the fact that the Jays only mustered two hits while the Yankees wracked up 11 hits and 24 total bases makes me feel fortunate that they
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Last week the Jays made a couple of moves that gave off a flicker on heat in an otherwise dormant hot stove. First they signed 36 year old outfielder Curtis Granderson to a one year $5 mil deal and followed up that huge pickup by trading for Randal Grichuk by sending reliever Dominic Leon and prospect Connor Greene to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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A Josh Donaldson Contract Extension The Bringer of Rain is pretty much all but gone when his contract expires at the end of this season. That is if the Jays don’t trade him first. Considering it is the first time that the 2015 AL MVP will get to test unrestricted free agency, don’t expect Donaldson to come cheap. It has
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Breaking: Roy Halladay has died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida. He was 40. pic.twitter.com/DMRuAkTTOB — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 7, 2017 Wow this is a tough one. Just a complete gut punch. Here we had an athlete, role model and–to many–a hero. Without any warning at all Halladay is just gone. He is tragically leaving
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In a season mired by injuries that started off with a deflating and horrendous 2-11 start, the Toronto Blue Jays season of 2017 has felt like a constant, steep climb back to relevancy. With every game they’re trying to chip away and get back to where they’ve found themselves these past two exciting seasons: postseason contention. As the Blue Jays have
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Now I’ve taken some heat for my old Justin Smoak bashing ways. @twaind4 @benchlifesports https://t.co/sfLudLAnpQ — Blake Stepien (@BlakeStepien) June 7, 2017 Hand up I was wrong about Smoakie… He might actually be good pic.twitter.com/HlnhJ342Xi — Thomas Waind (@twaind4) June 7, 2017 I’m not going to sugar-coat it. I was wrong. But as a Jays fan first, and a former
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