The Round-Up Kyle Lowry Toronto Raptors Jersey Raps cruising into the All-Star break @phillydip4 pic.twitter.com/qFO9NRz81M — Bench Life Sports (@benchlifesports) February 14, 2019 Every Raptor fan’s favourite fat-turned-slim point guard has come a long way since his first years in Toronto. In seven seasons with the Raptors Lowry has surpassed Damon Stoudemire, Muggsy Bogues and Jose Calderon to cement himself
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The Round Up I thought I would change it up a bit this week. With Christmas 5 days away I called for the jerseys of Christmas time: the ugly sweater. Now despite its name, there is nothing ugly about these sweaters. That's what she said pic.twitter.com/pWwV24tDWF — Thomas Waind (@twaind4) December 19, 2018 pic.twitter.com/vvrKSWXcnh — Cameron Burgess (@CameronBurgess) December 19,
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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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In The News Josh Donaldson leads AL 3B in All Star Ballot despite only playing 15 games. Should fans be able to vote/should we care that fans are able to vote? Cameron Burgess (CB): Not at all. All Stars should be determined by their play and by stats, not a popularity contest. Sure, Donaldson has been one of the best
Read moreLast year’s installment of my Blue Jays season primer was done through a “Plus Minus Predictions” feature. While the concept gave me good talking points to express my thoughts on the core of the Blue Jays roster, the conservative Steamer Fangraphs projections that I used left me making some pretty lame “cold takes” with every prediction given the “barring injury”
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Superlatives MVP: Josh Donaldson No surprise here. Donaldson has been the team’s MVP since he first stepped on the Rogers Center’s tire-rubber turf at the beginning of last season. He was the American League MVP in 2015 and has not missed a single beat this season. Josh has been the second-most valuable batter in the MLB based on Fangraphs’ Wins Above
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The 2016 season is coming in hot! I’ve already dusted off the old glove (and subsequently already thrown my arm out), read as much Blue Jays content as I can, and acquired a couple of tickets for April. The only thing keeping me from total baseball mode are those pesky 50-win Raptors. I am ready for a summer of Pillar web gems, Donaldson bombs,
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In the 2014 MLB off season, the Toronto Blue Jays and Alex Anthopoulos were making headlines as one of the MLB’s busiest teams. They traded for eventual MVP Josh Donaldson and signed Canadian Russell Martin to the largest contract the Jays had ever given to a position player. But at the time, fans and media were irate. The Jays were coming
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