Blue Bird Banter

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Only one of the four Wild Card series goes to three games. Tonight, the Mets and the Brewers play a winner-take-all game. It is a 7:00 Eastern start. Lineups: Today's Lineups METS BREWERS Francisco Lindor - SS Jackson Chourio - LF Mark Vientos - 3B Blake Perkins - CF Brandon Nimmo - LF William Contreras - DH Pete Alonso - … [Read more...] about OpenThread: Mets/Brewers Wild Card Game

John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images And Darren Fletcher and Junior Felix Dave Winfield turns 73 today. Winfield had a terrific 22-year MLB career, a Hall of Fame career, and that one season with the Blue Jays. 1992, at age 40, Dave signed with the Jays as a free agent. We had a pretty good team, but we were short a DH, and Winfield filled that role and did a great job, … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Dave Winfield

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images A look at José Berríos 2024 season Each year, I look at how each Jays player did during the season. This year, there will be a few guys who didn’t finish the season with the Jays. José Berríos came to us in a deadline trade in 2021. Top prospects Austin Martin and Simeon Woods Richardson went to the Twins. Both played most of this season in … [Read more...] about The Season That Was: José Berríos

Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images I truly hate press conferences with front-office people. They can’t say anything of value. But lets have an open thread for those watching. Not much came out of Mark Shapiro’s talk. I guess he told us Ross Atkins would be back next year, and he said, ‘Ross needs to be better, and I (Mark) need to be better.” He also said ‘if there was a … [Read more...] about OpenThread for Ross Atkins Press Conference

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images We have four games again today. There were some good games yesterday: Tigers 3 Astros 1 Skubal was terrific. Valdez wasn’t. The Astros scored their run in the ninth, and loaded the bases. They get three straight hits to start off the inning, scoring a run, with the tying run on first. And then they bunt? You have the pitcher in trouble, Yainer … [Read more...] about OpenThread: Wednesday’s Wild Card Games