Blue Bird Banter

Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images Part 1: The Current Situation For the past couple of seasons, I’ve represented our site at SB Nation’s off-season simulation, hosted by the guys from Royals Review. This year, due to some scheduling issues, the sim had to be cancelled. In lieu of my usual write-up, then, I thought I’d use my prep to walk through what I think the Jays could do … [Read more...] about Thinking Through the Blue Jays Off-season

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Everybody’s favourite baseball analyst, Buck Martinez, turns 76 today. Buck had a 17-season career as a catcher in the major leagues. 6 of those seasons were with the Blue Jays. He worked as the right-handed half of a very successful platoon pairing with Ernie Whitt. Buck was a good glove/bad bat, backup catcher for most of his career, … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Buck Martinez

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images We have used this idea for the last couple of years. The idea is to go through some of the top free agents, use the contract FanGraphs suggests they will get and have a poll asking if we would like to sign him for that amount. Ben Clemens at FanGraphs and Keith Law at the Athletic have Willy Adames in the second spot on their … [Read more...] about Free Agent Poll: Willy Adames

Photo by Abelimages/Getty Images Ricky Romero turns 40 today. Ricky was the Jays’ first-round pick in the first round of the 2005 draft (6th overall), out of California State University, Fullerton). As we all know, Troy Tulowitzki was the next pick by the Rockies. No one mentions that the Mariners used the third pick on Jeff Clement. Ricky didn’t burn it up on his trip … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Ricky Romero and Alejandro Kirk

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images Happy election day to those on the other side of the border. We used to say how great it was that Western countries could have an election and a change of government without a shot fired. Looking back at the last American one, it isn’t valid any longer. I’m wearing my Democracy in Action tee shirt, which shows a bunch of clowns in a … [Read more...] about Tuesday Bantering: Jays Stuff