Blue Bird Banter

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports The Jays have claimed Tyler Heineman off waivers from the Red Sox. Heineman was up and down with the Blue Jays a couple of times last year. He hit .276/.432/.379 in 37 plate appearances with the Jays. In his five-year MLB career, he’s played in 106 games and has a .216/.297/.280 batting line. He had 3 PA with the Red Sox this year. … [Read more...] about Jays Claim Heineman

Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images Instead of doing two weeks for the pitchers, I’m going to do four weeks cause two weeks isn’t much of a sample size for pitching. Over the past four weeks, the Jays were 13-12 with a 3.27 ERA. Hot Bowden Francis: 3-1 with a 1.25 ERA in 5 starts. In 36 innings, batters hit .101/.158/.210 with 4 home runs, 4 walks and 31 strikeouts. All 6 … [Read more...] about Who’s Hot, Who’s Cold: Blue Jays Pitchers

The winning run. | Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images Cardinals 2 Blue Jays 3 We got another nice start from Yariel Rodríguez. Just 4.1 innings. He started the fifth by giving up a hard line drive single, a deep fly out, and then a hard-hit RBI double, which Nathan Lukes almost caught at the wall. He was only at 62 pitches, but he looked done to me. Ryan Yarbrough got out of … [Read more...] about Jays Finish Sweep of Cardinals

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images Thirteen games left in this mess of a season. And it is Roberto Clemente Day in the MLB. Clemente died on New Years Eve 1972 in a plane crash. He was delivering aid packages to Managua, Nicaragua, which had a major earthquake just before Christmas. Clemente found out that the Nicarguan government were blocking aid to the area (stealing it for … [Read more...] about Game #150 GameThread: Cardinals @ Jays

John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images Yesterday’s game was a lot of fun. We should try winning more often. Varsho is day-to-day with a sore shoulder; today, we have Lukes in CF and Loperfido in left. Today’s lineup. Wagner gets a day off, Davis Schneider plays second and Vlad’s back at first. It had a day with the glove yesterday. I’m still more of a fan of him playing … [Read more...] about Game #149 GameThread: Cardinals @ Jays