Blue Bird Banter

Toronto Blue Jays first round pick Jeff Hoffman delivers a pitch to the plate during the Florida State League game between the Tampa and the Dunedin Blue Jays at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium in Dunedin, Florida. | Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images With the ninth pick in the MLB Draft, the Blue Jays selected right-handed … [Read more...] about Blue Jays sign former first-round pick Jeff Hoffman

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images We thought we knew Bo Bichette. He was the guy who was going to give us an OPS+ in the 120s. He’d get 20 some home runs. Batting average in the .300 area. He’d play every day. Maybe not quite the defense we’d like, but there wouldn’t be much for surprises. There would be hot and cold stretches, but we knew the season would end in about … [Read more...] about Better know your Blue Jays 40-man: Bo Bichette

Photo by Kevin Sousa/Getty Images The Jays have avoided going arbitration with all their players. The last two were Alejandro Kirk who signed for $4.6 million and Vladimir Guerrero for $28.5 million. That doesn’t mean they can’t work out an extension with Vlad, but they won’t be going in front of an arbitrator. People were saying that if they went to arbitration, it … [Read more...] about Jays Avoid Arbitration With Kirk and Guerrero

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images This is good news. It won’t let me embed this for some reason, but here is the link. They do have to sign Vlad, the way this off-season has gone. Just get it done. … [Read more...] about Vlad To Get New Offer?

unless you like sweet corn, that is. Now who’s the crazy one? Not sure about the rest of you, but this is the most frustrating off season ever. All this waiting and hoping and nothing seems to be happening. It’d be easy to slide down the slippery slope to wanting team management’s livers on a plate with some fried onions and maybe some fava bea...wait...that’s just me. Never … [Read more...] about It’s Making Me Crazy