Blue Bird Banter

Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images Three games left. The Marlins have a former prospect playing against them tonight. Griffin Conine, who went to the Marlins in exchange for Jonathan Villar (who I totally forgot was a Blue Jays, and with good reason). Conine has played in 27 games with a .246/.316/406 with 2 home runs. I’m liking Barger at third. And Clase has been one of … [Read more...] about Game #160 GameThread: Marlins @ Jays

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images Happy Friday. Tonight, we have Jose Berrios (16-10, 3.38) going against Adam Oller (1-4, 5.06) and the Marlins. I’m going to miss out. I’m going to a men’s night out, scotch tasting, cigars, and everything good for you. There isn’t much news for Jays today. Over in the Athletic, Jim Bowden has the Jays number five on his biggest … [Read more...] about Friday Bantering: Bits of Jays Stuff

Tom Szczerbowski-Imagn Images And Len Matuszek, Jason Phillips and Matt Shoemaker Jon Rauch turns 46 today. Rauch was our closer for the 2011 season. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the best of years. He had a 4.85 ERA and 11 saves (5 blown saves) in 53 games. He gave up 11 home runs in 52 innings. He had 14 walks and 36 strikeouts in 52 innings—not the strikeout numbers … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Jon Rauch

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images The Jays got their seventh win of September last night. After a very good August, I was hopeful about next season. This month makes me think we’ll be lucky not to be worse next year. But I’m willing to watch what they do this winter. There isn’t much for Jays’ news this morning; we haven’t even heard about today’s change in the back of the … [Read more...] about Off-Day Bantering

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images Settle for staving off the sweep despite outscoring 12-11 in aggregate Red Sox 1 at Blue Jays 6 On September 28, 1986, the Boston Red Sox hammered the Toronto Blue Jays 12-3 at Fenway, jumping all over a n undistinguished rookie starter by the name of Duane Ward to eliminate the Jays from postseason contention and clinch the division title on … [Read more...] about Jays Out-Clase Red Sox 6-1