Blue Bird Banter

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

Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images Robbie Ray turns 33 today. Ray came to the Jays in trade for Travis Bergen (who found his way back to us, but is out of baseball now) at the deadline in 2020. He wasn’t great down the stretch in 2020, with a 4.79 ERA in 5 games, 4 starts. He had a hard time finding the strike zone. He walked 14 in 20.2 innings, but he also had 25 strikeouts. … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Robbie Ray