Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The Jays have made another waiver claim, picking up 26-year-old right-handed pitcher Nick Robertson from the Cardinals (says @Adams_Steve on Twitter). He’s thrown 34.2 innings in the majors over the past two seasons with a 6.49 ERA and has two option years left. He hasn’t been any better in Triple-A this year, with a 7.27 ERA, between the … [Read more...] about Jays Claim Nick Robertson From Angels
Jays Claim Heineman
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
Who’s Hot, Who’s Cold: Blue Jays Pitchers
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
Jays Finish Sweep of Cardinals
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
Game #150 GameThread: Cardinals @ Jays
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