Blue Bird Banter

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports There isn’t much baseball news at the moment. No word from the players or owners about movement on getting towards a deal. The world is more interested with more important things at the moment. Baseball America has a list of the Blue Jays minor leagues who were released the other day: 1B: Christian Williams, Jake Brodt, Kacy Clemens, Pedro … [Read more...] about Tuesday Bantering: Very little Jays news

John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports The negotiations through the press continues. The MLB is proposing a 50ish game season, going with the pro-rated pay that was agreed to in March. It seems like the idea is to get the total pay out of salaries to be about what they offered with the 80 game schedule idea that suggested before. 50 games is pretty short. I’d prefer, if they … [Read more...] about MLB Proposes Shorter Season

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Blue Jays 3 Cardinals 2 So there was good news and bad news. The good news is the win. The bad news, Hyun-Jin Ryu, making his first start after being on the IL for two weeks, came out of the game before the bottom of the sixth inning with an undisclosed injury. No word on how long he’ll be out. Ryu pitched 5 innings, allowed 5 hits, 2 earned, 1 … [Read more...] about OOTP Season Sim Game 61: Jays beat Cardinals

John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports Happy Monday. The Blue Jays put out a statement. I do like the line “We’ve been searching for the right words and struggled to find them.” I think we can relate to that. There really aren’t words. But there are good moments: Police marching with protesters, police ‘taking a knee’. Things like that give me hope. That hope gets tested when … [Read more...] about Monday Bantering: Players make an offer to start season, and other bits of new

Photo by MLB via Getty Images 28 Years Ago Today Devon White led off with a home run and then hit a home run in extra innings, scoring the game-winning run. That has only happened six times in MLB history. The extra-inning home run was an inside the park homer. Devon could fly. In the game, played at the wondrous thing called the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. If you don’t … [Read more...] about Today in Jays History: Devon White homers to leadoff game and homers in extras

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports I’m a day behind, this is Saturday’s game, following the double-header on Friday. Both teams pitching staffs were in disarray. I’ll catch up tonight. The Orioles made a roster move, bringing up pitcher Paul Fry from Triple-A and sending pitcher Bruce Zimmerman down. I figured the Jays should make a move to bring up a rested arm but they didn’t. … [Read more...] about OOTP Season Sim Game 59: Jays Score 24, Beat Orioles

Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY Sports There were bits of Sim World news. After the game Hyun-Jin Ryu was activated from the IL and Brian Moran was sent to the Fisher Cats. And they made a number of minor league moves: Cullen Large promoted from AA to AAA. He was hitting .260/.391/.384 at New Hampshire. Logan Warmoth promoted from Dunedin to New Hampshire. He was hitting … [Read more...] about OOTP Season Sim Game 60: Jays complete four game sweep of Orioles

Photo by Dave Sandford/Getty Images 13 Years Ago Today Roy Halladay won his 100th game. It was his 200th start for the Blue Jays. It was a 2-0 win over the White Sox. Doc went 7 innings, allowed 6 hits, no walks with 7 strikeouts. Casey Jansen pitched the 8th and Jeremy Accardo got the save pitching the ninth. Accardo had 30 saves that season. He never had more than 4 in any … [Read more...] about Today in Jays History: Halladay wins 100th game

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged in Blue Jays fans, and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts. Talks of the return of Major League Baseball have been nonstop over the last few weeks. While discussions have been contentious between owners and players, there are some topics that will … [Read more...] about Reacts: AL fans think NL should use the DH, NL fans don’t