BALTIMORE -- When the sky is falling, someone needs to catch it. The Blue Jays opened a crucial week of games with a 3-2 win over the Orioles on Monday night in Baltimore, scraping past the new division kings. It’s only May 13, but at 19-22 and sitting in the

TORONTO -- Alek Manoah pitched like it was 2022. For seven innings in Sunday afternoon’s 5-1 loss to the Twins at Rogers Centre, the Blue Jays saw the old Manoah, the AL Cy Young finalist, proudly strutting around the mound after another strikeout. The right-hander gave Toronto seven innings of

TORONTO -- Cirque du Soleil is in town, but you might as well just come to the ballpark. Fans were treated to an early show by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre, when the Blue Jays’ first baseman leapt to snag a liner by Twins shortstop Carlos

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Break out the caps and gowns. It’s time for a whole bunch of graduations and an updated Top 100 Prospects list. Young players who began the 2024 season on a Major League Opening Day roster with zero MLB service time exhausted their prospect status Sunday by way of the 45-day

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TORONTO -- “The ball is round and it comes in a square box.” Vladimir Guerrero Jr. smiled through his words, evoking the old Spanish saying about how strange this game can be. That rings true in many ways for Guerrero and the Blue Jays right now, but it felt particularly

TORONTO -- Saad Zafar finds kindred admiration in a guy like Shohei Ohtani. As an all-rounder -- cricket’s version of a two-way player -- Zafar can relate better than most to the toils of high performance on both sides of the ball. That feat isn’t as rare in cricket as

TORONTO -- New-look lineup, same old story. The Blue Jays continued to shuffle things around on Friday night, pressing to find a way out of their persistent offensive woes. But the answers eluded them again, and another brilliant outing by one of their starters ended in a tough loss. -

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There has been no shortage of surprising developments in the 2024 season. Whether they are good or bad developments, or on the player or team-wide level, there are plenty of trends that have already shifted the arc of this season. With the help of each club's MLB.com beat writer, here

PHILADELPHIA -- The Blue Jays know there isn't one simple way to fix all of their problems -- and yes, that includes tweaking the lineup. Penciling Bo Bichette into the No. 6 spot instead of No. 3 (or No. 4 or No. 5) isn't going to fix everything on its

Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of

PHILADELPHIA -- The Blue Jays' early-season frustrations reached a boiling point in the fourth inning of Tuesday night's 10-1 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Moments after José Berríos served up a grand slam to Bryce Harper on a night when Berríos allowed more runs than he had

After a multi-season hiatus, Crooked Numbers returns with a heaping portion of Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. This edition, covering the start of the season through the end of April, has a disproportionate number of items from the Triple-A level. As for why that is, who knows? Maybe

WASHINGTON -- The Blue Jays aren’t asking Alek Manoah for much. Manoah hadn’t pitched in the big leagues for the Blue Jays since Aug. 10, 2023, and there have been moments since when it felt like we wouldn’t see him again in this uniform. The past year-plus has been so

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WASHINGTON -- Early Saturday, a songbird sang a prophecy. A Blue Jays hitter, making the long walk down the hallway from their clubhouse in Washington to the batting cages, passed by manager John Schneider’s office midway through crooning a verse from “Down With The Sickness,” the 2000 hit by Disturbed

WASHINGTON -- The tone just shifted. For five weeks, you’ve heard encores of 2023 catchphrases as manager John Schneider and the Blue Jays explained a sluggish offense. "This will turn around soon." "It’s going to come." "It’s just a matter of time." "Don’t worry about a thing, 'cause every little

One down, five (and change) to go. With April comfortably in the rearview mirror, it's time to hand out the first round of monthly awards for the 2024 Major League Baseball season. Here are the eight stars -- household names and new phenoms alike -- receiving honors for their performance

For Brian Serven, playing on the same field as Andrew Bash is “as close as you can get to playing with your brother.” Serven and Bash, who are teammates on the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, aren’t technically kin. But they’ve known each other for so long, they might as well be.