DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Canadian baseball has lost a broadcasting giant. Rodger Brulotte, one of the voices of Montreal Expos baseball alongside Jacques Doucet and later Denis Casavant, who went on to call Toronto Blue Jays games in French, has died. He was 79. Most recently, Brulotte and Casavant had been

The Blue Jays will host the A’s at Rogers Centre for Opening Day on March 27, a battle between one of baseball’s new powerhouses and a young club on the rise. There will be some celebrations to get out of the way first, as the Blue Jays will be raising

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Now that they’re all done jumping and screaming, trade talks have begun. Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman, who just pulled one of the most valuable Nick Kurtz baseball cards in circulation, wants to get the card back to the Athletics' young star.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays’ rotation keeps taking on water and the club keeps plugging holes, but there’s a limit to everything. Thursday brought the news that Trey Yesavage would open the season on the IL with a right shoulder impingement, joining José Berríos (right elbow stress fracture) and

DUNEDIN -- The hits just keep on coming to the Blue Jays’ rotation. Trey Yesavage, the breakout star of 2025 and an early favorite for the ‘26 AL Rookie of the Year Award, will begin the season on the IL. Yesavage is dealing with a right shoulder impingement, manager John

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- For decades, the Level of Excellence has represented the best of the Blue Jays. This year, that will be transformed into the Hall of Excellence, and it’s getting one new member. Buck Martinez will be the first person inducted into the Hall of Excellence in a ceremony

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DUNEDIN, Fla. -- You’ve already gotten a sneak peek at the future of the Blue Jays recently, with so many of their regulars off competing at the World Baseball Classic. Now, you’ll get to see how the Blue Jays’ best prospects stack up against the rest of baseball. Here’s what

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The bad news is that José Berríos has a stress fracture in his right elbow. The good news? That might sound scarier than it actually is. This diagnosis finally comes at the end of a frustrating process for Berríos, who only discovered there was inflammation in his

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Blue Jays camp feels whole again, now that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is home. Back from the World Baseball Classic, where his Dominican team was the life of the party until falling short in the semifinals, Guerrero brings back the realities of a new season with him. When

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- In his right hand, Kevin Gausman is holding a baseball card, looking at a skinny kid from half a lifetime ago. This is one of the very first cards of Gausman. It’s from a 2009 “USA Star Prospects” by Upper Deck, and an 18-year-old Gausman is leaning

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- To understand Dylan Cease, you must first understand The Genie. Cease is a collector, and with each year comes a new obsession. By the time you read this, he may have moved on to model trains or Nintendo games, but for now, he’s stuck on vintage tees.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays’ 2026 season will begin as it should, with Kevin Gausman on the mound. Gausman has been named the Blue Jays’ Opening Day starter, the third time he’s been given the honor but his first in Toronto. Entering the fifth and final year of his

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The best things happening to the Blue Jays aren’t happening in Dunedin. The World Baseball Classic is bringing out the biggest, brightest, loudest version of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and it’s only the middle of March. One of baseball’s greatest showmen is starting early.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Friday morning, Trey Yesavage walked back into the Blue Jays’ clubhouse holding a plaque. He’d just been named the Blue Jays’ 2025 Minor League Pitcher of the Year. It felt like watching the Academy Awards ceremony, when the nominees for Best Picture are announced and we’re left

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- José Berríos will travel to meet with Dr. Keith Meister on Tuesday, the next step after recent MRIs showed a new type of inflammation in his right elbow. This inflammation is different from what Berríos dealt with towards the end of the 2025 season, when he landed

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Depending on your passport, it’s been a tough spring for Canada versus the United States. Back in February at the Winter Olympics, the Canadian women’s hockey team lost the gold medal game to the United States, 2-1 in overtime. Three days later, the men’s team lost their

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Just when it felt like José Berríos was back to his old self, an MRI has thrown a wrench into those plans. Berríos was undergoing testing for insurance purposes, hoping to join Puerto Rico for the quarterfinal stage of the World Baseball Classic, but an MRI showed

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TAMPA -- We tend to talk about Eric Lauer in the abstract, always attached to some other player or some other idea. He’s become the Blue Jays’ great counterweight. The rotation gets healthy in 2025? Lauer to the bullpen. Sign Cody Ponce in the offseason? Lauer to the bullpen. Trey

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays’ bullpen is complicated. We’ll find out if that’s a good or a bad thing when the real games begin, but for now, it’s complicated. A year ago, the Blue Jays added aggressively, first with Jeff Hoffman as the new closer and later with Louis

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays have more big leaguers than roster spots, which is a fine place to start. Toronto’s rotation is extremely crowded, especially following the addition of Max Scherzer, who looks like he belongs. The position player group leans heavily towards outfielders, too, so manager John Schneider

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Each camp has its darling, a tradition stretching back a half-century in Dunedin. Some years, a star is born. Other years, fool’s gold is dug up from the dirt and soon forgotten. Addison Barger had his breakthrough spring coming up as a prospect that February and March

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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Typically, Spring Training buzz is reserved for the top prospects, the new guys, the players half Max Scherzer’s age. There’s never been anything typical about Scherzer, though, and the Blue Jays don’t need typical. This team doesn’t need average innings in a rotation spilling over with big