ARLINGTON -- Standing beneath a palm tree in the middle of March, Bowden Francis knew something we didn’t. All spring, Francis was caught between the rotation and the bullpen. The daily conversation rested on his velocity, which tended to look great in the early innings but faded as the game

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Way back in early April, we published our first Hitter Power Rankings of 2024. A lot -- but certainly not everything -- has changed since then. There have been injuries, slumps, hot streaks and resurgences, each exerting their influence on the results of this poll. A dozen editions later, here

The 2024 Minor League regular season comes to a full close this week when Triple-A play concludes Sunday. Double-A, High-A and Single-A postseasons are well underway, and the Northwest League has already crowned a champion. This is typically a time when baseball honors its standout performers from the year that

ARLINGTON -- Something about the Blue Jays felt incomplete without Bo Bichette. Something about Bo Bichette felt incomplete without baseball. A few hours before Bichette went 2-for-5 with an RBI in the Blue Jays’ 13-8 loss to the Rangers -- his first big league game in nearly two months --

ARLINGTON -- For the past week, Daulton Varsho has been day to day with a nagging shoulder issue. That just took a turn. Varsho will undergo rotator cuff surgery soon to repair his right shoulder, Blue Jays manager John Schneider said Tuesday, which ends his 2024 season on a worrying

TORONTO -- Before we could set the bar for what “success” looked like for Yariel Rodríguez in the big leagues, we first had to figure out who he is. There weren’t many answers when he walked into Dunedin, Fla., for the first time in February, the closest thing to a

With the regular season winding down, our panel of MLB.com experts convened once again to vote on which players they think will make up the All-MLB Team presented by MGM Rewards at the end of the campaign. As usual, there’s no shortage of deserving candidates for the prestigious honor, which

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TORONTO -- Finally, Davis Schneider's drought is over. Schneider has spent the past four months searching for himself. It all happened so suddenly, his fall from being one of the Blue Jays’ most productive hitters to a slump that’s threatened his place in the big leagues, but there’s a reason

TORONTO -- The Blue Jays are keeping the door cracked open to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. playing third base, the position he’s loved, lost and has finally come back to. Friday’s 4-3 walk-off win over the Cardinals, with Alejandro Kirk playing the hero in the bottom of the 11th, was Guerrero’s

The Roberto Clemente Award, considered baseball's most prestigious individual honor for Major Leaguers, annually recognizes the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.

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TORONTO -- Bowden Francis, meet Dave Stieb. Stieb still stands alone on the mountaintop, the only pitcher in Blue Jays history to throw a no-hitter, but another near miss has left Francis standing on rare ground that only Stieb has known.

We love the Arizona Fall League and can't wait to see several of baseball's best prospects face off against each other. The 30-game schedule begins Oct. 7, with the Fall Stars Game slated for Nov. 9 and the championship game for Nov. 16. Since the developmental circuit began play in

TORONTO -- The IL is no place for Bo Bichette. He needs wide-open spaces, a ballgame each night and 10,000 ground balls in the afternoon. Bichette’s return won’t matter much to the Blue Jays’ record, which has long been an afterthought. Perhaps he finishes the season batting .230 instead of

TORONTO -- John Gibbons knows how it feels to sit in John Schneider’s chair. He has been burned by and tested the limits of its recline feature, left it and come home to it again. In town Monday as the Mets’ bench coach, Gibbons looked just as comfortable in the

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ATLANTA -- Toronto may have dropped its weekend series against the Braves at Truist Park, but starting pitcher Yariel Rodríguez had a solid outing in his 18th MLB start. Though the Blue Jays lost Sunday’s rubber match 4-3 in 11 innings, Rodríguez kept his squad in the game against NL

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ATLANTA -- Blue Jays rookie Spencer Horwitz had a field day against another rookie who shares the same first name. Horwitz tallied three RBIs on three extra-base hits -- two solo homers and an RBI double -- against Braves starting pitcher Spencer Schwellenbach in Toronto’s 9-5 win at Truist Park

Welcome to Crooked Numbers, a monthly column dedicated to Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. The edition, rounding up the month of August, features RBI explosions, epic sweeps, same-named individuals and, of course, much more. Keeping track of this type of thing is a team effort, so get in