PHOENIX -- Every time it feels like the Blue Jays have an opening to break through and change the energy around this brutal start to the 2026 season, something else happens. Jeff Hoffman surrendered a grand slam in the eighth inning of Saturday’s 6-2 loss, which is all Blue Jays

It's still too early to tell exactly how the 2026 season will play out, but every team has seen at least one key player or position group get off to a strong start. With the help of MLB.com's beat writers, here's one early-season development every club can have faith in.

The parallels between JoJo Parker and Arjun Nimmala are abundant. They were both drafted in the first round out of high school by the Blue Jays; they both possess plus power at the shortstop position; and, on Saturday, they both launched mammoth big flies.

PHOENIX -- Daulton Varsho was removed from Friday night’s game with left knee discomfort and remained out of the lineup Saturday, but the Blue Jays are optimistic that they’ve avoided anything more serious. Varsho was removed between the top and bottom of the third inning, but it wasn’t initially clear

PHOENIX -- There may well come a day when the Blue Jays, riding high in the middle of the season or in the thick of a postseason race, look back on these as “the bad days”. For now, they’re still in them.

PHOENIX -- You’ll have to wait another week to see Trey Yesavage back in the big leagues. Yesavage will make another rehab start Tuesday with Triple-A Buffalo, which will surely be his last one before rejoining the Blue Jays back in Toronto after their series on the West Coast against

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MILWAUKEE -- No, you didn’t just watch a replay of the last game. The Blue Jays' 2-1 loss Thursday at American Family Field was frustrating for its own reasons, even if it felt entirely too similar to the one the night before.

MILWAUKEE -- Blue Jays fans have been waiting for that next duo of top prospects. There may never be another era like “Vladdy and Bo” when those two came up through the system, but in JoJo Parker and Juan Sanchez, there’s something worth watching down in Single-A again. Sanchez has

MILWAUKEE -- While much of the attention has been on the upcoming return of Trey Yesavage, José Berríos is coming close behind. Berríos made his first rehab start Thursday night with Single-A Dunedin, but is a bit more stretched out than some starters are when they begin an assignment. He

MILWAUKEE -- It felt like a low-stakes playoff game in the middle of April, some well-pitched, airtight baseball that chugged along until someone finally blinked. The Blue Jays’ 2-1 loss will be hung on an ugly eighth inning where none of the bounces went their way, but the “1” in

MILWAUKEE -- Kazuma Okamoto is still in the early days of his transition to Major League Baseball, where every single thing is new. At each stadium the Blue Jays visit, it’s his first time there. Each city, each hotel, each restaurant and airport, it’s his first time. Just about every

Back in March, when we debuted our first Hitter Power Rankings of the year, there was one prevailing question. Who would take home the top spot: Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge? Our voters gave the slight edge to Ohtani. Now, though, we have a few weeks of results to factor

Sometimes, the easiest way a rookie position player can impact the Major League club upon his first callup is by playing high-quality defense, and there’s evidence that prospects are more defensively ready in the bigs than they’ve ever been before. To wit, there have been 19 total rookies who have

JoJo Parker, the No. 8 pick from the 2025 Draft, only just made his professional debut when the 2026 season started earlier this month. He’s already making big waves. The Blue Jays’ No. 2 prospect and MLB Pipeline's No. 40 absolutely clobbered his first professional home run for Single-A Dunedin

MILWAUKEE -- Outside, the game began with a tornado warning and ended with a flash flood warning. Inside the dry confines of American Family Field, lightning flashing through the windows all night long, the Blue Jays weathered their own storm and survived.

MILWAUKEE -- It feels like everything is falling into place for Davis Schneider. He keeps showing up as the right player in the right place at the right time.

The Blue Jays have looked to Kevin Gausman as a source of stability for years, but this might be as vital as he’s ever been for Toronto. The club’s rotation has been gutted, with Trey Yesavage, Shane Bieber, José Berríos and Cody Ponce all out. Key bats like Alejandro Kirk,

The Blue Jays and White Sox came together on an early-season trade Monday, the clubs announced. Chicago is sending infielder Lenyn Sosa to Toronto in exchange for 18-year-old outfielder Jordan Rich and a player to be named later or cash. Sosa, 26, had his best season in 2025, slashing .264/.293/.434

TORONTO -- Remember early March? It was only a few decades ago. Max Scherzer had just signed back with the Blue Jays, and it wasn’t clear if there would even be a rotation spot for him. That was back when Trey Yesavage was still supposed to be ready for the

TORONTO -- Already with a full MLB rotation on the IL, the Blue Jays are unfortunately beginning to build out their IL’s lineup. George Springer is the latest name added to the list after CT scans on Saturday confirmed a fracture in his left big toe. Up in his place

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TORONTO -- Brandon Valenzuela has his first big moment in the big leagues, a rocket to right field that gave the Blue Jays the lead and Valenzuela his first career MLB home run. This is what Blue Jays baseball looks like when it’s all working, from down 4-0 to a