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

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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 conversations we’re having around the Blue Jays’ farm system have shifted drastically over the past couple of years. In the years that have passed since Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette came up the ladder representing the next great hope in Toronto, this system had struggled

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- It feels like we’re entering an exciting new era of Canadian baseball, led by big league stars and waves of talent coming behind them.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Did we really expect Max Scherzer to ease into anything? Why would he start now?

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Mad Max is back. Max Scherzer and the Blue Jays have agreed to terms on a reunion for the 2026 season with a one-year, $3 million deal that the club made official on Monday.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Max Scherzer does not tiptoe quietly into anything. It always comes with a crash, a bang, a grunt and some colorful language. Monday morning in Dunedin, Scherzer was back on the mound throwing a bullpen for the Blue Jays while manager John Schneider, pitching coach Pete Walker

DUNEDIN -- The Blue Jays’ farm system is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do these days. Farm systems are ultimately meant to support the big-league roster, but that can happen in different ways. Developing potential superstars like Trey Yesavage is the obvious way to win, and Toronto’s player development

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- When the calendar flips to March, real baseball begins to creep over the horizon and each day begins to matter a bit more than the last. The Blue Jays’ roster is fairly set -- as many as 24 spots are easy to write in with pen --

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The budding friendship between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Kazuma Okamoto has been put on hold. The moment Guerrero rolls out of Dunedin Saturday night and heads to Miami, where he’ll join his Dominican teammates to prepare for the World Baseball Classic, Okamoto isn’t his Blue Jays teammate,

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Somewhere in that right arm of Dylan Cease, there’s a Cy Young Award. We know this already because we’ve seen it already. In 2022, only Justin Verlander’s remarkable season kept Cease from the American League Cy Young. If someone makes 32 starts in a season with one

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Good problems still need good answers. You can really never have enough starting pitching, as we’re reminded each spring, but the Blue Jays are chasing a World Series here, which requires more than a stacked staff. While Toronto could field nearly two full rotations following their agreement