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

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays have developed a powerful new recruiting group: players’ daughters.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Trey Yesavage has come back down to earth to live with the rest of us. He’s back in baseball’s reality now. Yesavage’s debut was historic, a 22-year-old superstar who climbed from Single-A to the World Series in a single season, baffling hitters at every stop. He’d be

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Just as Ricky Tiedemann was building some momentum again in Spring Training, he has been shut down for the next week with left elbow soreness. The good news is that an initial MRI showed “nothing structural” in Tiedemann’s elbow, but the bad news is that we’re talking

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- One way or another, a gold medal from the World Baseball Classic should end up in the Blue Jays’ clubhouse four weeks from now. The Blue Jays are sending their entire infield to the WBC, including representatives for the three countries that have combined to win the

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Oh, so that’s what it could look like. Kazuma Okamoto’s first home run in a Blue Jays uniform was majestic, a 431-foot blast to dead center that the wind didn’t want to let go of in Toronto's 4-3 loss to New York on Monday. It was a

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- This time last spring, José Berríos already felt “doubt” in his mind on the mound. He didn’t feel right. On Monday afternoon, after throwing 2 2/3 innings in his spring debut, the Blue Jays' 4-3 loss to the Mets, Berríos cracked the door open a bit more

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- For three hours, baseball didn’t matter. Sunday morning was for hockey, the Blue Jays’ complex divided between Canadians, Americans and those who were just trying to figure out what all the fuss was about. Moments after Jack Hughes scored in overtime to win Team USA the gold

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Eric Lauer knows how to downshift from starting. A year ago, he did it admirably. This year, he hopes he won’t need to do it at all.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Offensive identities don’t come easily in baseball. Like a good nickname, they need to come naturally. You can’t just choose your own and force it. The 2025 Blue Jays found one. For the first time in years, you could watch a handful of games and describe exactly