Blue Jays built to win in future, not now
There have been no shortage of sleepless nights in this Blue Jays season going nowhere with the ongoing conversation about the status of manager John Gibbons and pitching coach Pete Walker leading to...
View ArticleFitting that Bautista plays hero for Blue Jays (Toronto Blue Jays)
(Source: Toronto Blue Jays) Bautista played with toughness and pride during the lean times. He produced, too, establishing himself as one of the best and most respected players in baseball. So how...
View Article2015 shaping up to be an awards show for Blue Jays
Don’t engrave your awards before they have been presented ... Or something along those lines. In a memorable season where Josh Donaldson is the fave to win the American League MVP, lefty David Price is...
View ArticleBased on what we've seen, Jays letdown seems inevitable
The kid in the Blue Jays golf shirt, one of the many stadium workers milling about in the early evening, walked past his boss on the lower level of Rogers Centre, turned rather hopefully and said:...
View ArticleSimmons: The best Gibbons the Jays have seen
All they had to do was win. That’s really all that mattered. Staying alive. Coming home for Game 5. Coming all the way back from being down two games. The rest? It’s just window dressing. It didn’t...
View ArticleJays' Shapiro plays it safe at unveiling press conference
You can listen to his words, discuss them, debate them, analyze in any way you want, but in truth, the only thing that matters is what Mark Sharpiro does, not what he says. He didn’t win his...
View ArticlePutting too much pressure on Jays' Stroman isn’t fair
Don’t get them wrong. Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos and manager John Gibbons are thrilled that pitcher Marcus Stroman is almost set to return. On the other hand, both are a bit wary of the hype...
View ArticleTime for Blue Jays ace David Price to get it right
The Blue Jays have not misused or abused David Price. If anything, up until now, up until this hold-your-breath elimination game Friday night, they — you — have every right to be disappointed in Price....
View ArticleBlue Jays turn to Stroman in deciding Game 5 against Rangers
The Toronto Blue Jays stacked a pair of former Cy Young Award winners to prolong their stay in the AL Division Series. For the deciding Game 5, they'll turn to a starter who was once expected to miss...
View ArticleBlue Jays' magical 2015 run comes to end
In a fitting but unfortunate way, it ended with Josh Donaldson at the plate. This magical Blue Jays season. These wondrous last three months. The MVP trying to be MVP again. The kid closer trying to be...
View ArticleJays couldn't have done it without Beeston, Anthopoulos
It was about a year ago, before the pennant race, before there were celebrations of any kind, before the World Series was ever a topic of realistic conversation, that Edward Rogers and friends clumsily...
View ArticleWin or lose, Game 5 will be historic for Toronto, Jays
Marv Levy used to walk around the locker room of the Buffalo Bills with a smile and say the same thing over and over again: “Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?” The smiling kid...
View ArticleAlex Anthopoulos adds to hardware with George Gross Award for Toronto Sun...
Any talk of the afternoon in Baltimore still makes Alex Anthopoulos blush. He had it planned out, as he does most things. How he would sit in the stands at Camden Yards, surrounded by his closest...
View ArticleDonaldson ready for new chapter with Blue Jays
Share PhotoReddit✉ TorToronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey stretches during a drill at baseball spring training in Dunedin, Fla., on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,...
View ArticleJays subplots already taking centre stage in Toronto
The season of the meandering Blue Jays subplots has already begun. Ownership, in its winter awkwardness, not only tripped over itself in trying to replace Paul Beeston as club president, but proved...
View ArticleBlue Jays gained vital experience in 2015
ARLINGTON -- This was playoff baseball at its teeth-grinding best. One team jumps to a lead, and then the other claws back into it, refusing to give in or go away. This is the kind of game the Toronto...
View ArticleSIMMONS: A Blue Jays season to remember, cherish
What a Jays season - cherish it This has normally been the day to say goodbye. To shake a hand, ask for an off-season phone number, talk about vacation plans. The last home game of a long baseball...
View ArticleSIMMONS: Blue Jays' big boppers go silent at worst possible time
Somewhere in time, everything changed for the Blue Jays. It’s hard to know how. It’s even harder to explain why. The Jays stopped hitting. At times they couldn’t make defensive plays. Through 27...
View ArticleBlue Jays may have found themselves (Toronto Blue Jays)
(Source: Toronto Blue Jays) • Shop for official Blue Jays postseason gear Down 0-2 in a best-of-five American League Division Series, the Blue Jays made a stand of their own by defeating the Texas...
View ArticleCan Blue Jays overcome postseason learning curve in time?
For more than two months, the Blue Jays — and especially their fans — forgot what the crushing solemnity of losing felt like. Oh, they lost games during that epic 60-some game run down the stretch, but...
View ArticleCan Jays overcome postseason learning curve in time?
For more than two months, the Blue Jays — and especially their fans — forgot what the crushing solemnity of losing felt like. Oh, they lost games during that epic 60-some game run down the stretch, but...
View ArticleBlue Jays gained vital experience in 2015 (MLB - Major League Baseball)
(Source: MLB - Major League Baseball) They did win this one, defeating the Texas Rangers, 5-3, on Friday afternoon at Globe Life Park to take a 2-0 lead in a best-of-five American League Division...
View ArticleOver it: Blue Jays fans not missing David Price these days
Remember when David Price was the shiniest object in the baseball firmament? When nothing else, or no one else would do? When seven years and $210 million of somebody else’s money seemed like just the...
View ArticleBlue Jays showing they just might be for real
The Jays and their fans have passed this way before. Wasn’t it only a year ago that a big May-June winning streak catapulted the Jays into the AL East lead with visions of a return to the playoffs...
View ArticleGibbon's will continue to manage the Jays his way
John Gibbons has his team one win away from its first post-season series victory in 22 years. In between that last post-season celebration and the potential next one tonight, managers with more...
View ArticleBlue Jays' Tulowitzki still a force
It hasn’t been easy for Troy Tulowitzki. Playing hurt. Willing his way through the playoffs with a cracked shoulder not completely healed. Still adjusting to the American League. Trying to be the...
View ArticlePleasant surprises dot Blue Jays lineup
Tony LaCava is standing along the third-base line watching batting practice on the day before the American League Championship Series, trying to explain the unexplainable of this miraculous Blue Jays...
View ArticleJays' 2015 mantra: 'Just win, baby'
For the Blue Jays, as they embark on their 39th season, it has come to this: Win, or else. Everybody in the organization knows it, understands it, feels it, wants it. Whether it’s fair or not is...
View ArticleJays' Martin got his team going in a most unusual manner
Late in the afternoon, Russell Martin walked through the Blue Jays clubhouse, his head looking down, his expression seemingly angry, his body language foreboding. “Media,” he said aloud to no one in...
View ArticleSolid starting pitching a luxury Blue Jays have over Indians
Over the course of a 162-game regular season, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of starting pitching depth. Up to this point in the Blue Jays’ playoff run, however, the strength of their...
View ArticleSIMMONS: Gibbons takes Donaldson out of the game - again
Sparky Anderson used to quietly complain that the hardest thing in baseball was to remove Jack Morris from a game. He hated almost everything about it. The slow walk to the mound. The cold stare he got...
View ArticleHomegrown pitching an overlooked story from Game 5
If you saw that game played with the soccer fans pelting the Rogers Centre turf on Thursday you saw a few things: — The Texas Rangers take the lead when Russell Martin attempted to throw the ball back...
View ArticleBautista, full of swagger, arrogance, needs to produce
From beneath the microscope that is playoff baseball, the many images of Jose Bautista are daunting and contradictory. There may be no player in baseball more despised — not necessarily by fans but by...
View ArticleBlue Jays have no reason to hang their heads (MLB - Major League Baseball)
(Source: MLB - Major League Baseball) Some of the Blue Jays lingered in the visitors' dugout at Kauffman Stadium to watch the Royals celebrate winning a second straight AL pennant. That image will be...
View ArticleFitting that Bautista plays hero for Blue Jays (MLB - Major League Baseball)
(Source: MLB - Major League Baseball) Bautista played with toughness and pride during the lean times. He produced, too, establishing himself as one of the best and most respected players in baseball....
View ArticleBlue Jays vs. Royals: 15 things to know
The Blue Jays bandwagon is about as crammed as a rush-hour subway at Bloor station these days. Rogers Sportsnet reported Thursday that a whopping average of 4.8 million viewers (a network record) tuned...
View ArticleBlue Jays have no reason to hang their heads (Toronto Blue Jays)
(Source: Toronto Blue Jays) Some of the Blue Jays lingered in the visitors' dugout at Kauffman Stadium to watch the Royals celebrate winning a second straight AL pennant. That image will be burned into...
View ArticleBlue Jays' Marcus Stroman 'extremely confident' heading into wild card...
Shortly after being announced as the arm the Blue Jays will ride with their playoff lives on the line, Marcus Stroman walked to the Rogers Centre podium on Monday afternoon the same way he carries...
View ArticleRussell Martin's pre-game petulance worked for Jays
Late in the afternoon, Russell Martin walked through the Blue Jays clubhouse his head looking down, his expression seemingly angry, his body language foreboding. “Media,” he said aloud to no one in...
View ArticleDon't be surprised if Jays-Orioles wild card is a slugfest
There was a time this season — and both the Blue Jays and Orioles can remember it well — that both were the heavy-hitting beasts of the AL East. It wasn’t the case in September, however, when both...
View ArticleBlue Jays awaken a sleeping giant
All season long, they had a hit for every occasion. A bloop, a blast, a seeing-eye single, two more bombs, a ball off the wall and then a little dribbler down the line. Whatever it took. In one...
View ArticlePrice's uncharacteristic outing leads to crushing Game 1 loss
David Price stood in the middle of the Blue Jays clubhouse, his back against a wall, his eyes large and sad, his words spoken slowly, his explanations as puzzling to him as they are to the rest of...
View ArticleBlue Jays top Rangers to force decisive Game 5
Given up for dead after losing their first two playoff games at home, the Blue Jays have pushed this American League Division Series to the limit with a two-game sweep of the Rangers in Texas, capped...
View ArticleStroman defies odds, set for Game 5 start (MLB - Major League Baseball)
(Source: MLB - Major League Baseball) • Shop for Blue Jays postseason gear That was a dark day for the 24-year-old, who was expected to be Toronto's Opening Day starter and the anchor in its rotation....
View ArticleStroman to pitch Game 2 'with a lot of hate and anger'
When you watch Marcus Stroman on the mound at the Rogers Centre on Friday afternoon, smiling and smacking his gum like an excited cub scout, remember, he’s full of anger and hate. Hard to believe, we...
View ArticleToronto Blue Jays turn to Marcus Stroman in deciding Game 5 against Rangers
TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays stacked a pair of former Cy Young Award winners to prolong their stay in the AL Division Series. For the deciding Game 5, they’ll turn to a starter who was once expected...
View ArticleToo many ways to describe almost improbable Blue Jays victory
They stood screaming and spraying and jumping from atop a table in the Blue Jays clubhouse, Marcus Stroman beside Kevin Pillar beside Aaron Sanchez beside David Price beside Mark Buehrle and, in the...
View ArticleDonaldson leads powerful Blue Jays into ALDS
After he acquired Josh Donaldson last winter, Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos was concerned that his new third baseman might try to swing for the fences too much in his new hitter-friendly...
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