WASHINGTON -- The Blue Jays aren’t asking Alek Manoah for much. Manoah hadn’t pitched in the big leagues for the Blue Jays since Aug. 10, 2023, and there have been moments since when it felt like we wouldn’t see him again in this uniform. The past year-plus has been so

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WASHINGTON -- Early Saturday, a songbird sang a prophecy. A Blue Jays hitter, making the long walk down the hallway from their clubhouse in Washington to the batting cages, passed by manager John Schneider’s office midway through crooning a verse from “Down With The Sickness,” the 2000 hit by Disturbed

WASHINGTON -- The tone just shifted. For five weeks, you’ve heard encores of 2023 catchphrases as manager John Schneider and the Blue Jays explained a sluggish offense. "This will turn around soon." "It’s going to come." "It’s just a matter of time." "Don’t worry about a thing, 'cause every little

One down, five (and change) to go. With April comfortably in the rearview mirror, it's time to hand out the first round of monthly awards for the 2024 Major League Baseball season. Here are the eight stars -- household names and new phenoms alike -- receiving honors for their performance

For Brian Serven, playing on the same field as Andrew Bash is “as close as you can get to playing with your brother.” Serven and Bash, who are teammates on the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, aren’t technically kin. But they’ve known each other for so long, they might as well be.

This story was excerpted from the Blue Jays Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. TORONTO -- Don Mattingly has never watched that episode of The Simpsons. He’s still having fun with it, though, autographing Simpsons-style images of himself

Pitchers are meant to be ahead of hitters. Sluggers need at-bats to get into the rhythm of the season, and that takes time. Or at least that’s how the popular belief goes. But some Minor League hitters are proving they don’t need time at all to come flying out of

You know it’s really Draft season when the first mock draft is out. Between now and July 14, when the 2024 Draft begins, Jim Callis and I will be providing prognostications of the first round on a fairly regular basis with the hope that our final mocks the night before

TORONTO -- They call it a quality start for a reason. When your starting pitcher delivers at least six innings pitched and three or fewer earned runs, that’s usually enough to win a ballgame. But on Wednesday against the Royals, Chris Bassitt’s quality outing didn’t cut it. Once again, the

TORONTO -- The Blue Jays are down another key arm. Right-hander Yariel Rodríguez, one of the club’s most interesting stories in 2024, was placed on the 15-day injured list with thoracic spine inflammation ahead of Toronto’s game against the Royals on Tuesday. In a corresponding move, reliever Zach Pop was

April is in the books, but there’s still plenty of baseball left to be played this season, and you can follow all the action on MLB.TV for a new reduced price. MLB.TV’s All Teams Yearly package, which enables you to stream every out-of-market game, live or on demand, on your

TORONTO -- At least this time the weather held. The Blue Jays got a longer look at Cole Ragans on Tuesday evening, five days after his first matchup against José Berríos was cut short by a thunderstorm in Kansas City. The results were eerily similar, though. Toronto’s offense struggled again,

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TORONTO -- Left-hander Brandon Barriera, the Blue Jays’ No. 4 overall prospect, underwent a combination Tommy John surgery and internal brace procedure on his throwing elbow, the club confirmed on Monday. The procedure addressed a Grade 2 UCL tear, said Barriera’s agent, Nate Heisler, on social media. The Blue Jays

TORONTO -- Justin Turner isn’t one to make a fuss. Tune in halfway through Turner’s media availability after the Blue Jays’ 6-5 win over the Royals on Monday night and you may not guess he’d just swatted two home runs at Rogers Centre. Soft-spoken and even-keeled, Turner doesn’t veer away

There's a longtime scout who likes to say, "The Draft is hard." The 2014 Draft was very hard. It's just one of three Drafts where the No. 1 overall pick finished his career without reaching the Majors, and the only one where neither of the top two selections made it.

TORONTO -- The Kevin Gausman effect. Facing the prospect of six straight losses and a sweep on their home turf, the Blue Jays needed their ace at his best on Sunday afternoon. Gausman delivered. The right-hander neutralized a Dodgers lineup that had haunted Toronto over the first two games of

TORONTO -- The Blue Jays' outfield came through in Sunday's 3-1 win at Rogers Centre over the Dodgers, helping Toronto end its five-game slide. First, it was Daulton Varsho, who crashed into the center-field wall to take a hit away from Shohei Ohtani in the first inning. And in the

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TORONTO -- Facing Shohei Ohtani will always mean more to the Blue Jays after The Great Heartbreak, but this runs deeper for Yusei Kikuchi. Kikuchi and Ohtani both attended Hanamaki Higashi High School in the Iwate Prefecture of Japan. If you don’t run into traffic, you can drive south from

TORONTO -- Seriously, it’s nothing personal. The book on Shohei Ohtani’s free agency -- long closed everywhere but Toronto -- got another stinging chapter on Friday night, when Ohtani homered in his first at-bat as a Dodger at Rogers Centre. That solo blast was almost as predictable as the shower