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TORONTO -- The Blue Jays filled the biggest hole on their coaching staff on Monday, hiring David Popkins as the club’s new hitting coach. The 34-year-old Popkins is well regarded in baseball circles, and he spent the past three seasons as the hitting coach for the Twins after working in

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The weather is starting to turn in many parts of the United States and Canada, but that doesn't mean baseball goes away after the conclusion of the World Series. It's always baseball season in Latin America. From now through the Caribbean Series in February, winter leagues feature some of the

The 2024 Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists were announced on Tuesday morning, with winners set to be unveiled on ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight” on Nov. 3 at 8:30 p.m. ET. Both leagues have three finalists at each position, including the utility spot, which was awarded for the first time in 2022.

Yariel Rodríguez made history in 2024 when he became the first Cuban-born pitcher to take the mound for the Blue Jays. While Rodríguez was an impact signing in February for $32 million, Kendry Rojas was a much more under-the-radar addition to the organization’s farm system when he signed for $215,000

It’s that time of year again: the announcement of the MLB Pipeline Hitting and Pitching Prospects of the Year for each organization. The group is led by our overall Hitting Prospect of the Year Kristian Campbell (Red Sox) and Pitching Prospect of the Year Quinn Mathews (Cardinals). They are two

While we keep saying the game is getting younger and younger, there’s actually data to back up just how much of an impact rookies have had on the game. According to FanGraphs' calculations, 2024 rookie hitters amassed 60.7 WAR, third all-time in AL/NL history behind 2023 and 2015. And this

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The Arizona Fall League is often called a showcase circuit or prospect graduating school – a place where the Minors’ top talents gather for six weeks in the Valley of the Sun to compete before putting their stamps on the Majors. But the six AFL rosters aren’t loaded with Top

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Tune into the Arizona Fall League and the Dominican Winter League (LIDOM) to watch some of baseball's brightest young stars. You can see MLB's top prospects in action, with AFL matchups streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. LIDOM games are included as

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TORONTO -- Bowden Francis, meet Dave Stieb. Stieb still stands alone on the mountaintop, the only pitcher in Blue Jays history to throw a no-hitter, but another near-miss on Sept. 11 left Francis standing on rare ground that only Stieb has known.

TORONTO -- For an organization that’s still fairly young, relative to some of the league’s longstanding clubs, the Blue Jays have had an incredible run of stars come through Toronto over their history. Even in those lean years between playoff runs as the Blue Jays looked to find their footing

Looking back over four-plus decades of Blue Jays baseball, many of the eras are defined by which ace was leading the staff. Dave Stieb was the Blue Jays' workhorse star in the 1980s, leading the rotation as Toronto rose from an expansion team to a competitor. The Roy Halladay years

TORONTO -- When the Blue Jays have been at their best, downtown Toronto orbits around Rogers Centre. With one of the best ballpark locations in baseball, Rogers Centre, which opened as SkyDome in 1989, has been home to the Blue Jays for over 30 years and hosted a long list

TORONTO -- The Blue Jays’ offseason started on a familiar note Wednesday. This time, there was no soul-crushing postseason loss to dissect, only the long, frustrating, 74-88 season that long ago strayed from being competitive. The messaging from club president and CEO Mark Shapiro remained the same, though, along with

The month of October brings baseball fans the excitement of postseason play in the Majors and the dawn of a new Arizona Fall League campaign. The Surprise Saguaros and Mesa Solar Sox kicked off the 32nd season of AFL competition on Monday, pulling the curtain up on six weeks of

There is a ton that goes into constructing an Arizona Fall League roster. Each AFL club receives prospects from five separate organizations, all with different needs and priorities. Some want their best prospects to spend time in the desert. Others primarily want formerly injured players to make up for lost

TORONTO -- This time, there’s no great heartbreak on the final day. Those heartbreaks are reserved for those who came close. There is no stunned silence in a still clubhouse, no thousand-yard stare across the room, no wondering what just happened. That’s because there’s no mystery and no suddenness to

The wheel never stops turning in these parts. The Minor League season may be over and the Majors might be in the midst of the postseason, but the Arizona Fall League begins with its Opening Day on Monday. So let’s give the MLB Pipeline Top 100 Prospects list a quick

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to track all of the Blue Jays' moves, along with the progress of any injured players. All players on the 60-day IL will be added back to clubs' 40-player rosters at the end of the World Series.

TORONTO -- Everything was new to Yariel Rodríguez this year. The hitters, the cities, the lifestyle, all of it. Pitching aside, there’s a big difference between the Rodríguez who walked into Dunedin, Fla., for the first time in February and the man who walked off the field on Saturday in