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Tag: Toronto Blue Jays

Episode 273 – 2022 AL East Preview

April 14, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

For the final of our 2022 Previews we are in the AL East and joined by: Melanie Newman, PxP for the Baltimore Orioles Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic on the Red Sox Keith McPherson of WFAN on the Yankees Rays

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30 BOLDish predictions: One for each MLB team

April 7, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

AL WEST Houston Astros Jeremy Pena debuts for the Astros and creates an unstoppable middle-infield pairing with Jose Altuve. Both players hit over .300, and there’s not a single banged trashcan to be heard. Los Angeles Angels Injuries disrupt Mike

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Underpaid Superstars. The Minimum-Wage Roster: First base

November 29, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Among active players, three of the four with the best career numbers belong to first basemen: Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera and Joey Votto. The anomaly is, of course, Mike Trout. The first baseman brings the power, but he is also

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It’s a wild, wild, Wild Card race

September 12, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

On Friday, 3 September, the Yankees were a game and a half ahead of the Red Sox in the Wild Card standings and seven games ahead of the Blue Jays, who, let’s be honest, looked out of it. We were

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Episode 217 – 2021 AL East Preview

March 15, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

In the fourth of our 2021 Season Previews, we take to the American League, starting down the East Coast. Our guests this time up: MASN Orioles PxP Melanie Newman on the Orioles The Athletic Boston’s Jen McCaffrey on the Red

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What does 2021 have in store for the AL East?

January 24, 2021 Mark Strange Baseball, Guest writer

It seems like a lifetime ago since I watched Blake Snell (and later Justin Turner for different reasons) slouch off the field at Globe Life Park in Arlington in Game Six of the World Series. It was the closest the

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Toronto Blue Jays: Crushed at the Trop

July 28, 2020 Jack Ramsden Baseball, Team Contributors

As is now sadly tradition, the Toronto Blue Jays fell to the Tampa Bay Rays in their recent series at Tropicana Stadium in Florida. In a manner painfully reminiscent of last season’s pitching horrors, the Blue Jays bullpen flopped in

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A history of fugitive hamsters (or, getting through the indefinite off-season)

March 31, 2020 Rachel Steinberg Baseball, Learning to Baseball

Here at Bat Flips and Nerds we sometimes get people who want to contribute but don’t know what to write. We often say to them, “Why not write about what got you into baseball?” I have never written one of

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Episode 160 – Andy Burns, Toronto Blue Jays

March 28, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Blue Jays infielder Andy Burns chats to John about his time with the club, his career as a ‘rock star’ with the Lotte Giants of the KBO and spending 2019 up close and personal in Buffalo with the Blue Jays

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Toronto Blue Jays: How to sabotage the AL East

March 21, 2020 Jack Ramsden Baseball, Team Contributors

[Note: Whilst drafting this COVID-19 has put the entire upcoming MLB season in serious doubt. Whilst the following may not even be relevant now and feels kind of pointless given the seriousness of the pandemic, I hope this post at

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