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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

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

Episode 160 – Andy Burns, Toronto Blue Jays

March 28, 2020 Gavin 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

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

Toronto Blue Jays: Who will sneak into the rotation?

March 1, 2020 Jack Ramsden Baseball, Team Contributors

A key question Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo has been trying to answer this preseason is which exciting young prospect or flashy new signing has earned their place in Toronto’s starting pitcher rotation? During the offseason, the Blue Jays signed optimism-inducing,

Toronto Blue Jays 2020: Reasons for Optimism

February 18, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer, Previews

What happened in 2019? With a record of 67 wins and 95 losses, last season was down there with one of the worst on record for the Blue Jays. Indeed, it saw the team continue along a path of steady

Reasons to watch baseball – AL East

January 18, 2020 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion, Previews

A little love letter to you

June 26, 2019 Rachel Steinberg Baseball, London Series, Pinch Hitting

Dear British baseball community, Canadians are weird. We spell “ise” words with a “z” but call the letter a “zed”. The Queen is on all of our money, but Americans are on most of our favourite television shows. Being a

Five Pitchers I’d Like to See in the Blue Jays’ Rotation Instead of Edwin Jackson

June 14, 2019 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Opinion

It’s tough to be a Blue Jays fan right now. Yes, we have Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who is hitting hard and showing a lot of promise on the field and at the plate. Yes, our farm system is stacked with

Matt Shoemaker, Kevin Pillar, and the Neverending Search for Redemption

April 26, 2019 Paddy Johnston Baseball

After getting involved in a rundown on the path between first and second, Blue Jays pitcher Matt Shoemaker twisted his leg as he applied a tag and tore his ACL during Saturday’s game against the Oakland A’s. The aftermath was