The trade deadline is fast approaching, the the Toronto Blue Jays have more than a little work to do — especially after the Tampa Bay Rays added slugger Nelson Cruz on Thursday night. Who are they targeting? Who will other teams be targeting? What have Mark Shapiro’s teams done historically at the deadline? That’s what we’re talking about this week on Blue Jays Happy Hour!

Plus: Nate Pearson’s diagnosis, a look ahead to this weekend’s Jays/Mets series, and so much more!

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It’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s world, we’re all just living in it. This week MLB’s annual All-Star game was held in Denver, and the largest of our adult sons made a huge splash, leading the American League to victory and taking home the game’s MVP award. It was also draft week! So, even though there weren’t a lot of Blue Jays games to talk about, there was plenty to discuss in this episode — which we did along with our special guest, draft expert, national baseball writer, and the host of Chin Music, Kevin Goldstein of FanGraphs!

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• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-jays-happy-hour/id1564979331

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The Jays made another trade this week, ending the Rowdy Tellez era by sending him to Milwaukee in exchange for another bullpen upgrade in the form of Trevor Richards. It’s not quite a blockbuster, but another move in the right direction for the 2021 Blue Jays, who look like they might be in for a very active July on the trade front.

This week we talk about that, plus the catching situation now that Danny Jansen and Alejandro Kirk are healthy, the first 159 games of Bo Bichette’s career, this weekend’s series against the Rays and more!

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The Blue Jays stumbled a bit against the Seattle Mariners in their midweek series, undoing some of the good work they'd done against the Orioles and the Marlins. And though the bullpen is hardly the team's only problem, it remains a glaring area of need — even after the Jays jumped the trade market by acquiring Adam Cimber and Corey Dickerson from Miami.

This week we talk about all that, the upcoming series with the Rays, trade targets, and more! Including a chat with the great Rob Wong, host of Blue Jays Baseball and Jays Talk on Sportsnet 590 The FAN!

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The Blue Jays have had a good week! Sure, there have been dumb suspensions, bad news on the Nate Pearson front, and various other things to be down about, but a five game win streak and a rebounding bullpen is nothing to sneeze at. So we won’t!

This week Stoeten and Nick talk about all that, plus sticky stuff, Stoeten’s internet problems, getting reacquainted with the Orioles, and more!

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In last week’s episode Stoeten and Nick declared it was bullpen gut check time and over the week since the Blue Jays’ relievers have failed it by every measure imaginable. Nobody is happy with the state of affairs, save for manager Charlie Montoyo, for some reason. Fortunately, some dates with the Baltimore Orioles are finally on the horizon.

This week we talk about all that, and many frustrating times from years past, with special guest Mike Wilner of the Toronto Star — and his own new podcast, Deep Left Field!

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Cracks at the bottom of the Blue Jays’ lineup, on the bench, and in their bullpen, were especially easy to spot when contrasted with a very good White Sox team that got the better of them in their most recent series. On this week’s show, with a big (for June) weekend series against the Red Sox about to start, Stoeten and Nick take a look at those cracks, focusing specifically on the Jays’ wobbly group of relievers. Plus an encouraging start from Alek Manoah, prospect talk, George Springer’s running regimen, inevitable Spider Tack references and more!

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The Blue Jays season is one third of the way over, which makes it a perfect time take stock of where the team is at, and where it's going. This week Stoeten and Nick did just that by conjuring up some hot takes and playing some over/unders with the great Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet!

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Alek Manoah was everything the Blue Jays could have hoped for on Thursday. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — a legitimate MVP candidate — has been everything the Jays could have hoped for all season. On episode of Blue Jays Happy Hour, Stoeten and Nick talk about those two very big, very important lads, plus Canadian baseball, a look ahead to the weekend series with Cleveland, calling Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow an idiot, and more!

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The Blue Jays struggled to close out this week with a tough loss to Boston, but it’s the bigger picture that’s still got the attention of Stoeten and Nick, as Alek Manoah continues to make his case for a promotion to the big leagues much sooner than anybody expected. On episode four of Blue Jays Happy Hour you’ll hear that, plus talk about prospect Gabriel Moreno, Nate Pearson, the pesky Rays, and a great chat about broadcasting, stats, and the state of the Blue Jays with the legendary Dan Shulman!

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*not to mention, as was announced moments after we published this, his latest injury.

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-jays-happy-hour/id1564979331

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