Blue Jays Happy Hour

By Blue Jays Happy Hour

Andrew Stoeten (The Batflip, formerly the Athletic, National Post, Blue Jays Nation, Drunk Jays Fans) and Nick Ashbourne (Sportsnet and Yahoo Sports) team up every Tuesday to discuss all things Tor

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The podcast currently has 132 episodes available.

Blue Jays Happy Hour episodes:

April 17, 2025 Heads Above Water
The Blue Jays couldn't afford to dig themselves an early hole this season, and they've managed to avoid doing exactly that. Chris Bassitt, Jeff Hoffman, and Yimi Garcia pitching like the best starter, closer, and setup man in baseball will certainly help in that regard. But whether their success will prove durable—whether enough offence will come, whether the rotation will hold, and whether the bullpen can continue to live up to an impossibly high standard while being relied-upon heavily—remains to seen.

PLUS: Putting an over/under on Max Scherzer's innings pitched, figuring out the roster once Nathan Lukes returns (a conversation we had before Davis Schneider was optioned down to Buffalo), check-ins on Barger, Wagner, Clement, and more!
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47min
April 07, 2025 A Blue Jay For Life
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is now under contract with the Toronto Blue Jays for the next 15 years, and all it took to make it happen was a mere half-a-billion dollars. Everybody gets what they want except the pocketbook of a rich weirdo who couldn't spend all his money in a thousand lifetimes anyway. That's a win-win-win in my book!
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38min
April 03, 2025 Positive Vibes Only
The Blue Jays split a four-gamer with the Orioles to start the 2025 season, and then swept the Nationals at home. Max Scherzer may be out, but with performances like we've been seeing from the likes of Andrés Giménez, George Springer, and Easton Lucas, his absence has barely been felt so far. And so for this week's episode, knowing precisely what the answer would be, we went for a quasi-traditional Vibe Check. And folks, the vibes are good. (For now.)
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46min
March 27, 2025 Still Undefeated
The 2025 MLB season is nearly upon us, and the Blue Jays have a fighting chance in an ultra-tight American League in which every team still has the same record. But merely meeting their projections won't be good enough, and succeeding will rely on some good stories from a group of position player prospects older than Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and health from a starting rotation with an average age of 34. This week we talk about what it will take for the Jays to have a successful season and how an unsuccessful one might play out, why the team chose Roden over Barger and parted ways with Ryan Yarbrough, the reasons to really like Alejandro Kirk's contract—plus predictions for the season and more!
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48min
March 20, 2025 Food for Thought
We start this one off with an obligatory check-in on the Vladdy circus—and circle back on it at the end because of Mark Shapiro's surprising admission of optimism on still getting an extension done—and some of the goings-on in Dunedin, before heading full on into Food Talk. That's right, it's our annual review of the Jays' newly announced ballpark food offerings!
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March 13, 2025 Another Vladdy Conversation
New reporting suggests that the contract talks between the Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stalled out with a gap of just $50 million over 14 years. Does that change how we feel? Is anybody being reasonable here? Can they still perhaps salvage this now that both sides can be credibly seen as ridiculous? This week we focus on the biggest story of the Jays' season—so much for not being a distraction!—plus some injury updates, bullpen talk, and more!
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45min
March 06, 2025 A Time for Hope and Optimism
We mostly take Nick's advice this week and "focus on the season." Though big picture concerns about the franchise aren't going away anytime soon, the Jays have a talented group in camp, are already seeing some positive stories, and potentially have the makings of a fun and relevant team. It may not work out that way, of course. But if you can't get hopeful in March you've got real problems.
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47min
February 27, 2025 Springing Springer
Spring has finally sprung for the Toronto Blue Jays, who have several high-profile players potentially in camp for the last time. Could one of those be George Springer, who—unless he's able to reverse the sharp offensive decline he's seen over his last two seasons—faces an uncertain future with just one more year on his contract after this one? That's just one of many storylines discussed on this week's episode, with others including Max Scherzer's arrival, the futures of Vlad and Bo, youngsters to watch, the revamped bullpen, the positional puzzle, and more!
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43min
February 19, 2025 Vlad to the Bone
You had one job, Ross and Mark! And in this Vlad-centric episode, we discuss how and why they failed at it.
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40min
February 05, 2025 Ending on a Positive Note?
Like this very podcast episode itself, the Blue Jays' offseason may be ending on a positive note. January signings of Anthony Santander and Max Scherzer—the latter only made official this week—have put the club back firmly into the American League playoff mix. But they aren't out of the mushy middle yet. And with projections that may seem a bit too bullish—for example, Alejandro Kirk, Andrés Giménez and George Springer have produced wRC+ marks of 95, 90, and 100 respectively over the last two seasons combined but are somehow projected to 114, 106, and 108 according to FanGraphs—and playoff odds that place them behind 10 other American League teams, it feels like there's very much still work to do.

There's work that can be done, of course. Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso remain available on the free agent market. But can the Jays actually reel them in? How would we feel if they don't? What else might they look to do to flesh out their roster. And, of course, what of Vlad.

This week we discuss all this, and more!
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42min

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