Blue Jays Talk

The Blue Jays finished off their series against the Dodgers in style, winning yesterday's matinee on the back of Yusei Kikuchi's strong start and an offensive downpour. Host Blake Murphy gives us some encouraging stats from the game, before being joined by The Athletic’s Kaitlyn McGrath to look ahead to Toronto's upcoming homestand. Next up, FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray takes a trip around the majors at what teams and players are in the mix for some moves (33:50). Blake then turns his attention back to the Jays with Sportsnet’s own MLB insider Shi Davidi, who weighs in on the front office's plan for August 1st (48:14). Later on, we get an Angels' perspective from one of their biggest fans Riley Breckenridge, former host of the Productive Outs podcast and drummer from the band Thrice (01:03:07)! To close today, Blake checks in with MLB.com’s Mike Petriello about the American League Wild Card picture ahead of an important weekend series between the Angels and Jays (01:19:22).

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Jeff Blair and Kevin Barker break down the Blue Jays' 8-1 win over the Dodgers to wrap up the west coast road trip! They take your calls and discuss how a 3-3 record out west, while acceptable before the plane took off, has a different feeling after a few blown leads. They discuss the outing from Yusei Kikuchi in which he only allowed one earned run over six innings of work while also notching eight strikeouts, and get to the state of the bullpen after a lengthy swing through Seattle and Los Angeles. Plus, they chat about the bats, including George Springer and Whit Merrifield seemingly trending in different directions.

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As the clock struck 1:00am in Toronto, collapse struck for the Toronto Blue Jays on the West Coast. After leading by four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, bullpen troubles and defensive miscues ended up costing the Jays a win. Host Blake Murphy elicits the help of Blue Jays TV voice Dan Shulman to take a closer look at what went wrong in the closing stages. Next, Blake opens up our JTP Mailbag again to read out your listener texts and tweets about the upcoming trade deadline and Toronto's stance with one week to go (28:00). Sticking with our Jays deep dive, MLB.com's Keegan Matheson shares his read on what roster moves he has his eye on as we approach August 1st (50:08). To close today’s show, Blake is joined by Jon Morosi of MLB Network, who highlights which trade targets could make an meaningful impact in the home stretch of the season (01:18:43).

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Sho Alli breaks down the Blue Jays' 8-7 loss to the Dodgers in extra innings out in Los Angeles. He takes your calls and texts, and gets to the horrific ninth inning - who does the blame lay with, Santiago Espinal, Erik Swanson or someone else? Was there bad luck involved in Swanson's outing following some uncharacteristic defensive plays from both Matt Chapman and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.? Plus, Mitch White surrenders the late run to lose the game, Danny Jansen's bat is clutch once again, and maybe there's something there with Génesis Cabrera for a beleaguered bullpen.

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Host Blake Murphy is joined by Sportsnet Blue Jays Producer Chris Black in-studio to go over some of the latest numbers around Toronto’s MLB team. After that, Blake turns his attention to the upcoming trade deadline with the help of The Athletic’s Levi Weaver, writer of “The Windup” MLB newsletter (32:40).  For the second hour, JTP heads to the City of Angels with Sportsnet’s own Ben Nicholson-Smith, who shares his takeaways from his first game ever at Chavez Ravine, before taking some time to sift through the top trade targets for Toronto (50:50). We wrap things up with Fabian Ardaya, Dodgers writer for The Athletic, who offers some insight into Los Angeles' season so far and previews some names they could be looking at for the deadline (01:24:42).

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Sho Alli breaks down the Blue Jays' 6-3 win over the Dodgers in extra innings! He takes your calls and texts, and gets right to the two scoreless frames by Jay Jackson, who shuts down the top of the Dodgers order in the ninth inning - and then does it again in extras - how important was that for the Jays following a number of incredibly close games? He also discusses the massive two-run hit for Daulton Varsho in extras - did that just save Varsho from potentially seeing more time on the bench, or even a stint in the minors? Plus, Sho chats about the outings from both José Berríos and Michael Grove - what was up with Grove getting checked for sticky stuff, and should there be any larger consequences if there was anything there?

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The Blue Jays managed to salvage their series in Seattle, stealing the final game by a narrow 4-3 margin. Host Blake Murphy breaks down the entire weekend at T-Mobile Park with the help of Madison Shipman of Blue Jays Central, who shares her takeaways from Alek Manoah's start and Vlad Guerrero Jr. at the dish. Later on, Doug Fox (better knows as D.M. Fox on Substack) dives deep into his “Future Blue Jays Newsletter” to share some scouting reports of Toronto's most intriguing prospects (31:07). To start the second hour, former big league catcher, Erik Kratz joins to chat about some of his latest work co-hosting Foul Territory and co-authoring the book The Tao of the Backup Catcher with Tim Brown. Erik also offers some insight into what it's like to be a player around the trade deadline, before sharing his expectations for this year's cutoff (51:37). Blake wraps up today's show with a look into our JTP Mailbag to answer your questions (01:12:32)!

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Sho Alli breaks down the Blue Jays' 4-3 win over the Mariners in Seattle! He takes your calls and texts, and gets to the start from Alek Manoah in which he allowed three earned runs over 5.1 IP - where does this start fall for Manoah when considering his season to-date? He discusses the adventurous 27th save for Jordan Romano, the play of Tim Mayza before him, and also gets to big home runs from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Brandon Belt. Plus, what does the minor-league stint for Nate Pearson mean for the bullpen going forward?

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Sho Alli breaks down the Blue Jays' 9-8 loss to the Mariners in Seattle. He takes your calls and texts, and discusses yet another loss at the new house of horrors that is T-Mobile Park out west. He gets to the start from Kevin Gausman in which he let up four home runs over six innings of work - was he pulled too early despite the lack of velocity today on that fastball? Plus, he chats about the bullpen, including subpar outings from Nate Pearson and Yimi Garcia, and whether or not Whit Merrifield could have been sent as the game-tying run at the end of the game.

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Sho Alli breaks down the Blue Jays' 3-2 walk-off loss to the Mariners in Seattle. He takes your calls and texts, and gets right to another loss taken by Jordan Romano in a non-save situation. Why is it so different for him vs. actual save situations? He also discusses the hotly debated Alejandro Kirk pinch-hit decision in the eighth inning - was that where the game was lost? Why Kirk over either Daulton Varsho or Jordan Luplow? Plus, Sho gets to Yusei Kikuchi's 5.1 IP of five hit, zero run baseball, and asks what a new contract for Danny Jansen could potentially look like.

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