Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner

This Canada Day in Deep Left Field, we have an all-Canadian episode. Mike Wilner talks with Larry Walker, the greatest Canadian position player in MLB history, checks in with John Axford about pitching for Team Canada and working his way back to the big leagues, and convenes a round table of the only Canadians to broadcast Blue Jays play-by-play on the radio with Dan Shulman and Joe Siddall.

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This week in Deep Left Field, host Mike Wilner talks to Alek Manoah about his first month in the big leagues, checks in with Jays lefty Anthony Kay’s big brother Bobby and includes our monthly visit from Paul Sun-Hyung Lee to talk about the state of the Blue Jays.

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This week in Deep Left Field, Mike Wilner talks to Riley Adams about the first couple of weeks of his major-league career, checks in with Chris Leroux about Canada just missing out on the Olympics and what's going on in the Blue Jays' bullpen and chats with Ken Davidoff about the "sticky stuff" controversy, as well as all the former Blue Jays playing for the Mets right now.

This week in Deep Left Field, we gather a star-studded roundtable. Paul Beeston, Bob Elliott and Dave Perkins join to share stories and memories of Hall of Fame broadcaster Tom Cheek, who called Blue Jays games for the first 28 years in franchise history, on the occasion of what would have been his 82nd birthday

Guests: Team Canada pitcher Andrew Albers, Miami Marlins reliever (and Brampton, Ont., native) Zach Pop and Toronto Star Baseball Columnist Gregor Chisholm

This week in Deep Left Field, we talk to Gregor Chisholm about the first 1/3 of the Blue Jays 2021 season, now that it's in the rear-view mirror, check in with Zach Pop on how his rookie season is going so far - and his first outing against his hometown team - and head south to Florida, where Andrew Albers was a big part of a no-hitter for Team Canada as they work to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

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This week in Deep Left Field, we talk to Ross Stripling about going back to the drawing board and emerging with his best outing as a Blue Jay, touch base with Dan Shulman in anticipation of Alek Manoah's major-league debut, and check in with Chris Leroux and Scott Richmond as they prepare to represent Canada in the Baseball Americas Qualifier on the road to the Tokyo games.

Guests: Blue Jays left-hander Travis Bergen, Red Sox pitching coach (and former Blue Jay Dave Bush), Rays radio voice Andy Freed.

This week in Deep Left Field, we talk to Travis Bergen about his journey to and from the Blue Jays and his sensational start to the season, check in with Dave Bush about being back in Dunedin for big-league games and have a great (former) broadcaster-to-broadcaster chat with Andy Freed, who was there for Tom Cheek's last call.

Guests: Conor Biggio, brother of Blue Jays 3B Cavan Biggio; Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, star of CBC's Kim's Convenience; former Blue Jay all-star Ricky Romero

This week in Deep Left Field, we talk to Conor Biggio about his little brother's triumphant return to Houston, get Ricky Romero's take on Nate Pearson's erratic season debut and hear from Paul Sun-Hyung Lee about his thoughts on the Blue Jays' season so far.

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This week in Deep Left Field, we talk to Randal Grichuk about his and the Blue Jays’ season so far (hours before he went out and had a three-hit game in Oakland), get Gregor Chisholm’s thoughts on the George Springer saga and we hear from Emma Marshall about her experiences working for a major-league team and what baseball can do to create a culture of true inclusion and respect in the wake of MLB cutting ties with Roberto Alomar due to allegations of sexual misconduct.

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Guests: Long-time Blue Jays and baseball reporter, and member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob Elliott, as well as Josh Zeid, former Houston Astro and current member of Team Israel in the upcoming Olympics

Hosted by Mike Wilner, a Toronto-based baseball columnist and podcaster for the Toronto Star.