Fans from the Stands

This week's episode will talk about the hardware that some Blue Jays players brought home during award season.  We talk about the great early off-season signing of Berrios to a 7 year contract and speculate on other moves.  We discuss Semien and Ray and what he hope to see happen.  We also talk about Pearson having successful hernia surgery and hope that this may have been the root to his performance issues.  Around the rest of the MLB we chat about Shohei Othani and his new teammate Noah Syndergaard (signed to a 1 year/$21M).  We also lament the possibility of a MLB work stoppage and how this really dampens the Jays competitive window.

This week we review our pre-season predictions.  How close were we for season standings, MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year award winners?  We had some comically wrong predictions and were eerily on others.

This week we chat about the end of the 2021 Blue Jays and what the front office priorities are in terms of resigning outgoing free agents.  We also talk about some of the teams biggest surprises and busts and who would be our team award winners (ROY, MVP, Cy Young).  We try to predict with Blue Jay is anyone is going to get traded for reinforcements and what big signing the Jays may make.  We discuss the MLB Post Season currently in progress and who we hope makes the World Series.  This week's blue chipper is Manuel Beltre.  We wonder if he's related to Adrian Beltre and if Manuel will make an impact, being such a high touted 17 year old.

This week we recap the rest of the series vs the Rays and the outcome of "Card-gate", which resulted in a couple of suspensions (Borucki 2 games and Montoyo 1 game).  We also chat about the series split with the Twins.  We talk about the outstanding play made by a hobbled Springer in centerfield and Yvan admits that he may have been wrong about leaving Springer in the lineup and is impressed by his ability to gut it out.  We discuss the playoff bound teams around the league and the possibility of a 5 way tie for the wildcard in the AL.

This week we recap a series win over the Twins and a rough opening to the Rays series.  We talk about Ryu not being himself in his last start and speculate about his stint on the IL.  We talk about the "scouting card saga" that developed in Tampa Bay.  We also rave about Gurriel Jr's month of September.  Around the league we discuss the Padres dugout blowup and Mr Scherzer mind blowing tenure as a Dodger.  We close out by chatting about the promotion of Gabriel Moreno to AAA.

This week we recap the amazing roll the Blue Jays have been on and managed to fight their way in to a Wildcard spot along with the Red Sox and Yankees.  We chat about Cy Young and MVP candidates on the team.  We talk about how the it's amazing that some teams have put themselves in the playoff picture with little to no expectations at the start of the season (St-Louis and San Francisco)  We also discuss the Bisons having a great season and spotlight their closer (who made a brief appearance in the MLB) Bryan Barker.

The week we discuss the Jays not beating up on teams they should and struggling to string together hits.  We discuss the possible reinforcements that could be making returns from the IL.  We also chat about the hard luck of Mike Soroka who will once again rehab a torn Achilles.  We also wonder the reasoning for the Padres firing their pitching coach considering they are still in contention.  This week we focus of 17 year old prospect Manuel Beltre.

This week we discuss the Blue recent high (the return to the Rogers Centre) and sudden low (the current road trip).  We chat about the trade deadline deals and whether they have or have not worked out.  We rave about the Field of Dreams game and how this should be an ongoing thing.  We give our thoughts on MLB's suggestion to create a spending floor and lower the luxury cap.  We also discuss Kevin Smith (#23 on Toronto's Prospect list) who has recently been called up.

This week we discuss the previous two week that appear to have the Jays hit a wall, the Boston Red Sox.  The Jays are also in the mix for a few trades (we recorded on trade deadline day) and we discuss what e think the Blue Jays should be looking for (Spoiler Alert: we think that Jose Berrios is the best option).  We also talk about other trades around the league, namely the Yanks and Dodgers.  We wrap things up with prospects Orelvis Martinez, who is tearing it up in A ball.

This week we recap the handful of pre-all-star break games.  We discuss the homerun derby in it's current format, the All-Star game and what we'd like to see.  We also discuss Rob Manfred "state of the union" address and some of the likely rule changes.  We also do a mid season review of our predictions from Episode 6.  This weeks Blue Chip spotlight is on newly drafted Gunnar Hoglund.