Jays From the Couch Radio- Complete Toronto Blue Jays Audio

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 81 of the Jays Nest Podcast, which features great discussion on the early Toronto Blue Jays rumors that are being floated. The Trade Deadline is over 3 weeks away, but that doesn't stop the odd rumors. We also assess the club's needs heading into the deadline. Umpires in baseball have been a topic of discussion lately in Blue Jays Land and we question the alternatives. Our Stat of the Week looks at a an overvalued offensive stat. Our Hot Takes surround Aaron Sanchez and our reader questions are great, as always. 

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 80 of the Jays Nest Podcast, featuring some cranky discussion about still more speculation about the future of Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion with the Toronto Blue Jays. The club has also been playing some rather poor baseball lately, which leads to some frustrating lines of discussion, which we boldly traverse.We look at the current pitching depth, which looks dubious. We bring you our Stat of the Week and lots of flaming Hot Takes before taking some great reader questions.

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 79 of the Jays Nest Podcast, featuring great discussion (as always) about the recent success of Josh Donaldson and Michael Saunders. The flip side of talking about hot hitters is bringing up cold pitchers. We look at the struggles of Marcus Stroman. Our Stat of the Week looks into the flaws of a commonly used offensive metric. Our "Hot Takes" take a chance on Drew Hutchison and some advice for moving closer to July.

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 78 of the Jays Nest Podcast, featuring a breakdown of our reactions to the Blue Jays 2016 Draft. including the difference in philosophy with new management and our thoughts on the crap shoot hat is the draft. We also continue our Stat of the Week segment with a look at On Base Percentage (OBP). Our "Hot Takes" feature an interesting draft pick and a look ahead to the next time the Blue Jays see the Royals. We also take a reader question about Trade Deadline targets.

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 77 of the Jays Nest Podcast that features Keegan joining me from beautiful San Francisco. He could not pass up a week of great Blue Jays talk. This week we discuss the recent trade for Jason Grilli as well as the anniversary of the SkyDome/Rogers Centre. We dig into what we consider to be valuable stats to use when intelligently discussing pitchers and their effectiveness. We offer up our usually spicy Hot Takes and respond to some great reader questions! 

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 76 of the Jays Nest Podcast, which features some quick news hits on the past week in Blue Jays Land. We talk about Troy Tulowitzki to the DL, Aaron Loup and Devon Travis returning. The roster moves gave way to the logical examination of the importance of depth on this team. Our Stat of the Week segment dug into the world of pitching wins and losses. Our Hot Take centered around a (perhaps biased) opinion about the return of Travis and signs of the bats coming alive!

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 75 of the Jays Nest Podcast where we're busting out a more crisp format for our show. We make an attempt to curb our long winded productions. The podcast will fit into a more palatable shorter version. We're hoping you'll enjoy the more to the point podcast. This week, we look at Blue Jays news and introduce a new segment where we dig into a statistic from the world of baseball in a Blue Jays context. Our Hot Takes segment continues with some thoughts on MLB umpiring and some advice for Josh Donaldson. We end with some great reader questions, as always.

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 74 of the Jays Nest Podcast where you'll hear our reaction to the recent brawl between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers. We analyze each of the events in the sequence leading to benches clearing, including Rougned Odor punching Jose Bautista in the face. It is an interesting discussion that goes into the mysterious realm of unwritten rules. After that, we sit down with Jesse Goldberg-Strassler to talk Lansing Lugnuts. Jesse is the voice of the Lugnuts and has great insight into the exciting young talent in A ball. All this and reader questions coming at you.

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch brings you Episode 73 of the Jays Nest Podcast where we discuss the continued struggles of the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen. It feels like every week we talk about this. That is because there is growing frustration and calls for something to be done to fix the problem(s). Perhaps, it could be as easy as using the pieces properly. We also bring you a sit down with Andy Burns right before he got the call up to the big leagues. All of this, our "Hot Takes" and lots of reader questions await you in this week's episode.

www.JaysFromtheCouch.com @JaysFromCouch sits down with former Toronto Blue Jays infielder, Homer Bush. We ask him about his time in Toronto and New York, PED usage, MLB's new slide rule and much more! We also ask him about his book Hitting Low in the Zone: A New Baseball Paradigm. So, we ask him how to fix struggling hitters. Listening to Bush talk about hitting is a real treat! You can find Bush and his book at HittingLowInTheZone.com