Less Than Jays: A Toronto Blue Jays Podcast

Jake's Back!

Same old Jays.

Yeah, that should just about do it.

This is going great so far

We're feeling okay about the pitching, okay about the hitting, and okay with just about everything except the total inability for this team to sweep a series. Just go on a run, dammit! How hard can it be? (very hard)

Incredible: The 2023 season has 170 games in it! It's just still going! Changing nothing has changed nothing!

Can the Jays find a way to turn it around in the next .... 155 games?

Surprise! One extra episode is on the way for you.

Dan Vogelbach grabbed an Opening Day 40 man slot at the expense of Yosver Zulueta (who we all learned about for no reason!), so I brought in the notorious Spencer to break down an admittedly fairly basic caricature of a Type Of Guy that has always existed in baseball. The Big Sluggin DH.

If you're wondering where the Brian Serven episode is: He's a 3rd catcher. They rebuilt his swing a little bit? If he's decent I'll record one next week, ok?

Bo Bichette has continued to get better over his tenure as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, adding more and more to his strengths while putting in the work to minimize his weaknesses. MLB dot com's Keegan Matheson joins the final episode of 40 in 30 to talk about the face of the Jays franchise.

After two stellar seasons as the ace of the Blue Jays staff, Kevin Gausman is primed to continue to rise to the level of the game's elite pitchers. Old Reliable Andrew Stoeten stops by to look deeper at the best pitcher in the Jays rotation, and potentially one of the best in franchise history.

We're finally made it out of the wilderness everyone, spring training is over and we've got a season preview on the way.

Check out a full episode full of best and worst feelings around individual players, the machinations of the bottom of the roster, and some bold predictions for the season overall.

We've got an extra couple guest episodes around so why not share them!

In honour of Jose Berrios being named Opening Day starter The much maligned WhyJays / Mr. Baby / aka White Silk joins the show to take a closer look at La Makina, a model of pitching consistency that had an odd hiccup in 2022 but managed to bounce back to his old self with a stellar 2023.

And Yusei Kikuchi pulled his Blue Jays career out of the gutter with an incredible bounce-back 2023 campaign that saw him post career bests in every worthwhile category. Chris Boulding jumps onto the show to analyze the changes that helped Kikuchi climb back out of the bullpen and into the waiting arms of the Blue Jays faithful.