#John Schneider

This story was excerpted from Keegan Matheson's Blue Jays Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, . And to get it regularly in your inbox. When Drew Carey was still hosting the show, he'd open by saying: "Welcome to'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter." The same can be said about the…

He is a little longer in the tooth and is coming off a season halted by injury, but in Brendon Belt the Blue Jays have added a two-time World Series champion as the latest move in a busy off-season overhaul. A source confirmed on Monday that the team has signed the versatile Belt to a one-year, $9.3-million US deal. The 34-year-old played all 12 of…

The next player in our 2023 season preview series is newly-acquired first baseman Brandon Belt. First, here's a refresher on the projection system we're going to be taking a look at. STEAMER: 326 PA, 62 H, 13 HR, 40 RBI, .222/.323/.410, 111 wRC+, 0.6 WAR 2021: 381 PA, 89 H, 29 HR, 59 RBI, .274/.378/.597, 157 wRC+, 3.4 WAR 2022: 298 PA, 54 H, 14 HR,…

The Toronto Blue Jays are betting big on themselves come 2023. Bringing in three new position players into their everyday lineup, Toronto opted for a fairly massive roster overhaul after a disappointing end to the 2022 season that saw them crash out of the playoffs with a Wild Card series sweep loss against the Seattle Mariners. While names like…

The Toronto Blue Jays aim to split their four-game series against the Minnesota Twins with a win on Sunday. The pregame narrative: The Blue Jays have now lost consecutive games for the first time since John Schneider took over as manager on July 13. The team will need a strong bounce-back performance to avoid losing its first series under the new…

John E. Sokolowski / USA TODAY Sports The Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night thumped the visiting St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 10-3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 21st home run of the season, and George Springer broke things open with this sixth-inning grand slam: The win was the Jays' seventh in a row. They're now 11 games over.500 and in…

2022 Blue Jays Retrospective: Things go south, Charlie Montoyo takes the fall, and more Over the next few days, we'll be taking a look back at the year that was for the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto hit the "dog days" of summer in June. Emotionally derailing series' against the Yankees, Brewers, and White Sox triggered a multitude of question marks…

In what is a slow news week for Seattle sports, I figured I'd take more Twitter questions for a mailbag. I covered a number of Mariners, Seahawks and other topics in my responses below. Thanks to everyone who participated, and Happy Holidays! Let's begin. I remain steadfast that the Mariners should have been all in on Carlos Correa given their need…

SAN DIEGO - After a 32-homer, 97-RBI season last year, there were plenty of people wondering exactly what happened to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in 2022. The Toronto Blue Jays All-Star certainly wasn't bad, but he didn't live up to his 2021 numbers. The previous season had set the bar high for the 23-year-old Guerrero, after finishing second in the…

So much for Don Mattingly rejoining the Yankees as a YES Network broadcaster. Instead, Donnie Baseball will be looking to beat the Yankees as a rival coach. While reportedly on YES Network's radar, Mattingly joined the Toronto Blue Jays as bench coach for manager John Schneider, the club announced Wednesday morning. Mattingly, 61, has managed in…

This is the first time since 2016 that the Blue Jays will host a postseason game at Rogers Centre. They welcome to the north the Seattle Mariners in an intriguing AL Wild Card Series. The winner gets to face the Astros in the next round. Here we'll discuss our Toronto Blue Jays AL Wild Card Series predictions as they take on the Mariners. The old…

Two familiar foes in the Toronto Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay rays will meet for the first of a short two-game series that has major playoff implications on Tuesday. Join us for our MLB odds series, where our Blue Jays-Rays prediction and pick will be revealed for all to see. Entering today's matchup, the Blue Jays are fresh off of winning three out…

Considering the team's preseason expectations, the Toronto Blue Jays have to be disappointed with their 50-43 record and the fact that an American League East title is all but out of reach. That said, the team remains in playoff position, and FanGraphs is currently giving them an 87.5% chance to make the postseason. There's plenty of runway for…

TORONTO - It is the privilege and bane of MLB closers that, when the most meaningful moments and fate-changing postseason events occur, they're the ones with the ball in their hand. They begin the chain of events that are remembered forever. They wear the glory or the heartbreak. And so, as the final four Seattle Mariners crossed home Saturday,…

The Toronto Blue Jays played 18 innings of playoff baseball, and won the middle 15 of them by a score of 8-6. The start and the end of their postseason? Not so great. But such is the nature of Major League Baseball in the expanded-playoffs era. A team that is built to win over the slog of 162 regular-season games, and which does a fine job of that…

Adam Frazier hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the ninth inning, and the visiting Seattle Mariners erased a seven-run deficit and topped the Toronto Blue Jays 10-9 on Saturday for a sweep of their American League wild-card series. It was the biggest road comeback win in playoff history and baseball's largest comeback victory to clinch a postseason…

Who in the world would have envisioned this? One full week-plus into October there were still two managers with "interim" tags who awoke on Friday not fearing the guillotine. Rather, the two were as frisky as fillies and as happy as larks. Or should we say more precisely, they were as frisky as Phillies, and their fans, as Philadelphia's own Rob…

After two decades of futility, frustration, and plenty of hope deferred, the Seattle Mariners have broken their long standing playoff drought. They've come close before, as recently as last year, but this season was different. After their July hot streak and an equally good August, making the postseason seemed like an inevitability, even if there…

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Keep up to date with what's happening in esports by subscribing here. The transition from baseball's regular season to the postseason is fast enough to give you whiplash. The 162-game slog is over, and suddenly most of the remaining teams are one loss away from being one loss…

The third game of today's Wild Card MLB Playoffs slate pits the Seattle Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Mariners finally ended their 21-year postseason drought this year but will now have to travel to Toronto to face the Blue Jays who won 92 games in a loaded AL East. This MLB betting preview for the AL Wild Card MLB Playoffs Mariners…

The Seattle Mariners will travel across the border to take on the Toronto Blue Jays in the first of a best-of-three Wild Card Playoff series on Friday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Mariners-Blue Jays prediction and pick, laid out below. Seattle finished the season with a 90-72 record,…

BALTIMORE - Call it a mild-mannered warning - or at leasta declaration of confidence - issued from Blue Jays interim manager John Schneider on Wednesday. With preparations fully underway for a playoff showdown with the Seattle Mariners starting on Friday, Schneider promised it will be a different team than the one that came up lame against MLB's…

There's symmetry in the Toronto Blue Jays (92-70) and Seattle Mariners (90-72) meeting in the AL Wild Card playoffs. Both teams entered as MLB expansion franchises in 1977. As the only Canadian MLB franchise, the Blue Jays literally are Canada's team. However, Seattle's proximity to Canada has created pockets of Mariners fans in British…

The 12-team field is now set for the Major League Baseball playoffs, and it's time to examine odds to win the 2022 World Series, as well as the obstacles each team faces in its quest to win the title. The regular season is scheduled to conclude Wednesday followed by four best-of-three wild-card round series commencing Friday. As of midday Tuesday,…

The Toronto Blue Jays have clinched the No. 1 wild-card seed but have two more games to wrap up against the Baltimore Orioles before the real fun begins. The pregame narrative: Mitch White has struggled in a Jays uniform but should have a long leash in a meaningless game. Baltimore's Adley Rutschman and Ryan Mountcastle are in a position to pad…

Who: New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays When: Tuesday, Sept. 27 Time: 7:07 p.m. EDT Where: Rogers Centre (Toronto, ON) Betting Odds Summary Moneyline: Yankees -112, Blue Jays -104 Runline: Yankees -1.5 (+142), Blue Jays+1.5 (-172) Total: Over/Under 8 Runs (-108/-112) The sooner Aaron Judge hits homers No. 61 and 62, the better. It's starting to…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Given that the process of getting the ball out of Alek Manoah's hands seven innings into a game can be a chore, imagine suggesting to the Blue Jays right-hander that he take an extra day off? That's precisely what the team has done here in a crucial four-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays, pushing his next outing to…

From the time he was four years old, when September came around P.K. Subban knew what team he was going to be playing for. In his early years in the GTHL, there was annual demand for Subban's immense talents. The phone calls were many. The annual recruitment was heavy. And then he became an NHL player, a legend of sorts, a magazine cover waiting to…

The Toronto Blue Jays were one of the heavy favorites to win the American League entering the season. There were a plethora of problems throughout the season, starting with the manager switch from Charlie Montoyo to John Schneider. That move propelled the Blue Jays to a better position and primed them to make some noise in the postseason. Pitching…

The Blue Jays didn't need to go deep to beat the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday. Hours after belting three home runs to beat the Orioles on Friday night, the Jays kept it in the park at the Rogers Centre, manufacturing runs at opportune times to win 6-3. Before a crowd of 44448, Jays starter Jose Berrios (11-5), had some bumps but got the job done,…

In Friday night MLB action, the Baltimore Orioles will invade the Rogers Centre to take on the Toronto Blue Jays. The Orioles (75-67) are three games below.500 on the road and trail Tampa Bay by 4.5 games for the final AL Wild Card spot. On Wednesday, 3B Gunnar Henderson drove in four runs to power Baltimore to a 6-2 road victory against…

Yusei Kikuchi can still do plenty of damage in a bullpen game. With the Jays trotting out their weakest pitching, they could be in for mounds of trouble, which is why we're targeting the Pirates for tonight's MLB picks. The Toronto Jays have moved from a -230 favorite last night to -165 favorites today vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates, and all of that…