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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…

For MLB fans waiting with bated breath for the new season, there is some good news. The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is returning in 2023 and will feature a slurry of prime MLB talent. The 2023 World Baseball Classic will be played between March 8th and March 21st, 2023, at stadiums around the USA, Japan, and Taiwan. It is carefully planned to take…

The New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays will finish their three-game series with a Wednesday night matchup at Rogers Centre in Toronto. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Yankees-Blue Jays prediction and pick, laid out below. New York clinched the American League East with last night's 5-2 victory…

The Toronto Blue Jays are enjoying a successful season. They are 10 games over.500 and playing a quality brand of baseball. However, they happen to play in the AL East. As a result, they sit 12.5 games behind the elite New York Yankees. Toronto may not be able to catch the Yankees for the division lead, but they have to start thinking of ways to…

The first batch of MLB all-star voting results was revealed this week, which gives us a perfect opportunity to talk about the Toronto Blue Jays' brightest star. Of course, we mean Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who owns a 1.048 OPS this month. If your mind first drifted to Alejandro Kirk, don't worry - we'll mention him, too. As Toronto enjoys Thursday's…

The Toronto Blue Jays largely have the results you'd expect through the team's first 10 games of the season. Going 6-4 with two home series wins and a road split against a tough divisional opponent sounds about right for the Blue Jays. But it doesn't necessarily reflect where the team is at. The Blue Jays have a minus-three run differential, and…

The Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles will square off in an AL East matchup Wednesday night in Baltimore. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Blue Jays-Orioles prediction and pick, laid out below. The Toronto Blue Jays have catapulted back into the playoff race, with a 75-60 record that puts…

The Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays will finish their epic five-game series at the Rogers Centre on Thursday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Rays-Blue Jays prediction and pick, laid out below. Tampa Bay has lost two in a row in this series, falling to 79-63, seven and a half games…

The Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays will wrap up their three-game series in Toronto on Wednesday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes an Orioles-Blue Jays prediction and pick we have laid out below. Baltimore continues to dazzle after the All-Star break, with their 61-55 record placing…

If you play Fantasy Baseball, this is the page you'll want to bookmark for hot stove season. It's where you'll find our breakdown of the biggest moves -- i.e., the ones with serious implications for Fantasy Baseball. You'll of course want to check back throughout winter, into next year and in the lead up to spring training. Offseason movement tends…

Look for your mobile phone to light up with news updates this week as the Winter Meetings unfold in San Diego. The Toronto Blue Jays are going to be front and centre, as they look to upgrade their roster and take advantage of a closing competitive window led by star players like Bo Bichette, Vlad Guerrero, and Alek Manoah. Bichette will be a free…

A postseason berth in the shortened pandemic campaign of 2020 helped advance the Toronto Blue Jays' timeline, and now they enter the new season as a team to watch in the American League. While it's fair to wonder whether they would have made the playoffs under normal circumstances, and if the stat lines of certain players would have leveled off…

After a slow-to-develop off-season, there has finally been some movement in Major League Baseball's free agency, and with the annual winter meetings just around the corner, the pace might be about to pick up even more. This week saw veteran slugger José Abreu join the Houston Astros on a three-year deal worth $60 million (all figures US).…

A bounce-back from the depths of rebuild purgatory should start in 2020 for the Toronto Blue Jays, who firmly believe the arrow on their trajectory is pointed up after three years of struggle, torment and pain. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, Cavan Biggio, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Danny Jansen, among others, were all integrated during a…

963Toronto Blue Jays -1.5(+105) -152 8.0(+100) -155 4.0(-110) 964Cleveland Indians+1.5(-125)+131 Un 8.0(-120)+135 Un 4.0(-110) When: May 5, 2022, at 6:10 p.m. EST Venue: Progressive Field - Cleveland, OH An American League battle gets going Thursday night when the Toronto Blue Jays (16-10, 6-4 away) visit the Cleveland Guardians (11-13, 4-4 home).…

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…

Through 30 games, the Blue Jays remain in second in 2022 World Series odds. Trailing only the Dodgers (+400), Toronto is tied with the Mets and Yankees at+750 to win the title this season, per SI Sportsbook. The Blue Jays' odds imply an 11.76% chance at a World Series victory for Toronto in 2022. Sitting at 17-13 and third in the American League…

Later this evening, the Toronto Blue Jays will be facing the Texas Rangers at the Rogers Centre, the first home opener on Canadian soil since 2019 due to Covid-19 restrictions forcing the club south of the border the last two years. This has fans excited, not just because baseball is back after the lockout negotiations had things looking bleak this…

The New York Yankees (31-23) and Toronto Blue Jays (28-26) play Game 2 of a four-game series Tuesday at Toronto's temporary 2020 home, Sahlen Field in Buffalo. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. ET. Below, we analyze the Yankees-Blue Jays MLB betting odds and lines, with picks and best bets. Monday: The Blue Jays won 11-5. Playoff picture: With six…

The Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles will finish their regular seasons with a three-game series at Camden Yards in Baltimore. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Blue Jays-Orioles prediction and pick, laid out below. Toronto has gone 90-69, good for second place in the AL East and the top spot…

The Oakland Athletics continue their three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon at the Rogers Centre. It's time to continue our MLB odds series with an Athletics-Blue Jays prediction and pick. The Blue Jays defeated the Athletics 4-1 on Friday night. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. started the scoring by sailing a 2-2 pitch…

The Boston Red Sox (7-11) will try to halt a four-game losing skid on Wednesday against the Toronto Blue Jays (12-6), with first pitch at 7:07 PM ET at Rogers Centre. The Red Sox are road favorites (+122) versus the Blue Jays (-143). The Toronto Blue Jays will hand the ball to Ross Stripling (0-0, 1.88 ERA) looking for win No. 1 on the season, and…

The Toronto Blue Jays return to Rogers Centre on Monday for a 10-game homestand, beginning with a three-game set against the Boston Red Sox. The pregame narrative: Both teams are sending their Opening Day starters to the hill with Jose Berrios getting the nod against Nathan Eovaldi. Two of the American League's top pitchers in 2021 have combined…

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…

This time last year, the Toronto Blue Jays were on the outside looking in when it came to playoff baseball. The Tampa Bay Rays had locked up the AL East and the Boston Red Sox were sitting first in the AL Wild Card while the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners were tied for the second spot. The Blue Jays were sitting a game back, a trend that…

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…

Just one season ago, the Atlanta Braves proved how important a team's bullpen can be in today's MLB during their World Series run. Postseason games can be won or lost by arms coming out of the back-end of the'pen and this year 11 of the 12 teams playing for the title finished the regular season with the top-14 bullpens by ERA. While some starters…

The first round of the postseason begins this weekend, so naturally, that means it's time for some predictions. This year is the first with the expanded 12-team format, where the top two teams in each league get first-round byes, leaving the remaining clubs to play in the best-of-three Wild-Card Seres. The winner of the Guardians-Rays series will…

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 prize for winning an AL Wild Card Series is being an underdog against either the Yankees or Astros, but we still have four interesting teams set for best-of-three series in the first year of MLB's new postseason format. The Rays and Guardians actually met in 2013, which was the second year of the winner-take-all, one-game wild-card "round."…

The Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners play their Wild Card Series this weekend, starting with Game 1 on Friday. Oddsmakers at Caesars Sportsbook have a series price of Blue Jays -160/Mariners+140. That means a $100 bet on Seattle to win the best-of-three series would pay $140, while a winning $160 bet on Toronto would result in a $100…

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,…

The New York Yankees are over the border to face the Toronto Blue Jays in the second of a three-game series on Tuesday night at the Rogers Centre. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Yankees-Blue Jays prediction and pick, laid out below. The Yankees had their seven-game losing streak snapped last…

The New York Yankees will cross the border and take on the Toronto Blue Jays in a three-game series beginning Monday night in Toronto. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Yankees-Blue Jays prediction and pick, laid out below. The Yankees, winners of seven games in a row, currently lead the AL East…

Sometime in the next two weeks, the debate will start in earnest: Who do the Blue Jays send out as starter for Game 1 of a best-of-three wildcard playoff round? Among the coaching staff and management, those discussions have already begun, of course, with all contingencies accounted for. "We've got to look at the remaining schedule and look at some…

The Yankees thankfully made scoreboard watching a little less stressful yesterday, overcoming an early deficit and to power past the Brewers and salvage a game in Milwaukee. Still, the AL East is not yet in the bag, and they'd still like to see their rivals drop some ground in order to put the division on ice. Here's what happened on…

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 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,…

Baseball fans get twice the action at Camden Yards on Monday, as the Blue Jays and Orioles meet for Game 2 of their doubleheader this afternoon. The pregame narrative: Toronto entered the day with a 2.5-game lead on the Orioles for the final wild-card spot. After today, these teams will still face each other eight more times in the regular season,…

As my father used to say, "even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and then", which is a sentiment that applies to my 2021 Blue Jays predictions. I was surprised to learn that I was correct on four out of five of my predictions for last season, and even a little touched that our own Dave Corcoran decided to review that piece from a little…

No. 4 Seattle Mariners over No. 5 Tampa Bay Rays These two teams are neck-and-neck right now, virtually tied for the AL's No. 4 seed. But based on the difficulty of their respective remaining schedules, Seattle should finish comfortably ahead of Tampa Bay to secure home field for the entirety of this best-of-three series. And that's a huge deal for…

The Blue Jays have only managed a 14-11 record in games started by Gausman this season, 14 of which have been of quality vintage. Toronto has been especially sharp with the 31-year-old on the bump of late, winning five of his six August turns. That recent stretch includes three victories in a row. Despite allowing two home runs, Gausman is coming…

The Baltimore bullpen is a desolate and nearly uninhabitable landscape where young and ineffective pitchers go to get lit up. Our MLB picks for today's game expects the Blue Jays to get to that bullpen early - and proceed to light them up. The Toronto Blue Jays kept their season alive last night, thanks to some unsung heroes who helped knock off…

Few expected the Cleveland Guardians to be in the running for the American Central division this late in the season, but here we are. Some viewed the Guardians as a potential wild card contender, thanks mainly to the expanded postseason format. The Chicago White Sox, by far baseball's most disappointing team of 2022, were the heavy favorites to win…

September is upon us, which means that the MLB season gets a little more tense as teams around the league fight tooth-and-nail for playoff positioning. The Toronto Blue Jays are among the teams in for a stressful stretch run as the club sits 70-59 - two games below the top wild-card spot and two games ahead of the pesky Baltimore Orioles, who could…

The Toronto Blue Jays have done all their damage against the Cubs' relievers in this series and won't have to wait long to face their relief corps tonight with Chicago deploying a bullpen day. We like the Jays to score early and often in our betting picks. Up and down and up and down. The roller coaster that is the Toronto Blue Jays' season…