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The Season That Was: Kazuma Okamoto (opens the original)
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The Jays signed Kazuma Okamoto to a four-year, $60 million contract. He had played 11 seasons in the Nippon Professional Baseball League. He hit .322/.411/.581 with 15 home runs in 77 game there in 2025 and .280/.362/.505 with 27 home runs in 143 games in 2024. He had 248 career home runs. There were questions about his defense at third base, but most thought he would be able to hit. Steamer figured him to hit .251/.323/.446 with 22 home runs in 130 games. I guessed a .250 ish average with 25 ho
Open Thread For Wednesday’s Wild Card Games (opens the original)
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We have four game again. Same order as yesterday. The games were good yesterday. 2:00 Eastern: Phillies @ Braves. Braves won game one. Today it is Cristopher Sánchez (18-7, 2.91) vs. Tyler Mahle (7-10, 3.99) 5:00 Eastern: White Sox @ Astros. White Sox won game one, I thought it was the best game of the day. Sean Burke (11-7, 3.34) vs. Hunter Brown (6-4, 3.19). 8:00 Eastern: Red Sox @ Yankees. Yankees crushed the Red Sox yesterday. Always happy to see the Red Sox get thumped, but then it was the
Today in Blue Jays History: Jays Clinch Playoff Twice (opens the original)
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The Blue Jays clinched first place in the AL East by defeating the Orioles 4-3. A dramatic three-run rally in the eighth inning erased a 3-1 deficit and sealed the win. Jimmy Key started but was limited to four innings, surrendering eight hits and three earned runs, with no walks and six strikeouts. Frank Wills provided four shutout innings of relief, giving up just one hit. Tom Henke closed out the ninth for his 20th save. The eighth inning proved decisive. Nelson Liriano worked a walk against
Open Thread For Tuesday’s Wild Card Games (opens the original)
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Hagen Smith (3-3, 1.29 in 28 inning) is starting or opening for the White Sox. AJ Blubaugh (5-3, 3.66) also an opener for the Astros It seems a weird way to start a playoff series. Cam Schlittler (14-6, 1.95 in 33 starts). The old man in me wonders how a guy with 14 wins can get the Cy Young. Matthew Boyd (10-5, 3.91 in 22 starts). The former Blue Jays player. Starts for the Cubs. Michael King (12-10, 3.21 in 32 starts) goes for the Padres.
The Season That Was: Dylan Cease (opens the original)
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Each year, I look at how each Jays player performed during the season. We signed Dylan Cease on December 2nd last year. He got a seven-year, $210 million contract. I read a few baseball commentators call it the worst free-agent signing of the off-season. Right now, they appear very wrong. We disagreed. 42.9% of us were ‘Kind of Happy’, 41.8% were Very Happy. Only 5.1% were Kind of or Very Unhappy. Cease spent the previous two seasons with the Padres. He had a very good season in 2024, a 3.47 ERA
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