Keegan Matheson

This time, Shohei Ohtani is on the flight to Toronto. The Dodgers’ charter pointed north after their series in Washington wrapped on Thursday, setting up a weekend series that Blue Jays fans have had circled in red since the day Shohei Ohtani went from the next great hope of the

KANSAS CITY -- Bigger, faster, stronger, Barger. Addison Barger hit the Blue Jays like a 12-pack of Red Bull on Wednesday in Kansas City, jittering with life, fresh off 20 minutes of sleep and running on “adrenaline and caffeine”. The Blue Jays’ No. 6 prospect got the call just before

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KANSAS CITY -- While Daulton Varsho and his teammates are building their early cases for a Gold Glove Award, the Blue Jays added a green one to the mantle. The Blue Jays have been named the recipient of the 2023 Green Glove Award, which recognizes the MLB club that “demonstrates

TORONTO -- Yusei Kikuchi has both hands on the wheel now. The feel-good story of Kikuchi’s 2023 resurgence has spilled into a new year, but there are no more pleasant surprises. Kikuchi is in full control. The expectations are high, and Kikuchi just keeps reaching higher. Tuesday night’s 5-4 win

TORONTO -- How do you take your post-game whisky: neat or on the rocks? After last week’s win in New York, Yusei Kikuchi reached deep into his locker for a bottle of Yamazaki, one of Japan’s finest whiskies. It’s part of a new tradition in Toronto’s clubhouse. When Kikuchi starts

TORONTO -- How do you take your post-game whisky: neat or on the rocks? After last week’s win in New York, Yusei Kikuchi reached deep into his locker for a bottle of Yamazaki, one of Japan’s finest whiskies. It’s part of a new tradition in Toronto’s clubhouse. When Kikuchi starts

TORONTO -- It felt like a WWE entrance. My god, that’s Yariel’s music! Yariel Rodríguez appeared out of the Blue Jays’ dugout and skipped across the turf in four sideways gallops before he spit water into the air and bolted for the mound. If this were the main event, Rodríguez

TORONTO -- Some ballplayers can see the future. It’s more of a feeling, really, like an old farmer who knows that Friday will bring rain because he has that sore feeling in his knuckles again. Each hitter hints in his own way, and for great hitters, those hints are more

TORONTO -- Any renovation needs good bones. Without a strong foundation, a sturdy frame and a floor plan that flows, all of the aesthetic upgrades won’t matter much. When the Blue Jays brought back a near-identical roster for 2024, they bet on their bones. Sure, they swapped out some wooden

NEW YORK -- The big hit always wins, especially if there’s a little “damage” involved. Big hits come in all shapes and sizes, but home runs play the role best, and in the Blue Jays’ 8-3 loss to the Yankees on Sunday, it was Giancarlo Stanton’s mammoth grand slam. Even

NEW YORK -- The big hit always wins, especially if there’s a little “damage” involved. Big hits come in all shapes and sizes, but home runs play the role best, and in the Blue Jays’ 8-3 loss to the Yankees on Sunday, it was Giancarlo Stanton’s mammoth grand slam. Even

NEW YORK -- To understand one worrying start by Kevin Gausman, let’s flip the calendar back exactly one year to last April 6. That day in Kansas City, Gausman’s velocity dropped enough to raise some eyebrows, but those numbers weren’t canaries in the coal mine warning of something worse to

NEW YORK -- Alek Manoah started his Minor League rehab assignment down in Single-A Dunedin on Sunday, far from the cold competition at Yankee Stadium, and it didn’t go how anyone planned. Manoah walked the first four batters he faced, throwing just two strikes in his first 18 pitches. His

This story was excerpted from Keegan Matheson’s Blue Jays Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. NEW YORK -- Throwing 100 mph is sexy. A 90-mph slider that snaps violently away from a hitter’s bat for strike three? That’s

ST. PETERSBURG -- The old Yusei Kikuchi might have unraveled completely, then spent the next five days thinking about it. Kikuchi wasn’t at his very best in Saturday’s 5-1 loss to the Rays, but as you can tell from that “1”, neither was the Blue Jays’ offense. A new year

ST. PETERSBURG -- It’s typically a compliment to say that a pitcher shoved. Well, not this time. Toronto reliever Génesis Cabrera was ejected from Saturday’s 5-1 Rays win over the Blue Jays after a sudden, two-handed shove to the face and neck of Tampa Bay’s José Caballero that caused both

ST. PETERSBURG -- It’s typically a compliment to say that a pitcher shoved. Well, not this time. Toronto reliever Génesis Cabrera was ejected from Saturday’s 5-1 Rays win over the Blue Jays after a sudden, two-handed shove to the face and neck of Tampa Bay’s José Caballero that caused both

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- It looked like Justin Turner was out on the driving range, working his way through his bag. First came the irons, a looping single into left field to put the Blue Jays on the board. Then, he reached for his three wood, roping a line drive

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- It looked like Justin Turner was out on the driving range, working his way through his bag. First came the irons, a looping single into left field to put the Blue Jays on the board. Then, he reached for his three wood, roping a line drive