It’s Now or Never: Teams That Need to Win Now!
For these five teams, the future may be a long rebuild, so they need to win now.
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Tag Archives: Blue Jays
Buck Had A Plan And It Was A Good Plan
Get off Baltimore Orioles Manager Buck Showalter for his bullpen management…well sort of get off him. His team was tied 2-2 in the 11th inning of the American League Wild Card game. He trusted his team would find a way to score a run on a bullpen that had been ineffective, with the thought he could then bring in closer
Read moreStand Pat or Go for It? What Makes Sense with a One-Game Wild Card?
Ever since trading became a thing, teams have tried to improve their club in an effort to make the postseason, or win the postseason.
Read moreExpansion Teams – Win Now, Win Later, or Win Never?
Since 1961, we’ve been in the “Expansion Era” (among many), since that was the year that baseball moved past the ‘traditional’ 16 franchises to the 30 we have now. While some decry that ‘watering down’ of talent in the majors, they mostly can just yell at clouds and complain about the sex talk on Golden Girls. Baseball needed to expand.
Read moreBases Bloated: Everybody Hates José
Why does everyone hate José Bautista so much?
Read moreWhat We Learned on Opening Day
Sure, there were three games on Sunday, but yesterday was the big unveiling for 2016 and here’s what we took away from it.
Read moreBikinis and the Kansas City Royals
Despite seven playoff appearances from 1976 to ’85, no team in Royals history had been able to make back-to-back World Series appearances before Ned Yost’s club turned that particular trick the past two seasons.
Read morePat Hentgen on Jose Bautista’s Playoff Bat-Flip: “I didn’t like it”
Pat Hentgen won the 1996 American League Cy Young award and was a key component of the last Toronto Blue Jays team to win a World Series in 1993, efforts which resulted in Hentgen’s election into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
Read moreConfusing Blue Jays Spring Training Hat
I wanted to send a nice gift to my girlfriend who lives in Canada. (Her name is Alberta and she lives in Vancouver.) So, I sent her this new Blue Jays spring training cap.
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