Toronto Blue Jays 2015 Season

[DJMason]

Haven't checked in in a while but...IT'S ALL HAPPENING! And I'm going to the game tonight.

So. Stoked.

[Legends66NBA7]

The Blue Jays best offensive game yet. Special day for EE.

[Legends66NBA7]

Great game to be at today. Free jersey and another sweep.


Hope the Jays can get win #22 in August tomorrow.

[Dr.Funk]

Mark Shapiro is going to be named the new Blue Jays president

[Zan Tabak]

I'm in love with Josh Donaldson.

[BRabbiT]

WOW. 90-65

[RaininThrees]

We did it, you guys.

[Toni]

We did it, you guys.

I feel good as a sports fan. For once in 26 years.

[BRabbiT]

TOR wins. NYY & KC lose.

1st in the AL. Magic # is 2 for the ALE

[BRabbiT]

@BlueJays
10:05pm

With the Yankees' loss tonight, the magic number is now at ONE!! #cometogether

[Qwyjibo]

Luckily I don't have to work tomorrow. Luckily...

[BRabbiT]

Congrats to these guys....what a year!! AL East Champs!!!!!

[Legends66NBA7]

[Jballer]

Having said that...

Baltimore was 96 - 66 and I will suggest the under

Yankees finished 84 - 78 and very much under

Blue Jays were 83 - 79 last season... I am reasonably sure that the overall talent is 4 + games better

Tampa was 77 - 85 ~ bet the under

BoSox finshed 71 - 91 ~ I think I would bet up to 82 games but their magin is also razor thin.

The Jays should face each of the above about 10 times (but not the Yankees??) and a 4 game favorable swing in division against Tampa / Baltimore / Boston is a reasonable expectation out of this team.

They also get a fair number of games verse Miami, NYMets, Twins, and Indians with only a handful vs Tigers / Rangers. I am not following improvements in the Marlins, Mets, Twins, Indians but I suspect a 4 game favorable swing is possible in out of division play.

Between the 2 ~ 88 games seems right to me. But as agreed upon frankly it is marginally thin as that is based on few injuries and "pitcher adjustments"... the young guys will have to pitch through and not get smoked by season end as big league hitters learn to read them and target their stuff.

Well not bad preseason pics but I obviously under estimated the Yankee's.

The razor thin margin of error was accurate frankly right up to the "trades".

[BRabbiT]

Price will not pitch again in regular season

Gibbons said Price would not start another game until the post-season.

"He's well over 200 innings," Gibbons said. "Hopefully he makes a handful more starts. We need him to be good & fresh when the games count."

Price was set to start on Thursday but was pushed back after Toronto secured the AL East title.

He's expected to throw a simulated game before he makes his playoff start on Thursday, Oct. 8 at the Rogers Centre.

Tulowitzki expected to make return Saturday

Tulowitzki's batting practice session in the cages Thursday went well. Toronto plans to have the all-star shortstop face live pitching in a simulated game Friday before an expected return Saturday against Tampa Bay.

The Blue Jays planned to bring a couple of pitchers down to Tropicana Field from their instructional league workouts in nearby Dunedin, Fla., in order to give Tulowitzki a look at some real pitching before returning to the field.

He suffered a fractured left scapula, or shoulder blade, Sept. 12.

Juror excused from murder trial to catch Jays game

A prospective juror successfully used the Toronto's upcoming playoff run as a reason not to be a jury member in an Ottawa murder trial.

The man, who had already been selected as a juror on a previous day, sent a note to Justice Patrick Smith explaining he has tickets to the Oct. 8 playoff game in Toronto.

"I've waited 20 years for a moment like this," the man wrote in the note, which the judge read in court at the beginning of the trial Thursday.

The judge & the lawyers agreed to release the man from his civic duty.

"Hope you enjoy the game," the judge said affably before the man left the courtroom & was replaced by an awaiting alternate juror.

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