2025 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[KootenayFlamesFan]

On a positive note, another win and another huge game from Kirk. Dude is on a serious heater.

[Hockey]

Rays finally lost too

[ben voyonsdonc]

Resilience has been one of the missing ingredients from this team. They are showing that they aren’t going to roll over when things don’t go in their favour.

In a 162 game season, it is going to be a roller coaster and a lot of things will break against you. The great teams find ways to adjust and keep on rolling. The Jays have started to show flashes of a resilient team mentality and let’s hope that keeps on going.

[Inferno]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1932654303371546799

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Inferno

https://twitter.com/user/status/1932654303371546799

That's interesting, I wonder who is going down. It's not like we have a shortage of outfielders right now.

Edited to add: or maybe Lukes is going on the IL. That's probably it, he missed yesterday.

[KelVarnsen]

Half of the team is outfielders at this point

[Karl]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

That's interesting, I wonder who is going down. It's not like we have a shortage of outfielders right now.

Edited to add: or maybe Lukes is going on the IL. That's probably it, he missed yesterday.

Correct. Lukes has just been placed on the 7-day IL with a concussion.

[Karl]

LOL Heineman.

Gets a dinker ground ball called a double at least for now.

[Karl]

Welp. Now they've changed that Heineman double to an error.

[Karl]

Great bunt Heineman!

[Karl]

Yes Vladdy!

[Old Yeller]

That was great small ball by the Jays... this team looks completely different than the last time I watched them.

[Karl]

Good to get this series win before heading to Philly.

Sweep is the bonus.

[flamingred89]

Man. What a great game. What a great series. What a turnaround for this team. There are some seriously good vibes around them.

And don't look now but they are creeping into the top 10 in all major offensive categories. Who would've thought.

[Roof-Daddy]

It's funny this team is doing so well now and yet Vladdy is putzing along not doing much, Santander is a team worst -0.9 fWAR and they only have 3/5ths of a rotation. If Scherzer and/or Manoah come back through the summer and provide decent starting pitching this team might really start to roll. Maybe Vlad and Santander heat up like they did in the 2nd half last year as well.

Meanwhile, I don't think many here do much prospect watching but there are a ton of positive things happening down there as well. AA has one heck of a rotation going right now, and there are a couple arms at A+ that probably need promotion too, but AA is already stacked. Some of this might bleed onto the MLB roster by seasons end.

Plus a lot of bats are making noise down there too. A couple guys recently got bumped to AAA after putting up massive numbers at AA and they haven't slowed down at all at the higher level so far.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Yeah. Next two weeks all 4 teams they're playing are currently holding playoff spots. If they can goo 500 the next two weeks that would be a big win.

And then the next 8 series up to the all-star break have only two playoff teams, so they have a real chance to make a run there. Those eight series have quite a few weaker teams (2x white sox, angels, As), so if they can stay afloat the next two weeks hopefully they can do some damage before the break.

This has gone better than I expected. I would have been happy with 6-7 wins over the 12 games/4 series. They have 7 wins out of the first 9 games/3 series. Even if they only got one from Philly that's easily playoff calibre baseball, and the level of difficulty goes down quite a bit after.

Although the Cards have now lost 4 in a row with the sweep and are no longer a playoff team...

[activeStick]

Boy, these Jays are hot!

[Inferno]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1932908741198041214

[Andrew]

The key is just staying .500 plus rest of year...easier said than done! I believe

[flamingred89]

Looks like the universe is aligning with the AL East teams all getting relatively hot and the AL Central teams falling back to reality. It was wild seeing all three wild card spots occupied by the Central. Now the Jays and Rays comfortably occupy two of those spots. Must be nice having a doormat like the White Sox to boost the win column from time to time.