2025 Toronto Blue Jays Season Thread

[ben voyonsdonc]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

Maybe not, but even if it stays at around $280 million they have roughly $60 million to spend as it sits right now.

I think they can get Bo for less than $30m per year. Bieber will be an interesting case.

Need to plug some holes in the rotation and bullpen. The rest of the team would be pretty much intact.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

The strike zone used by the ABS system is player specific. Each player has a strike zone created by the system and that is what is used to judge balls and strikes. The zone isn’t the same one used for a guy like Kirk and Aaron Judge. It is quite precise. https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/abs-cha...-mlb-2026.html

Don't know why they can't just give the home plate ump a smartwatch that they can look at to confirm a strike call. I would imagine the umps would prefer that too as it would remove any controversy over close calls

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by jayswin

That seems silly to implement a challenge system that uses a completely different criteria for balls and strikes from umpires?

It's no different than how VAR was rolled out in soccer. It was intended to be for "clear and obvious" errors by the referee and their assistants. When it came out, this is how it worked in practice, and marginal calls were left to stand, and the egregious stuff was called.

It was great, and ruined the game way less than it does today. Except there was a flaw, "egregious" to "borderline" itself has a grey zone, and things ended up moving to the same nitpick black/white methodology we see in other sports that takes forever and robs us of dramatic moments.

I think the idea as proposed for baseball is actually a clever way of taking out the grey line between "egregious" and "borderline", and thus makes it possible to keep review for obvious mistakes only.

[Inferno]

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[Josh]

Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

What makes Gametime so good? I'm curious.

It's not ticketmaster and just easy to use (some purchases are delivered via ticketmaster to my google wallet).

I've found some really good deals on it, even purchased my game 5 tickets on it.

Of course YMMV.

[kevman]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

Oh my

https://twitter.com/user/status/1980643264958218262

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

https://twitter.com/user/status/1980472965289636036

These amaze me. So last night had the single largest pivotal play in ALCS history, followed by a pitcher striking out the side to close out a 1 run game for the first time ever.

A truly historic game.

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

I think they can get Bo for less than $30m per year. Bieber will be an interesting case.

Need to plug some holes in the rotation and bullpen. The rest of the team would be pretty much intact.

I’m guessing because of Bo’s dad he will not sign a deal for under $40. And truly given his ability to get on base, he’s worth that money. Because sports copycats winning teams you can guarantee other teams will be chasing him bigtime, because of his ability to get on base. Yanks will pay for someone to take Volpe off their hands and he’ll land there, mark my words.

As for the Jays, I really feel they’d need to move on from Bieber. Consistency may be an issue going forward. Also I think they’ll need a fireballer or two (one legit ace and a set up reliever)

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Snell and Yamamoto will apparently start games 1 & 2 for the dodgers.

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by bluejays

I’m guessing because of Bo’s dad he will not sign a deal for under $40. And truly given his ability to get on base, he’s worth that money. Because sports copycats winning teams you can guarantee other teams will be chasing him bigtime, because of his ability to get on base. Yanks will pay for someone to take Volpe off their hands and he’ll land there, mark my words.

As for the Jays, I really feel they’d need to move on from Bieber. Consistency may be an issue going forward. Also I think they’ll need a fireballer or two (one legit ace and a set up reliever)

Bo might be able to get 30 from someone , I don’t see him getting any more.

He is the worse defensive SS in the league . He can’t run anymore . He doesn’t walk .

His closest compatible as a recent free agent is Willy Adames who put up an almost identical WAR as Bo this year

He signed a 7 year 182 deal (26 a year ) that already looks disastrous

Bo is 2 years younger than when he signed the deal though , but literally doesn’t have a position to play . He has zero range so also isn’t good for 2B , so really he needs to become a 3B but his arm also isn’t great

I guess Dodgers and Yankees could decide they need a SS and get into a bidding war

[ben voyonsdonc]

Originally Posted by bluejays

I’m guessing because of Bo’s dad he will not sign a deal for under $40. And truly given his ability to get on base, he’s worth that money. Because sports copycats winning teams you can guarantee other teams will be chasing him bigtime, because of his ability to get on base. Yanks will pay for someone to take Volpe off their hands and he’ll land there, mark my words.

The comparable short stops simply aren’t making $40m. I think Bo’s back at a fair market value deal.

[Jiggy_12]

We likely never get that Springer Dinger ‘where were you when’ memory if that game 5 meltdown never happens.

The lowest of lows sets the stage for the highest of highs in a game 7 at home.

Sports are super weird

[bluejays]

I certainly hope both if you are right, as i want him back. But considering Vlad got a 15 year deal, I can see one of the big boys ponying up the cash and doing this for something crazy like a 10 year deal. To me all these deals past 7 years are terrible but such are the stakes. We’ll see but i don’t think management teams think about the ramifications post their tenure. Its someone elses problem to clean up

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

Maybe not, but even if it stays at around $280 million they have roughly $60 million to spend as it sits right now.

Regardless of this World Series goes, I'd really love if they went a little more all in next season and got an Ace and elite bat, if available.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by bluejays

Cool. Where were you in the queue? And how much were those tickets?

My wife was the one in the Queue as I was doing morning hockey/school drop off. We were going 17500 in the queue and it turns out she bought resale. Got a deal on the resale though. Only 1k per ticket low in the 500 level.

[jayswin]

Playoff revenue is tricky to find out in the MLB, however most teams with the Jays level of seats sold tend to make $7mil ish for regular season games and then $10-15mil mil divisional series, and up to $20mil per game conference finals. Plus playofff teams are taking in more boradcast money and other league split revneue during away games, too.

So just napkin math
3 home games division = $45mil
4 home games conference = $80mil

But the World series is where revenue is kind of neat and convoluted, and offers up a massive payout for the winning team.

The team retains 40% of the ticket revenue from the minimum number of games required to win each series, and 100% of the revenue from any additional games played beyond the minimum.
However, the total payout to players from the World Series is derived from a pool of 60% of the gate receipts from the minimum number of games in each round, with the winning team receiving 36% of the total postseason pool.
The total postseason pool for the 2024 playoffs reached a record $129.1 million, with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers receiving $46.47 million of that pool.

Imagine the Jays got another $60mil from say 3 home games, plus a $46mil winning bonus? They'd generate enough to almost pay off their 2026 roster.

[SuperMatt18]

I don't know how merch works in the MLB either but my guess is they are going to sell a #### ton of merch this offseason too

[3thirty]

Hoping prices drop, and they already have started. I think the die hards bought today, and then the scalpers slowly drop as demand slows. At least my hope anyway...

[3thirty]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

I don't know how merch works in the MLB either but my guess is they are going to sell a #### ton of merch this offseason too

World series gear went fast. I was able to order a few hats last night, but pretty much sold out already today. I"m sure they will restock and live at the game will have a ton I bet.

[Inferno]

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[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

I don't know how merch works in the MLB either but my guess is they are going to sell a #### ton of merch this offseason too

Don’t forget Rogers gets to sell commercial slots for every game as well