Coming off a shortened season where Blue Jays pitchers logged less then half of their usual inning totals, it'll be interesting to see how teams manage the...
... 1 ⅔, Ross Stripling with 49 ⅓, Tanner Roark with 47 ⅔, Thomas Hatch with 26, Shun Yamaguchi with 25 ⅔, Anthony Kay with 21, Nate Pearson with 18, Julian Merryweather wi ...
With the Pittsburgh Pirates shopping Joe Musgrove, the Toronto Blue Jays would make a perfect fit in a Musgrove trade for multiple reasons. The free agent ...
... Tom Hatch, Julian Merryweather, Anthony Kay, T.J. Zeuch, Ross Stripling and Shun Yamaguchi. Clearly, the Jays’ rotation needs some stability. Not only do they make a g ...
Thus far this offseason the Toronto Blue Jays have been the loveable losers of the teams vying for players on the open market. The Blue Jays are like a pup...
... n from the Pacific Rim. They are undoubtedly still a little gun shy from the Shun Yamaguchi experience of 2020. Then there is yesterdays kicker, that the Blue Jays actu ...
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... e big leagues as relievers, along with Borucki, Jordan Romano, Rafael Dolis, Shun Yamaguchi and Ross Stripling. And the starters, of course, would be Hyun Jin Ryu, Robb ...
It has been a demoralizing off-season thus far for Blue Jays fans.
... urther, they expanded into the Asian baseball markets which helped them land Shun Yamaguchi and Rafael Dolis last year, and got them very involved in the negotiations f ...
Thursday evening it was announced that highly profiled pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano was going to stay in Japan and forgo playing in North America for now. Early...
... who have signed new deals While the Blue Jays did acquire Sugano’s teammate Shun Yamaguchi last offseason, the two pitchers are on different spectrums of talent level. ...
The deadline to sign a deal with RHP Tomoyuki Sugano is this Thursday at 5PM. This is my plea to the Yankees to make an all-out, last minute push to get the star Japanese pitcher, while also explaining how his signing could provide a platform that...
... 18), Yusei Kikuchi has had an above 5.00 ERA in both of his MLB seasons, and Shun Yamaguchi had an 8.06 ERA over 25.2 innings last season. *Shohei Ohtani will likely br ...
Within 24 hours, Japanese ace Tomoyuki Sugano will have to make his final decision on where to pitch next year. Once he does, this slow-moving off-season will progress by at least a little bit.
... g presence in the Pacific Rim. One year in, the two-year, $6.35-million deal Shun Yamaguchi signed hasn't worked out, as the right-hander posted an 8.06 ERA with 17 wal ...
The Toronto Blue Jays have reportedly made a significant offer to Japanese pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano. According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Blue Ja...
... aggressive San Diego Padres. Toronto landed Sugano’s former Giants teammate Shun Yamaguchi last offseason when they inked the hurler to a two-year/ $6.35 million dolla ...
Sugano links, the relief market, Springer thoughts, Justin Turner, Corey Kluber, and other Jays-related rumblings from rumour mill
... onavirus infection,” Allen writes. Tom Mussa of Prospects Live goes into how Shun Yamaguchi sneakily turned the Giants into a team that posts its players (something the ...
I wonder how long it will be until the top free agents start signing? Spring training is a month and a half away. Will they all sign within a couple of weeks of it starting? Liam Hendriks toured...
... have a four year contract offer in Japan. We can use more starting pitching. Shun Yamaguchi didn’t exactly hit the ground running but Sungano is a much better pitcher. ...
The Blue Jays need to improve their pitching staff ahead of the 2021 season, and if they can't get the starters they seek, why not build a super-bullpen? S...
... s rely on that. It’s likely that the bullpen will also include Ryan Borucki, Shun Yamaguchi, and maybe Ross Stripling as long as he’s not being used as a starter. That’ ...
Hey there everybody, it’s good to be back. Now let’s dive right into this! Except for on Twitter, I haven’t written a word about the Toronto Blue Jays since October. That is by far the longest break I’ve taken since starting Drunk Jays Fans way back...
... me when I saw that in 2019 he was outpitched by his Yomiuri Giants teammate Shun Yamaguchi. *COUGH* To be fair, however, 2019 was injury-riddled, as he battled back an ...
Deadlines spur action, making the pending decision of Japanese right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano important for the Blue Jays, regardless of where he signs. Sugano was posted on Dec. 8 by his Nippon Professional Baseball club, the Yomiuri Giants, where he’s
... they dipped in last offseason. First, the club signed Japanese right-hander Shun Yamaguchi, also of Sugano’s Yomiuri Giants, then brought Dominican right-hander Rafael ...
