3 h. ago SIMMONS: Is Blue Jays young star Trey Yesavage a modern day Ken Dryden?

It’s too late for Ken Dryden to meet Trey Yesavage. It’s too late for him to explain how it was that he came up to the Montreal Canadiens with just six games remaining in the 1971 National Hockey League season and then against all odds led the Habs to the Stanley Cup. This is just […]

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17 h. ago SIMMONS: Logical, uncomfortable call by Jays to go with Yesavage over Scherzer, Bassitt

Trey Yesavage has made three major-league starts. His fourth will come on Sunday afternoon on the largest of stages — an American League Division Series playoff start — against the New York Yankees. Combined, Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt have started 692 big league games, thrown for some 4,231 innings. The first inning in Game […]

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26 h. ago SIMMONS: Textbook triumph by Blue Jays with big plays up and down lineup

Aaron Judge walked to the plate, based loaded, none out, sixth inning, the sold out crowd near silent and John Schneider for wanted to be sick. For the moment, anyhow. Nathan Lukes already felt sick — and it had nothing to do with the game situation. “I was under the weather already,” he said. “Just […]

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58 h. ago SIMMONS: Yankees MVP Aaron Judge vs. Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. the ALDS main event

SIMMONS: Massive matchup should define playoff series between AL East rivals.

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4 d. ago SIMMONS: How much credit should Shapiro and Atkins get for Blue Jays historic year?

Toronto completed a rare worst-to-first turnaround to win the AL East division title.

Economics

6 d. ago SIMMONS: How Alejandro Kirk’s home runs fit nicely into Blue Jays history

Sunday's two home runs place catcher on a short list of all-time Toronto Blue Jays home run moments.

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7 d. ago SIMMONS: Not even Edward Rogers could have imagined a Blue Jays season like this one

In early April, Edward Rogers made a rare public appearance as chairman of the Blue Jays and actually spoke about winning a World Series. He sounded serious, even though no one took him all that seriously on that day. The words seemed like hopeful fluff on the day that Rogers committed some $500 million to […]

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9 d. ago SIMMONS: This wild, crazy Blue Jays race for first now comes down to Kid Yesavage

There is a laptop plugged in beside a tablet, beside another tablet — and no paper anywhere — on the rather organized desk belonging to John Schneider. It gives the false impression that there isn’t panic and disorder almost everywhere with the Blue Jays as Game 161 of the Major League season approaches Saturday afternoon. […]

Society

3 w. ago SIMMONS: Blue Jays’ Heineman has his Crash Davis moment in 14th pro season

Tyler Heineman has a long list of change of address cards. He’s spent his summers in his share of good hotels and bad motels. He’s lived in a whole bunch of good and bad apartments. He’s moved from Tri-City to Lancaster to Corpus Christi to Lehigh Valley to Fresno to Biloxi. City to city. State […]

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3 w. ago SIMMONS: Blue Jays’ Tyler Heineman has his Crash Davis moment in 14th pro season

Tyler Heineman has a long list of change of address cards. He’s spent his summers in his share of good hotels and bad motels. He’s lived in a whole bunch of good and bad apartments. He’s moved from Tri-City to Lancaster to Corpus Christie to Lehigh Valley to Fresno to Biloxi. City to city. State […]

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