Mitch Bannon
@MitchBannon
⚾️ Blue Jays beat writer for @TheAthleticMLB • McGill, Syracuse • ✉️[email protected]
The #BlueJays win, again, 6-2 over the Tigers. They're 5 games up in the AL East, own the top record in the AL, and — at least for a day — are the best team in all of baseball.
Varsho has homered in his last three rehab games. Could return to #BlueJays in Baltimore next week.
OH MY VARSHO
Source confirms: Yankees acquiring 3B Ryan McMahon from Rockies. Exact return not yet known. First: @Feinsand
The Mets are acquiring left-handed reliever Gregory Soto from the Baltimore Orioles for Wellington Aracena and Cameron Foster, league sources confirmed. @martinonyc first on the move.
“He’s close to where he wants to be. His timing, the rhythm. He’s going to get there in September, the numbers are going to be there.” What to make of Vladdy’s 2025 season (it’s complicated) and the search for his ceiling: #BlueJays nytimes.com/athletic/65135…
One player from each MLB franchise who will be wearing a new uniform by July 31 dlvr.it/TM6NKV
Andres Gimenez (ankle) began a running progression in Toronto on Thursday. Blue Jays manager John Schneider says it “went better than expected.”
Yimi García got a cortisone injection in his elbow, John Schneider says, and he’ll he shut down from throwing for two more weeks before they ramp him back up. #BlueJays
LHP Adam Macko works his longest Triple-A outing, 5.0 innings, before finishing for the day. Gave up just 1 H and 2 BB, striking out 5. A total of 77 pitches, 49 strikes. 5-0, BUF. B6. #Bisons #BlueJays
Latest notes: *A plea to the Brewers’ owner *Potential Dodgers trade chip *White Sox’s surprising trade candidate *Braves seeking baseball trades, not salary dumps *Why Blue Jays need another starter *Explaining DBacks’ reluctance to sell nytimes.com/athletic/65123…
"Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone (or until you watch another team play bad defence)" - Joni Mitchell On the Yankees' many miscues magnifying Toronto's defensive foundation: nytimes.com/athletic/65123…
Do nights like tonight give John Schneider extra appreciate for the #blueJays' defence? "Yeah... Hell yeah, I guess, is the right answer."
#BlueJays win the game and the series (and the season series) over the Yankees. Hot take: Catching the ball is good
The Yankees have played far from perfect defence this series. But every time they slip, the #BlueJays have been there to take advantage. Great baserunning by George Springer there to nab a second run.
Hell of a play by Leo Jiménez to start the game for the #BlueJays Called safe, but the replay review overturned it for an out.
Max Scherzer cites shaky command for his 4ER for the #BlueJays today: "I take accountability for where I put the ball, and I can be better. I know I can be better. So I will be better."
#BlueJays claw back, but fall 5-4 to the Yankees. The home win streak is over. Bassitt vs Fried tomorrow, with a series on the line.
Ben Rice tags Hoffman. Yankees up 5-4, with Vlad, Bo and Barger due up in the ninth for the #BlueJays.