Breaking Blue 2015 AL Cy Young Award Ballots
(Featured image from Arturo Pardavila, https://www.flickr.com/photos/apardavila/) Sunday, we gave our hypothetical ballots for the NL Cy Young award. Today we shift to the American League. John Havok – Chris Sale. I can hear your heads exploding. Dallas Keuchel will get a lot of support from the camp that values 20 wins, a very low ERA and being on a team going to the playoffs. His ground ball numbers and weak contact rate are...
Breaking Blue 2015 NL Cy Young Award Ballots
No, none of us have award ballots and never will, but we all have an opinion and that’s what the internet is for! Over the next week we’ll deliver each of our writers’ picks for the top MLB awards; MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year for both the American League and National League. First, the NL Cy Young. John Havok – Clayton Kershaw Max Scherzer undoubtedly gained a few votes with his second no hitter of the...
Explaining Marco Estrada
When Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos acquired SP Marco Estrada from the Brewers this past offseason for 1B Adam Lind, the logic behind the move was fairly easy to see. The Jays needed arms, and they had an extra bat to use as currency. They made the deal and both sides have enjoyed success from their respective players. Lind is on pace to up just over 2 WAR for a team that is going nowhere while not paying him a ton, and Estrada is...
Blue Jays News & Notes | August 24th
(Title photo courtesy James G, https://www.flickr.com/photos/james_in_to/) Breaking Blue hasn’t really covered this 2015 season from a game-to-game point of view, for a few reasons. We’re not going to be the ones providing the news (for that, there is Shi Davidi and the Sportsnet crew), or the ones quickly providing a forum for analysis and discussion of that news like bloggers such as Andrew Stoeten and fansites like...
The Blue Jays Are Strongly Incentivized To Buy Despite .500 Record
(Title photo of Mike Leake courtesy of David, https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/) The Toronto Blue Jays have endured a very frustrating first four months to the 2015 season. As you are no doubt aware, the Blue Jays lead the major leagues in runs scored by a very wide margin. They’ve circled the bases at a rate that seems out of place in the current pitching-dominated era. And they’ve also allowed a lot of runs. But...
The Toronto Blue Jays Bullpen is Taking Shape
(Photo credit to Keith Allison, https://www.flickr.com/photos/keithallison/) Since last season concluded, many fans have expressed deep concerns with the Toronto Blue Jays bullpen. The team did nothing to address it with proven relievers in the offseason and the bullpen had its ugly moments in April. The Miguel Castro experiment is on hold with his demotion to Buffalo, presumed ace reliever Brett Cecil hasn’t looked like...
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