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Blue Jays sign Ponce to three-year, $30-million deal
Kevin Glew
Blue Jays sign Ponce to three-year, $30-million deal
Kevin Glew

The Toronto Blue Jays have signed right-hander Cody Ponce, who was the MVP of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) last season, to a three-year, $30-million contract.

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Kevin Glew
Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae named winner of Canadian ball hall's Jack Graney Award
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Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae named winner of Canadian ball hall's Jack Graney Award
CBN Staff

Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae has been named the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s 2025 Jack Graney Award.

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Elliott: Boras called seven-year deal for a Blue Jay after seeing Maple Leaf get seven
Bob Elliott
Elliott: Boras called seven-year deal for a Blue Jay after seeing Maple Leaf get seven
Bob Elliott

“The Toronto Blue Jays have signed free-agent RHP Dylan Cease to a seven-year, $210 million deal. Super agent Scott Boras called it — 11 years ago.” Bob Elliott shares an article he wrote after interviewing Boras in 2014.

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Bob Elliott
Blue Jays to sign Cease to seven-year deal
Kevin Glew
Blue Jays to sign Cease to seven-year deal
Kevin Glew

The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a seven-year, $210-million contract with right-hander Dylan Cease.

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Kevin Glew
WCL's Kelowna Falcons hire ex-Jay Towers as pitching coach
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WCL's Kelowna Falcons hire ex-Jay Towers as pitching coach
CBN Staff

The West Coast League’s Kelowna Falcons have hired former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Josh Towers as their pitching coach.

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Shushkewich: Mense, Blue Jays' assistant hitting coach, to depart for Giants
Tyson Shushkewich
Shushkewich: Mense, Blue Jays' assistant hitting coach, to depart for Giants
Tyson Shushkewich

Toronto Blue Jays’ assistant hitting coach Hunter Mense is leaving the club for a position with the San Francisco Giants.

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Tyson Shushkewich
Schneider finishes second in AL Manager of the Year voting
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Schneider finishes second in AL Manager of the Year voting
CBN Staff

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider finished second in the American League Manager of the Year voting.

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Elliott: Remembering Bill Lankhof
Bob Elliott
Elliott: Remembering Bill Lankhof
Bob Elliott

Bob Elliott remembers his longtime friend and Toronto Sun colleague Bill Lankhof who passed away on Thursday at the age of 72 after battling ALS.

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Bob Elliott
Elliott: Clement a reason Blue Jays went so far ... and almost further in Game 7
Bob Elliott
Elliott: Clement a reason Blue Jays went so far ... and almost further in Game 7
Bob Elliott

Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement was a huge reason the Toronto Blue Jays almost won the World Series. But who can the gritty infielder be compared to?

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Bob Elliott
Ahmad: From Korea to Toronto and home, to see his Blue Jays in Game 1 of World Series
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Ahmad: From Korea to Toronto and home, to see his Blue Jays in Game 1 of World Series
CBN Staff

A Blue Jays fans since middle school, Adeel Ahmad vowed he would be at Rogers Centre if his team ever made the World Series again. So, he flew from Korea to Toronto and back to Korea for Game 1.

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Delgado one of eight players on Hall of Fame's Contemporary Baseball Era ballot
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Delgado one of eight players on Hall of Fame's Contemporary Baseball Era ballot
CBN Staff

Toronto Blue Jays legend Carlos Delgado is one of the eight players on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Era ballot that was released on Monday. The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee will meet on Dec. 7 at baseball’s Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., to vote on the ballot.

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France only Jay to win Gold Glove Award
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France only Jay to win Gold Glove Award
CBN Staff

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Ty France was the only Toronto Blue Jays player to receive a 2025 Gold Glove Award.

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Seguin: A Blue Jays team fans could fall in love with
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Seguin: A Blue Jays team fans could fall in love with
CBN Staff

Canadian Baseball Network contributor Rob Seguin pays tribute to the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays, a team he fell in love with.

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Jerry Howarth: Thanks to the Blue Jays for an amazing 2025 season
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Jerry Howarth: Thanks to the Blue Jays for an amazing 2025 season
CBN Staff

Broadcasting legend Jerry Howarth thanks the Toronto Blue Jays for an amazing 2025 season.

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Whicker: Smith leads Dodgers to World Series win over Jays
Mark Whicker
Whicker: Smith leads Dodgers to World Series win over Jays
Mark Whicker

“On many Nov. 1sts to come, our contemporaries and descendants will be trading tales about this Game 7 in Toronto, a night of astonished stares and double-takes and wonderment over what’s next. The ones in Ontario will be obsessed, for a good while, about the many ways the Blue Jays could have won and the inside straights that allowed the Dodgers to.

Will Smith came up in the 11th inning with two out against Shane Bieber. There were two out, nobody on. Bieber tried to be careful, but when you’re careful against Smith and most of the Dodgers, you give up control of the ball-strike count. On 2-and-0 Bieber went to a slider that sat there and waited to become a passenger. Smith’s home run to left field gave the Dodgers a 5-4 lead, their first of the entire game, and eventually gave them their second consecutive World Series championship. No one had done that since the 1999-2000 Yankees, and no National League team had done it since the 1975-76 Big Red Machine from Cincinnati.”

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Mark Whicker
Gallagher: Jays almost won the World Series in an improbable, exciting season
Danny Gallagher
Gallagher: Jays almost won the World Series in an improbable, exciting season
Danny Gallagher
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Danny Gallagher
Whicker: Barger, Blue Jays foiled by a ball that won't bounce in Game 6
Mark Whicker
Whicker: Barger, Blue Jays foiled by a ball that won't bounce in Game 6
Mark Whicker

“They say you need the bounces to win the World Series.

They weren’t talking about this.

Toronto’s Addison Barger drove a baseball so hard that it lost consciousness in the ninth inning of Game 6 Friday night. Instead of bouncing off the left-centre wall, or bouncing against it, it found a nice little crevasse and took a nap. “

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Mark Whicker
Shushkewich: Second and third none out ... nada for Jays ... on to Game 7
TYSON SHUSHKEWICH
Shushkewich: Second and third none out ... nada for Jays ... on to Game 7
TYSON SHUSHKEWICH

The phrase Game 7 at the Rogers Centre seems all too common this postseason for the Toronto Blue Jays.

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TYSON SHUSHKEWICH
Whicker: Yesavage dominates Dodgers in Game 5, Blue Jays one win from World Series title
Mark Whicker
Whicker: Yesavage dominates Dodgers in Game 5, Blue Jays one win from World Series title
Mark Whicker

“When Game 5 arrived Wednesday, and the local fans settled in to watch the Dodgers impose familiarity, the Blue Jays took the lead before they could text their agents.

Davis Schneider, the 28th-round draft choice who was signed by John Schneider, the unrelated scout who is now his manager, led off because George Springer is hurt. He wasn’t going to let Blake Snell impose his patterns and build his sequence. He let it rip when he saw the fastball coming, and the ball landed in the leftfield stands, a fan catching Snell’s pitch before catcher Will Smith could. Two pitches later, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) did the same thing. The Blue Jays handed a 2-0 lead to a 22-year-old who, 16 months ago, was pitching East Carolina to an NCAA regional upset of Wake Forest. Trey Yesavage had already faced the Dodgers once, without trauma. This time he struck out 12 of them in seven innings and got 23 swings and misses. “

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Mark Whicker
Shushkewich: Strong trade deadline has helped spark Jays' postseason success
Tyson Shushkewich
Shushkewich: Strong trade deadline has helped spark Jays' postseason success
Tyson Shushkewich

Canadian Baseball Network writer Tyson Shushkewich writes that a strong trade deadline performance by Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins has helped spark the team’s postseason success.

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Tyson Shushkewich
Whicker: Blue Jays turn out to be the marathon men, beat Dodgers in Game 4
Mark Whicker
Whicker: Blue Jays turn out to be the marathon men, beat Dodgers in Game 4
Mark Whicker

The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium to even the series at two games apiece. Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker offers his take on the game.

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Mark Whicker
Whicker: Dodgers' bullpen picks up phone and slack in Game 3 WS win over Jays
Mark Whicker
Whicker: Dodgers' bullpen picks up phone and slack in Game 3 WS win over Jays
Mark Whicker

“Game 3 was like an orphan, or maybe an old CD player left in the yard, for scavengers. Six baserunners were nabbed at second, third or home. The Blue Jays lost a run because home plate Mark Wegner, faced with calling either a ball or a strike on Daulton Varsho, decided to call a ballike or a strall or something in between, and Bo Bichette got picked off because he couldn’t tell.”

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Mark Whicker
Elliott: Yesavage, Hoffman, Delfino -- East Carolina Pride
Bob Elliott
Elliott: Yesavage, Hoffman, Delfino -- East Carolina Pride
Bob Elliott

Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series Game 1 starter Trey Yesavage and closer Jeff Hoffman are East Carolina University graduates. They share their East Carolina pride with national team alum and current Fieldhouse Pirates coach Lee Delfino. Bob Elliott has the story, as well as the details about the Blue Jays’ 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.

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Bob Elliott
BWDIK: Barger, Clement, Lindros, Naylor, Rogers
Kevin Glew
BWDIK: Barger, Clement, Lindros, Naylor, Rogers
Kevin Glew

Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s latest “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Addison Barger, the 1992 World Series parade, Ernie Clement, Josh Naylor and Eric Lindros.

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Kevin Glew
Whicker: Yamamoto strong from start to finish in complete-game win over Jays to even World Series
Mark Whicker
Whicker: Yamamoto strong from start to finish in complete-game win over Jays to even World Series
Mark Whicker

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto got stronger as the game went on in his complete-game, 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday.

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Mark Whicker
Whicker: Underdog Jays deliver message to Dodgers with Game 1 rout
Mark Whicker
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Whicker: Underdog Jays deliver message to Dodgers with Game 1 rout
Mark Whicker
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“Questions we never thought we’d ask kept popping up through the artificial garden of Rogers Centre after Game One.

If Alejandro Kirk is going to keep smacking home runs, can the Blue Jays get him a Home Run Jacket that fits?

Can Freddie Freeman, last year’s World Series MVP and perhaps the steadiest hitter in baseball, remember how?

Should we scout the Dunedin Blue Jays and other Florida State League teams to find the featured pitcher in next year’s World Series?

There were others, but only 24 hours ago the only question was if the Dodgers’ parade route would be kept secret, the better to frustrate ICE agents. Now that Toronto has thrashed the Dodgers, 11-4, nobody is sure of anything. It’s worth noting that Yoshihuru Yamamoto pitched a complete game last time out, and is working Game Two for the Dodgers, and a team with a lifetime of postseason experiences should have little trouble clearing its head. But it’s more about the Blue Jays, and their unwillingness to serve as the scenery. “

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Wilson: Many Blue Jays and Dodgers stars honed skills in Alberta prior to earning WS rings
Ian Wilson
Wilson: Many Blue Jays and Dodgers stars honed skills in Alberta prior to earning WS rings
Ian Wilson

Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, takes a look at some of the players that honed their skills with Dodgers’ and Blue Jays’ farm teams in Alberta before earning World Series rings.

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Ian Wilson
Clement wins first Fielding Bible Award
CBN Staff
Clement wins first Fielding Bible Award
CBN Staff

Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement has won his first Fielding Bible Award.

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ICYMI: Recounting Joe Carter's walk-off World Series-winning homer
Bob Elliott
ICYMI: Recounting Joe Carter's walk-off World Series-winning homer
Bob Elliott

Thirty-two years ago today, Toronto Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter belted the second walk-off, World Series-winning home run in major league history. It’s an unforgettable moment in Canadian baseball history - one that wouldn’t have happened, as Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott recounts in this 2015 article, if Carter had signed with the Kansas City Royals, as the outfielder almost did at the 1992 winter meetings.

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Bob Elliott
Game 7 ALCS win most watched Blue Jays game on Sportsnet ever
CBN Staff
Game 7 ALCS win most watched Blue Jays game on Sportsnet ever
CBN Staff

The Toronto Blue Jays’ 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday was the most watched baseball game ever broadcast on Sportsnet.

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