Off Day - Blue Jay Playoff Records

Monday, October 06 2025 @ 11:58 AM EDT

Contributed by: John Northey

For this offday lets look at some Jays playoff records

FanGraphs has all playoff data now which makes for some fun digging. For rate stats I used 10+ PA.

Most Home Runs lifetime: 6 by Joe Carter and Jose Bautista. Anyone shocked by this doesn't know Jays history. #3 is Encarnacion & Donaldson with 4 each. Vlad's 2 is in a big tie for 8th with guys like Alomar, Teoscar, Varsho, Kirk, Devon White, and Dave Winfield among others.
Most RBI: 20 by Joe Carter. Vlad's 7 is 16th.
Most Runs: 20 by Devon White. Varsho is tops among current Jays at 6.
Stolen Bases: Alomar's 18 leads by a mile. #2 is Fernandez & White at 5 (!), followed by Pompey at 4 in 5 games. Bo is the only current Jay with a playoff SB
Hits: Alomar's 44 will take awhile to be broken. Active leader is a tie between Kirk & Vlad with 9 (#22 in Jays history)
2B: Donaldson with 9, Varsho tops among current with 3 (same as George Bell, Gruber, and Molitor).
3B: Molitor & White both had 3. No current Jay has one, although Varsho came close.
BB: Bautista leads with 14, best current Jays are Springer/Vlad/Bo/Kirk with 2 each.
SO: Devon White did this the most at 27. Vlad the highest among current Jays at 5
Sac Bunts: Goins leads with 3 (Alomar & Gruber 2 each), Varsho among 4 guys with 1 apiece (Borders, Fernandez, & Winfield also)
GIDP: Alomar #1 with 5 (surprising), Travis did it 4 times in 5 games (!), Kirk the only current Jays to hit into one so far.
Avg: Varsho #1 at 462 with Molitor the only other 400 hitter (426 over 55 PA)
OBP: Molitor at 509 leads, with Varsho at 500 #2
Slg: Varsho #1 at 1.154, then Jansen at 923, Molitor 809, Kirk 615, Teoscar 600
OPS: Varsho 1.654, Molitor 1.318, Jansen 1.308, Kirk 1.029, Donaldson 1.000. 3 more in the 900's (Saunders, Bautista, Alomar)
wRC+: Varsho 323, Jansen 255, Molitor 244, Kirk 188, Donaldson 170, Saunders 168, Alomar 157
wRC+: on the negatives you get Smoak -100 (0 for 10), McGriff worst for 20+ PA (-26), Goins for 30+ and 40+ (11). Bo the worst current Jay at 79 (surprise, surprise)

Now on to pitchers...

W: Guzman has 5, Ward 4, 2 have 3, 3 have 2, no one else has more than 1 (inc. Gausman & Yesavage)
L: 4 have 3 losses (Stottlemyre, Estrada, Morris, and Stieb), Price has 2, no one else more than 1 (including Gausman, Berrios)
ERA: 32 guys have 5+ IP, best ERA is 0 for 4 guys (Cecil, Biagini, Yesavage, Lamp). 10+ IP is 0.69 for Acker (Gausman 4.70 best for 10+ IP current staff, well, only guy current staff with 10+ as a Jay)
G: 19 Ward, Gausman's 3 is best for current guys.
GS: Guzman 8, Gausman 3 of course is the best for current
Saves: 5 tie Ward & Henke (appropriate). Only 2 others have saves - Timlin (first WS title), and Osuna (2).
IP: Guzman 51 2/3, tops now is Gausman at 15 1/3
SO: Guzman 41, Gausman at #13 with 15, Yesavage at #18 with 11.
CG: just 2 ever for the Jays: Morris in 1992 (4-3 loss), Estrada in 2016 in a loss (2-1). Go figure, both CG were losses.

Kind of fun to look at. Overall Springer's 20 dingers are #5 all-time (tied with Jeter), Schwarber is next at 21, Bernie Williams had 22, Altuve is #2 all time with 27, and Manny Ramirez is #1 with 29*. Most HR in a playoff year is 10 in 2020 by Arozarena, Bautista 2015 is the top Jay with 4 (very reachable) at a massive tie for #64 all time. Top 2 K seasons for pitchers were for Arizona in 2001 - Curt Schilling with 56 and Randy Johnson with 47. Don't see a Jay catching that even with how amazing Yesavage has pitched so far (I see 2 or 3, max of 4 more games most likely for him if the Jays go all the way).

Just some fun stuff to dig into on an offday. Lets go Blue Jays! One more win to get their first series win since 2016.

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