Baseball still has the best All-Star Game, although the tall foreheads who run the game have been doing their level best to remove all its mystique.

The pen has been used a lot this year and has a lot of guys in it.  9 at all times it seems.  The 1983 team which many compare this team to (young, on edge of greatness but nightmare pen) had a total of 11 relievers all year.  Times have changed a lot.

Just was thinking about the pen and how many were used there this year and the injuries so I thought 'how has this changed over the years'?

So, now that Manoah is off to the races it got me thinking of kids called up who made a strong first impression here.

Yep, just announced.

I've been thinking about who is the face of the Jays now - Vlad or Bo depending on personal preference I figure. But what about over time?

Weren't the Red Sox supposed to be bad this year? Did they not get the memo?

The Bronx Bombers are coming to town! Okay, not this town, but a town.

It's the home opener, in Florida. The Angels come in to play four games. The Jays have been very hit and miss so far, what will this series bring?

This is the last full week of spring training. The Jays play through Monday of next week, before travelling to New York for an April fool start to the season.

Today is February 28th and it is also the first day for spring training games. The Jays take on the Yankees at 1pm in a 7 inning game. This year MLB allows shorter games in the first half of spring training. MLB will also allow a team to declare an inning over if the pitcher has throws 20 pitches, irrespective of the number of outs. You can see today's Yankee game on Sportsnet, or on the MLB Network. On Monday and Tuesday the Jays face the Pirates and Phillies.

Today is the first day of spring training. Pitchers and catchers are in camp and they are working out. The Canadian based reporters are not there so we are still relying on zoom updates. And there were some updates today.

Wow, new thread required.

Well, that was unexpected.