One year ago today (October 5, 2025), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. crushed a bottom-of-the-4th grand slam off Will Warren to blow ALDS Game 2 wide open, marking the first postseason grand slam in Blue Jays history.

It set the tone for one of the greatest individual playoff runs in Major League history:

• Slash Line: .397 / .494 / .795
• OPS: 1.289 (all-time MLB single-postseason record)
• Counting Stats: 8 HR, 15 RBI, 29 H, 18 R across 18 games

Toronto has extended this guy a $5.5 Million dollar signing bonus offer for 2028

Just went to the AGO to pick up my order because I got an email yesterday saying my order was ready for pick up. They told me that only prints are ready for pick up, apparel still hasn’t arrived. Not sure why I got an email, they said I should get another one once the stock arrives.
Wanted to spare anyone a trip downtown, luckily I live close by!
Edit to add: I ordered 2 sweaters

On August 25 at home Clement fouled a ball directly into his junk and I got curious so I looked at his numbers before and after

Before the nut shot
AVG: .284
OBP: .309
SLG: .402
OPS: .711

September
AVG: .150
OBP: .186
SLG: .200
OPS: .386
HR: 0

Obviously he was already cooling off before this happened but his numbers absolutely fell off a cliff after lol

Did this foul ball break Ernie Clement

Thrifted find! Has anyone read this? Is it any good?

It's up in the main entrance (at least into the new year), so no ticket required!

EDIT : Bruce Arthur's column in Toronto Star yesterday on former NFL coach Mike Tomlin's Minecraft hobby includes a parallel to this Cease discourse:

"...To those criticizing Tomlin’s hobby, well, Winston Churchill recommended every person should have two or three real hobbies, and he helped defeat the Nazis. A National Institutes of Health study on hobbies found they reduced depression, anxiety and stress, enhanced quality of life and well-being, and helped create a sense of community.

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And Tomlin wanted to be close to his kids before they grew up and drifted into their own lives and their own worlds, and only later did it became a therapeutic place: a place to focus his mind away from the pressure and the strain of coaching guys like Roethlisberger, Joey Porter, James Harrison, Antonio Brown and Najeh Davenport among others. Phew.

And then his sons got him to do the video, and helped with its production. Beautiful.

It’s understandable, and instructive. The world is a lot at the moment and doing something you enjoy, something that occupies your whole brain, is an antidote. Ideally hobbies include the outdoors and other people and especially your kids, but what matters is you do it. Because in the end, in Minecraft or elsewhere, what you’re really building is you."

Bruce Arthur: Minecraft might not have been franchise-building for Mike Tomlin but it has been family-building

It’s looooong and not very wide, so might just end up as couch decor for the cats to lounge on. It was a fun project to work on all season, but some of those loss stretches really hurt to look at!

No question Ernie seemed to struggle making the transition from the left side of the infield to the right side.

Some of the suggested options in this article are interesting - Brandon Lowe and CJ Abrams in particular. Hard pass on Jazz Chisholm. Medium pass on Ketel Marte.

I also wouldn't mind a lineup where Ernie plays SS in any game against a lefty, and plays 3B in a good chunk of games (Kaz can DH, or slide over to 1B in a game where Vlad DHs - this can work since Ross is already hinting that they'll use the DH spot as a means to get guys off their feet for a day rather than having one player DH all year).

This is a wish list that I think could be accomplished because of the money coming off the books as well as the fact that Rogers has increased the payroll every year.

For pitching I want Adrian Morejon or Michael King. I think Morejon can start and King when healthy is a no 2 starter. For hitting I would like Suzuki as well as Jake Bauers or Sato. I think Bauers is a profile the Blue Jays could really benefit from. High OBP with power. Suzuki's excellence goes without saying but he is a top corner outfielder in baseball. Although Sato has contact issues he is getting better each year and could play 2b. Let me know your thoughts on this.