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Meaningful Toronto Blue Jays Nicknames

eant to describe and represent a player’s personality, looks, or how they play. Essentially, nicknames are meant to serve the purpose of telling us more about a person.

For example, Jose Bautista is nicknamed “Joey Batts” because of the iconic bat flip that happened in the 2015 ALDS. The current Toronto Blue Jays roster has many players with funny nicknames. While these nicknames are comical they also maintain historical significance. How many of these nicknames are you familiar with? Let’s take a look at some significant baseball nicknames of the 2023 Toronto Blue Jays roster.

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3 Changes to the AL East After the Trade Deadline

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Across the American League East, teams fortified their pitching and depth for the final stretch. There were not many blockbusters in the division, but several teams went for reinforcements to their bullpen and added lineup depth. The AL East has been hyper-competitive, and this trade deadline only increased that focus. 3 Changes to the AL

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Three of the Jays Biggest Struggles This Season

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The Toronto Blue Jays 2023 MLB Season has brought on a lot of strong emotions from fans, sports commentators, and writers, but also from the players themselves. These emotions also derive from struggles.

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Three Things Jordan Hicks Will Add to the Jays Bullpen

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The Toronto Blue Jays made another move with the trade deadline by adding another player from the St. Louis Cardinals to their bullpen.

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Whit Merrifield Continues to Shine

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A name that continues to come up consistently when talking about the Toronto Blue Jays is Whit Merrifield. The 34-year-old veteran continues to be a hitting machine. In his last seven games, he has 12 hits, two home runs, five RBIs, and one stolen base. He has been a strong contributor to many of the

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Ranking the First 10 Picks of the 2013 MLB Draft, 10 Years Later

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Over ten years ago, in June of 2013, all of the teams around MLB gathered to select who they saw as the best young baseball players who would join their organizations in the coming years in that year’s draft. Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge were both notable talents taken later on in the draft, but

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Three Reasons Why Jay Jackson Deserves More Respect

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If we were to look at the Toronto Blue Jays strongest relief pitcher right now, all fingers point to Jay Jackson. He really deserves more credit than he’s gotten as he’s been putting on quite a show for the Jays. His star performance has definitely been overlooked and he’s been doing everything to put zero’s up on the board for his team. He’s putting up some unbelievable numbers for the bullpen. While the Jays have had their issues in the bullpen Jackson doesn’t fit into that equation. Here are three reasons why Jay Jackson deserves more credit than he’s been given.

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Four Legendary Blue Jays Bobbleheads

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When it comes to Toronto Blue Jays sports memorabilia fans take it very seriously and a popular collectible memorabilia that fans crave is sports bobbleheads. Their uses are multi-purposeful as they’re great for home decor on a desk, shelf, or for a sports memorabilia room and they also make great gifts for sports fans. The great thing about bobbleheads too is that over time they sustain more value and become worth more money depending on the ones you’ve collected. There are so many out there in different variations from select years and while the vintage ones are popular they are constantly coming out with new ones. So, why don’t we take a look at some of the best Blue Jays bobbleheads? Maybe you might be adding one of these to your collection.

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Varsho & Chapman Come Out Big for the Jays

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It’s been nothing but a rollercoaster ride with the Jays this season. Expectations have been set high as players have been counted on to come out big. But frustrating moments for the Toronto Blue Jays have led fans to question players’ capabilities. Players will go through struggles, but what’s important is how a player bounces back from their struggles. There’s been a lot of online criticism regarding Daulton Varsho with his offensive drought, but the game against the LA Dodgers on July 26th has somewhat silenced that criticism. In addition, Matt Chapman is another player that has really turned around his game. He continues to hit key home runs and he is without question the Jays top defensive gem. He really makes those tough plays look so easy. So, let’s strike out some criticism and explore these two players in more depth in terms of how they came out big for the Jays.

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Three Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Underestimate Alejandro Kirk

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The Toronto Blue Jays inconsistency continues along with the curse of the Seattle Mariners. But to look on the brighter side of things, we’ve witnessed a turnaround in Alejandro Kirk’s offense. Kirk had four hits against the Mariners on July 22nd, really doing everything he could to try to help the Jays win. It was close but no cigar as the Jays lost 9-8. Sooner or later his game had to turn around. Slumps don’t last forever and let’s hope that his success continues and that he continues to prove himself as a valuable asset to the Jays. Here are three reasons why we shouldn’t underestimate Alejandro Kirk.

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