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Toronto Blue Jays' MLB World Series Odds Sink with Slump

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: April 19, 2017

If one were to project the team with the worst record in baseball just a few weeks into the season, most likely the clubs would have been the Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres or Cincinnati Reds. However, the worst team by far is the Toronto Blue Jays, who had World Series aspirations following two straight...

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Toronto Blue Jays at Baltimore Orioles Odds: Opening Day Picks

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: April 3, 2017

The last time the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles shared the same field in a game that counted, it was the 2016 American League Wild-Card Game at Rogers Centre. The Jays won in memorable fashion, 5-2 in 11 innings. The two AL East rivals open the 2017 season against one another in Baltimore on...

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Toronto Blue Jays 2017 MLB Betting Odds Preview, Predictions

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: March 31, 2017

The Toronto Blue Jays have made the playoffs three straight seasons once in franchise history. That was 1991-93, and the Jays won the World Series those final two years. Toronto Blue Jays Odds Toronto hasn’t been back to the Fall Classic since and sat at +1000 in MLB World Series odds since the beginning of...

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World Baseball Classic Odds Make Team Canada a Long Shot

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: March 6, 2017

The 2017 World Baseball Classic began Monday with a big upset: Israel, competing in its first-ever WBC and having just a few players with Major League Baseball experience, upset South Korea 2-1 in 10 innings. So perhaps anything is possible for Team Canada in the quadrennial event. The Canadiens are +5000 to win the tournament...

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Indians vs. Blue Jays: ALCS Game 5 Odds and Prediction

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 19, 2016

The Toronto Blue Jays saved their season with a 5-1 win over Cleveland in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Tuesday at Rogers Centre. So now it’s a 3-1 series deficit for Toronto, and older Jays fans will remember their team being on the wrong side of that type of rally back...

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Indians vs. Blue Jays: ALCS Game 4 Odds and Prediction

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 18, 2016

The good news for Toronto Blue Jays fans heading into Tuesday afternoon’s Game 4 of the ALCS against the Cleveland Indians is that teams in the NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball have all rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win a series. That bad news is that it’s nearly impossible in MLB as only...

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Indians vs. Blue Jays: ALCS Game 3 Odds and Prediction

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 17, 2016

Needless to say, it’s rare for a team to rally and win a series after trailing two games to none as the Blue Jays do against the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS. But it happens. In the 1985 ALCS Toronto led Kansas City 2-0 but lost the series in seven. Certainly Monday’s Game 3 is...

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Blue Jays vs. Indians: ALCS Game 1 Odds and Prediction

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 13, 2016

Entering the 2015 season, the Toronto Blue Jays had the longest playoff drought in Major League Baseball. Oh how things have changed! Now the Jays are in their second straight ALCS and are the most recent World Series winners (1993) of the remaining teams in the 2016 playoffs. Toronto opens the AL Championship Series in...

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Toronto Blue Jays vs. Cleveland Indians: Odds, Predictions and Picks

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 11, 2016

Not many national experts predicted that the wild-card Toronto Blue Jays would oust the team with the best record in the American League, the Texas Rangers, in the AL Division Series. I called a Toronto series win in four games but was dead wrong — it only took the Jays three, their first-ever postseason sweep....

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Toronto Blue Jays vs. Texas Rangers: Odds, Predictions and Picks

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 5, 2016

The Edwing lives! Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion hit a walk-off three-run homer in the bottom of the 11th inning on Tuesday night at the raucous Rogers Centre to beat the American League East-rival Baltimore Orioles 5-2 in the AL wild-card game. Encarnacion will be “walking his parrot” home-run trot next to Arlington, Texas, for...

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Blue Jays Climbing, Cubs Leading On 2016 World Series Futures

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: June 17, 2016

There has been a lot of angst over the Toronto Blue Jays this season. The offense hasn’t been nearly as productive as last year’s team that led Major League Baseball by far in runs (891) and homers (232). The pitching staff isn’t quite as good, either, but that was to be expected when David Price...

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Toronto Blue Jays Go All-In with David Price and Troy Tulowitzki

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 3, 2015

The Toronto Blue Jays are legit contenders in the AL East, but are they a good bet down the stretch? Whatever happens between now and October, nobody will deny that the Toronto Blue Jays gave themselves their best chance to win a World Series since 1993. The Jays pulled off a couple of blockbuster deals...

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MLB Spring Training: Odds Put Big Expectations on Toronto Blue Jays

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 17, 2015

Two years ago, after the Toronto Blue Jays spent gobs of money in the offseason, they headed into Spring Training as Major League Baseball’s World Series favorite. After that didn’t go as planned and last year wasn’t much better, the Jays are no longer at the top of the odds board, but they’re not all...

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Toronto Blue Jays Need the Real R.A. Dickey Right Now

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 23, 2014

When the Toronto Blue Jays acquired R.A. Dickey from the New York Mets two years ago, they thought they were getting a big-game pitcher they could count on if they had their backs against the wall. Tonight the Jays will be looking for Dickey to come through on his end of the bargain against the...

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Blue Jays Could Help Bring Baseball Back to Montreal

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: September 10, 2013

Montreal baseball fans will be treated to two MLB exhibition games between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets ahead of the 2014 season.  With the Toronto Blue Jays booking the pair of preseason games against the New York Mets at Olympic Stadium, it may be a small step, but a very necessary one...

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The end is near for Toronto Blue Jays: JP Arencibia quits Twitter

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 23, 2013

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Toronto Blue Jays, outspoken catcher JP Arencibia had to go and quit Twitter. Yes, that’s the sound of 145,000 or so of his followers groaning in unison. Arencibia might go over the line at times, like when he jumped all over Sportsnet sportscasters Dirk...

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Making a case for Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie at second base

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 11, 2013

The Toronto Blue Jays will soon get a boost to their lineup with Brett Lawrie returning from his sprained ankle, but the big question is where he might play when he returns. Right now, while manager John Gibbons won’t come right out and say it, you can bet Lawrie will be trading in his third...

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Jays’ JP Arencibia should lay off Sportsnet TV commentators

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 4, 2013

Catcher JP Arencibia says there is major tension between the Toronto Blue Jays’ locker room and the team’s Sportsnet commentators Gregg Zaun and Dirk Hayhurst. He wasn’t shy about getting into the details of the rift in an interview with Toronto radio station The Fan 590 on Thursday either. “It’s tough to hear people like...

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Blue Jays out to extend streak vs. Canadian Jeff Francis

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: June 18, 2013

The Toronto Blue Jays have won six straight games and are playing their best baseball of the season despite a rash of significant injuries. After going just 10-17 in April with a healthy pitching staff, the Jays have won eight of 10 this month with two starters on the shelf. When you dig a deep...

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Jays manager John Gibbons has hands full with Brett Lawrie

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: May 27, 2013

In many ways, Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie is the kind of player every baseball manager wants to have in his lineup. Lawrie’s young and exciting. He’s a five-tool guy that plays the game hard. His potential is through the roof, but the problem is, his antics are might just make John Gibbons...