Tag: Ohtani
over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Blue Jays’ Alek Manoah goes pitch-for-pitch with Shohei Ohtani — just like any big-game...

“Every game is Game 7 of the World Series to me.” If teams could create an ace pitcher in a lab, they’d insert a lot ...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Shohei Ohtani arrives to face the Jays near the peak of his powers. But an MVP repeat i...

The Angels two-way star makes his lone visit of the season to the Rogers Centre starting Friday night, and is slated ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | The Jays found their groove in California, and head home on a roll

The offence deserves the bulk of the credit for their season-high five-game win streak — including Sunday’s wild 11-1...

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almost 2 years ago
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Analysis | Three things: Blue Jays offence roars to life for first series sweep of the season

A pair of late-inning rallies knocked out the Angels in Anaheim, despite a pair of homers by Shohei Ohtani.

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Anaheim still feels like home for Vlad Guerrero Jr., but the Blue Jays star never wante...

Guerrero drew a throng of reporters before the opener of the Jays’ four-game series in the city where his father spen...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Ohtani. Guerrero. Semien. MVP voters got it right, as unfair as it might seem to a Blue...

This would have been a different conversation if Ohtani was an average or even above-average designated hitter and st...

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over 2 years ago
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Opinion | Marcus Semien for MVP. Robbie Ray for the Cy Young. MLB award finalists highlight the B...

The Jays had two of the top three vote-getters for the AL MVP award in Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Marcus Semien when r...

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over 2 years ago
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Vlad Guerrero vs. Shohei Ohtani. Robbie Ray vs. Gerrit Cole. The AL wild-card race isn’t the only...

In Toronto, everything else that’s going on in baseball right now takes a back seat to the standings, but there are a...

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over 2 years ago
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For Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the AL MVP window opens ever so slightly

Anything less than a Triple Crown won’t be enough to challenge Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani. But Guerrero couldn...

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about 3 years ago
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‘Baseball is our language.’ Love of the game (and Shohei Ohtani) runs deep among Japanese Canadians

As the Angels two-way star faces the Blue Jays in Dunedin, Canadians of Japanese descent are reminded of the positive...

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