With the return of Major League Baseball in the form of the Toronto Blue Jays playing its 2020 home opener at Sahlen Field, it will be the first time a major-league team has called Buffalo home since 1915’s Buffalo Blues. (more…)
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Blue Jays turn their lonely eyes back to Buffalo
After criticizing Sahlen Field as a potential home for the 2020 Toronto Blue Jays season, the team has now concluded it can’t wait to conclude negotiations to play at Oriole Park and will instead commit to home games in Buffalo, per NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo. (more…)
Blue Jays still looking for 2020 home after PA snub
With Pennsylvania officials rejecting the notion of the Toronto Blue Jays playing the 2020 season at Pittsburgh’s PNC Park, the team and MLB officials are again on a search for a home base for the beleaguered franchise. (more…)
Pirates invite Blue Jays to play “home” season at PNC Park
It’s increasingly looking like the Toronto Blue Jays will end up playing 2020 home games at PNC Park, as the Pittsburgh Pirates acknowledge talks have opened between the two MLB teams. (more…)
Blue Jays revisit 2020 MLB season operating plan
If the Toronto Blue Jays are to play the 2020 MLB season at Buffalo’s Sahlen Field, the facility will need some immediate upgrades in the next 10 days to accommodate the team’s season opener. (more…)
On second thought, no Rogers Centre for Blue Jays in 2020
The Toronto Blue Jays are back to looking at alternative venues for the 2020 MLB season, after federal officials pulled the plug on a COVID-19 mitigation waiver that would allowed the team to play at Rogers Centre this year. (more…)
Blue Jays cleared for Rogers Centre play: Provincial officials
Ontario officials say the Toronto Blue Jays have been cleared to play the shortened 2020 MLB season at Rogers Centre, as Ontario Premier Doug Ford goes on the record with the news. (more…)
Blue Jays move to Plan C: Regular season in Buffalo
With no official government approval for play at Rogers Centre and a general distrust of returning to Florida, the Toronto Blue Jays have reached out to Rich Baseball Operations about playing regular-season games at Sahlen Field. (more…)
Blue Jays to train at Rogers Centre; continue push to play season there
The Toronto Blue Jays will open summer camp at Rogers Centre and isolate players at the attached Toronto Marriott City Centre Hotel, going directly to the ballpark for workouts. (more…)
Looks like Jays will land at Roger Centre
After weeks of negotiations between the Toronto Blue Jays and government officials it looks like the team will play a quarantined 2020 season at Rogers Centre, with players confined to the ballpark hotel. (more…)
Still to be determined: Where Blue Jays play in 2020
Should there be a 2020 MLB season–something that’s still very much up in the air–it remains to be seen whether the Toronto Blue Jays will play out of their Dunedin spring-training complex or share Tropicana Field with the Tampa Bay Rays. (more…)