With the Toronto Blue Jays returning to Rogers Centre on July 30, two displaced teams–the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons and the MLB Draft League Trenton Thunder–will finish out their 2021 seasons at home. (more…)
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Blue Jays still on track for 2021 Rogers Centre return
The Toronto Blue Jays are still on track for a 2021 Rogers Centre return as Canada officials review the team’s COVID-19 management plan, but the exact timing is still up in the air. (more…)
Blue Jays begin Buffalo tenure tonight
The Toronto Blue Jays will begin the second phase of their 2021 MLB home schedule tonight when they open at Sahlen Field, normally the home of the Buffalo Bisons (Triple-A East). (more…)
Blue Jays end Dunedin run
The Toronto Blue Jays played their last 2021 regular-season home game at Dunedin’s TD Ballpark, with the next stop Buffalo’s Sahlen Field, as the team’s road odyssey continues with the Canadian border sealed. (more…)
Novelty wears off for Blue Jays in Dunedin
After playing the first six weeks of the 2021 MLB season at TD Ballpark, it sounds like some Toronto Blue Jays are ready to leave the intimate Dunedin ballpark behind in favor of MLB-level facilities. (more…)
Capacity limits lifted in MLB ballparks
As vaccinations increase and positivity rates decline, MLB teams are working with local health officials to raise capacity limits at ballparks, adjusting operations along the way. (more…)
Blue Jays make it official: Shuffling off to Buffalo on June 1
The Toronto Blue Jays made it official: after two months to begin the 2021 MLB season at Dunedin’s TD Ballpark, the team will shift U.S. games to Sahlen Field, home of the Buffalo Bisons (Triple-A East). (more…)
Blue Jays to Buffalo, Bisons to Trenton
With it looking unlikely that the Toronto Blue Jays will return to Rogers Centre in the near future, the Buffalo Bisons (Triple-A East) will play out of Trenton temporarily, with the Blue Jays at Sahlen Field. (more…)
Blue Jays may displace Bisons in Buffalo
Though the Toronto Blue Jays will begin the 2021 MLB season with two homestands at Dunedin’s TD Ballpark, team President Mark Shapiro says playing at Buffalo’s Sahlen Field is an option until a return to Rogers Centre. (more…)
With MLB season done, Sahlen Field deconstruction begins
By all accounts the Toronto Blue Jays‘ temporary tenure at Sahlen Field, home of the Buffalo Bisons (Class AAA; International League), was a success, but now comes the bittersweet part: removing all the improvements and preparing for an uncertain 2021. (more…)
MLB returns to Buffalo–after 105 years
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…)
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 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…)