The Toronto Blue Jays traded for Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Shane Bieber at this year's trade deadline. Now that he is here, the rotation will change.

Surprisingly, it has been the red-hot southpaw Eric Lauer who has been bumped from the rotation as of now. The left-hander has been excellent for the Blue Jays, but he will be the one going to relief as of now.

Johan Oviedo earned his first major league win since 2023 and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 to take the three-game series.

Springer was hit by a pitch in the top of the first inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, perhaps as restitution for the two teams' bench-clearing incident on Monday. Instead of escalating the situation, Springer simply waited a couple of innings, then launched a home run off pitcher Mitch Keller his next time up.

Thomas Harrigan of MLB .com recently wrote about the Blue Jays being the biggest risers in the AL East since the All-Star Break. They have seen a dramatic increase in their percentage of winning the division, going from 37.2 percent to 79.7 percent since the break.

George Springer resides in quite the place in MLB history. Anytime you can be second in a statistic in the history of baseball, you're probably doing something right. And that's where Springer sits in leadoff home runs.

In Wednesday's game, the Blue Jays hit five homers and had 24 hits, and they smacked 13 round-trippers during the series. Toronto also had 40 more hits than the Rockies, the biggest hit differential in a three-game series since 1900. Expert MLB daily picks ...

As the Toronto Blue Jays look to continue their successful run of late, they have been struggling in one area that could be a bit of a concern.