Yariel Rodriguez’s arrival in Toronto means the biggest challenge of his professional career is imminent, and the Cuban right-hander’s presence may allow the Blue Jays to reconfigure their pitching staff a little, perhaps as soon as Saturday.

After two games against some pretty good pitching, the Blue Jays are showing signs of turning their offence around. Ben Nicholson-Smith tells us what it all means.

It’s now been more than half a year since the Blue Jays last took the field at home, but even with the team away from Toronto the last six months have been quite a ride.

On Monday, manager John Schneider called the no-hitter an outlier, but by Wednesday their offensive struggles were becoming harder to dismiss.

After managing next to nothing against left-hander Framber Valdez, the Blue Jays looked to be in trouble when the Astros turned the game over to Ryan Pressly and Josh Hader. But thanks to Schneider’s big swing, the Blue Jays were able to build some positive momentum heading into Wednesday’s series finale.

Based on what we know on Opening Day, Ben Nicholson-Smith takes a look at how the Blue Jays’ roster looks, and how their 26 players will be deployed early in the year.

R.A. Dickey is always happy to talk to a young knuckleballer. When the Jays ended up with two — in prospects Ryan Chasse and Jordan Powell — it was enough to get Dickey back to Dunedin.