Passan Drops SURPRISING Jays Trade Update...

Folks, we have some very interesting news to go over today. And in what has been a rollercoaster season thus far for the Toronto Blue Jays, we have an interesting report that has dropped from Jeff Passan revealing some interesting information surrounding an upcoming trade. And he has name-dropped a reliever that has fans very intrigued. We're going to break down exactly what Jeff Passan said. But not only that, rumors have started to pick up surrounding the Jays and trades, even though it is early in the season. We're going to break that down. But not only that, we have some controversy that happened following yesterday's game involving both Tyler Hahnemann and John Schneider there's some weird things going on in yesterday's game following John Schneider randomly pulling Tyler Hahnemann and some injury updates and Addison Barger making his return to the minor leagues not of course long term but just as a rehab stint and he looked very very good already hitting a home run folks there is an abundance of news to go over today before we get into it quick thank you for all your guys support now folks I want to dive right into it now bear with me on this one it's going to be very interesting so a tweet surfaced and a jays fan asked Jeff Passan about a potential trade could you see the blue jays try and trade for a legitimate closer after Jeff Hoffman struggles now of course Louis Verlin has ultimately turned into the closer and that kind of part has been figured out but there's a tidbit of this that i couldn't help but talk about you can see here louis verlin has looked pretty darn good and if he falters you can stick tyler rogers and i believe this was you know kind of when you know before Louis Verlin had fully taken over the closer role but he said that said it's never a bad thing to have more relief pitching i just don't know at this point who's likely to be available one of the issues with the standings being as flat as they are is almost every team can squint and see a playoff berth that is a chance to make for a pretty lame deadline that said a role this Chapman would look awfully nice at the back of the Jays bullpen and him name dropping Chapman is interesting for a variety of reasons including Boston continuing to struggle blowing up their team I'm going to break down what Chapman would look like in a Jays uniform including some other rumors as well but before we get into the rest of the news folks a quick word from our sponsor mother's day is just around the corner and let's be honest just like John Schneider putting in a struggling Jeff Hoffman every single game some of us run the same playbook every year and that's why i recommend Aura Frames which will completely outlast the box of chocolates or flowers you were planning on getting her it's a beautifully designed picture frame that allows you to display a slideshow of all your favorite memories and what makes it such a great gift is you can preload your pictures before the product even ships it arrives in a premium gift box and the second she plugs it in it's already loaded up with your favorite family pictures and on top of that it comes with unlimited storage so you and your siblings can use the free Aura app to drop in pictures and videos straight to her picture frame no matter where you are in the world and no matter when make mother's day special with Aura Frames named number one by Wirecutter and you can save on the gifts mom's love by visiting auraframes.ca and for a limited time listeners can get 25 dollars off their best-selling Carver mat frame by using code jays digest that's right aura frames dot ca and use promo code jays digest support the channel by mentioning us at checkout terms and conditions do apply now let's get back into the news shoutout once again to Aura Frames check them out folks it helps me out a ton there and it's a fantastic product folks let's dive right back into the news and let's talk about this so obviously Aroldis Chapman one of the better relievers in the MLB this year 0.93 ERA in 10 games now let's preface this by saying as of this point first of all would the Red Sox consider trading the best reliever in baseball to a division rival usually not but with how bad and how weird the Red Sox season has been this is a name to keep an eye out on there's a reason Jeff Passan you know name dropped it right He's not reporting necessarily that the Jays are going to go ahead and trade for Aroldis as Chapman, but he's reporting that name to keep an eye out on, right? And he's kind of stirring the rumor mill a little bit, and it does make sense. Now, the Jays' bullpen is one of their strengths, and they obviously have a lot of other fish to fry, including, of course, maybe figuring out some other issues on this team that I think are going to get resolved mostly by people returning from injury. But getting another lefty reliever would be very exciting, and I think Louie Verlander has kind of taken over the closer spot. but I mean even if you get Aroldis as Chapman I would love it personally now off the field there is some stuff with him I don't love him necessarily as at least what I could tell you know maybe as a human being or at least some of the off the field issues but as a strict baseball player it would make this team really really crazy and rumors have been flying now for a little bit like talking about targets to trade for uh to replace Jeff Hoffman again Louie Verland and Tyler Rogers have kind of taken it over Jeff Hoffman looked a little bit better there for a bit then kind of had a mini blow-up session that got out of the bases loaded jam I still think they could use another arm like you you have Brayden Fisher he had a bit of a blow up yesterday as well I'm always open to kind of you know adding new relievers and there's been some articles that have started to fly involving multiple different pitchers I mean even guys like Brian Abreu who have struggled this year so there is ultimately going to be trade rumors that continue to you know drop but Jeff passing this early in the year name dropping a role this Chapman usually would be absolutely crazy but given the weird circumstance the Red Sox are in keep an eye out for uh for the future of these trade rumors continuing to pick up though again it's probably unlikely given the fact that it is an AL East rival but if they continue to free fall keep an eye out for it at least as a name to look at going forward and the relief market now a lot of other news to go into today folks so i want to start with what happened with Tyler Hyndman now if you missed yesterday's game it was a weird one the jays had a base i'll give you some context here the jays had the bases loaded with the chance to really do some damage and come back from a deficit right they were ultimately down at 1.41 in the game Tyler Hyndman was at bat and people were Davis Schneider was available on the bench Brandon Valenzuela was available on the bench Valenzuela's coming off of home run yesterday he's hit like three home runs as of late in the past handful of games everyone thought they were going to pinch hit for him they didn't and then so John Schneider doesn't pinch hit for him but then after removed him from the game due to a manager's decision didn't want to elaborate and Heineman said it was just a situation everything that's been going on and I just didn't get it done manager's decision I stick by it one of the best managers in the game and the best manager I played for he has a reason for everything he does and I fully support him so this was just weird because i don't know what i'm if you're gonna take him out defensively why on earth wouldn't you at the very least pinch hit Brandon Valenzuela for him or maybe if you prefer Davis Schneider because Valenzuela's a rookie then you could do that but Schneider's been struggling Heineman put together a pathetic at-bat right and he said it was a pathetic at-bat but again there seems to be a bit more to this is he going to get DFA'd when Alejandro Kirk comes back in a month or a couple months or hopefully sooner than that just a weird weird scenario folks and just comment down below what your thoughts are I think John Schneider messed up by not pinch hitting like that was obvious and then removing him the vibes are weird then Tyler Heineman said that he had a putrid at bat basically paraphrasing a little bit I don't know weird stuff and ultimately they lost the game they should have won the game yesterday they lost the game I mean Vlade had a couple hits he snapped out of his mini cold slump I don't know it was a sad game I'm not too stressed about it team's getting healthy which we'll dive into in a minute you know Braden Fisher had a mini blow up like I mentioned Jeff Hoffman looked good yesterday luckily but again his role we'll see what happens going forward i don't know it is a uh it is a weird time but some good news is mr Addison Barger was added to MLB rehab assignment and i believe Dunedin so it was uh it was very encouraging you need these bats back who's going to get sent down when Addison Barger comes back it's a great question we don't know yet as of as of this point but we do know is that Addison Barger had hit a home run and threw his three half bats he hit a 400 foot bomb a four pitch walk and he ground at second base this is a guy they need to get back and yes this is against Dunedin very very you know a ball right so nothing crazy but this team needs as much offense as they can get they need to continue hopefully riding on their bullpen but most importantly just getting the offense going the pitching staff has done a pretty good job right between Patrick Corbin Dylan Cease Kevin Gausman those guys I mean hopefully get Jose Barrios back soon and obviously Eric Lauer as well he hasn't really done good but he's been there you need to start stringing together some wins and weird stuff going on with Tyler Heinemann I don't know he has had a horrible season a .398 OPS get Brandon Valenzuela in there every single game the reason he wasn't yesterday is ultimately and obviously Valenzuela replaced him after gotten that bad but that wasn't pinch hitting for the bases loaded but obviously the reason they didn't put him in is because they like Hyndman catching Trey Savage who was okay fought through his command four innings one run really good stuff right got six K's generated a lot of nine whiffs on his fastball which is the most of his career I believe what's the stat I read, correct me down below if I'm wrong um but yeah they need more starting pitchers as well and Jose Barrios with three and two-thirds gave up seven runs yesterday in Triple-A this isn't a question of workload at this point yes it was just 10 degrees but i don't give that much weight tough spot hashtag Blue Jays if they're gonna at this point even bring back Barrios yet like he's ready to go pitch count wise his results now back-to-back poor starts comment down below what you guys would do here is he better than Eric Lauer starting probably i think i give him at least the benefit of the doubt his sinker although it was cold 90.1 that's not going to play weird stuff going on folks but ultimately it's an exciting time some rumors are already starting to fly obviously it's a bit early for trade rumors but it's tipping from Jeff Pass and i want to keep you guys up to date with of course all in good fun also make sure to check out Aura Frames it truly would mean the world to me folks they are they're fantastic companies so thank you guys for supporting me every step of the way see you guys later