{"id":596626,"date":"2026-02-27T19:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/596626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:12:14","slug":"friday-bantering-jays-bits-bluebird-banter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/596626\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Bantering: Jays Bits | Bluebird Banter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s game isn\u2019t on TV. I planned my day around getting to sit and watch tonight\u2019s game. And it isn\u2019t on TV. I guess I\u2019m going out to shovel snow. It was +9 yesterday. I wore a light sweater. Overnight it snowed, a lot. The joys of living in Calgary.<\/p>\n

The Sporting News tells us <\/a>that Davis Schneider had the best \u2018challenge success rate\u2019 of any Triple-A player. He challenged 12 times and was right 10 times. Davis was robbed on calls a lot last year. He should be able to benefit from the challenge system. I wonder if ability to get challenges right will play into a) roster choices and b) lineup choices.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see who is good at challenges and who isn\u2019t. I would imagine that there will be some players who are told not to challenge, but then, I think, for some, the challenge will almost be a reflex. That was wide, hit the helmet.<\/p>\n

If $280 million was it, there are five teams who would be above the cap (if it was this season). Dodgers ($382 million), Mets ($369 million), Yankees ($330 million), Phillies ($311 million) and Blue Jays ($300 million).<\/p>\n

If $140 million was the floor, 11 teams would be below it ($160 million would add two more teams). A\u2019s at $131 million all the way to Marlins at $78 million. A lot of teams would have to go on spending sprees. I believe those 11 teams are the reason why it is going to be hard to get this cap. I don\u2019t think the Marlins are going to want to double their payroll.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have any particular memories of Froemming. Share if you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s game isn\u2019t on TV. I planned my day around getting to sit and watch tonight\u2019s game. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,282,70,42104,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-596626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-daily-bantering-links","15":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116144186598844046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}