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On this episode of the Baseball Bar-B-Cast, Jordan Shusterman is joined by special guests Ben Nicholson-Smith and Shi Davidi to break down what has gone wrong this year for the reigning American League champions and whether injuries are the main reason for their sluggish first two months. Even though the Blue Jays might be nine games back in the AL East, they currently hold a Wild Card spot, and with players returning from the IL, it still could be a very exciting summer in Canada.<\/p>\n
Also on this episode, Jordan and Ben talk about the remarkable turnaround season the Chicago White Sox<\/a> are having, which sees them sitting just one game back in the AL Central while also occupying a Wild Card spot. Instead of being sellers at the deadline, they could find themselves as buyers. However, with the injury to rookie sensation Munetaka Murakami<\/a>, will the White Sox be able to tread water until he returns? The guys then discuss the Seattle Mariners<\/a>‘ use of piggyback pitching, the New York Yankees<\/a> continuing to impress and their thoughts on the latest power rankings.<\/p>\n 2:37 – The Opener: White Sox roll on<\/p>\n 19:54 – Nationals also offering a turnaround<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n 35:01 – Issues plaguing the Blue Jays<\/p>\n 51:30 – State of Toronto pitching and hitting<\/p>\n 1:09:27 – Around the League: Mariners pitching strategy<\/p>\n 1:21:38 – Power rankings thoughts<\/p>\n Photo by Alyssa Piazza\/MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n (Photo by Alyssa Piazza\/MLB Photos via Getty Images)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udda5\ufe0f Watch this full episode on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Check out all episodes of Baseball Bar-B-Cast<\/a> and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj<\/a> or at yahoosports.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-Cast When the Toronto Blue Jays went on their incredible World Series run last season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[152,5,26480,138,49,2561,3308,4,73,62,65,47073,70,396,2562],"class_list":["post-714743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-american-league","tag-baseball","tag-ben-nicholson-smith","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-jordan-shusterman","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-shi-davidi","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116676491023106744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714743","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=714743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bbbc-060126-site-thumb_2192.jpg\"\/)
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