by Dirk Hayhurst | Mar 21, 2019 | baseball, MILB, MLB
If you want to play at the Major League level, you’ll need to start specializing early.We’ll be generous and say 10 years old is when you started.At 10 you realized you could throw thunderbolts. Pills. Ched. Heat. Smoke. Fuzz. Gas.You could throw hard.Ridiculous when... by Dirk Hayhurst | May 31, 2016 | baseball
Matt Harvey doesn’t get a lot of sympathies these days. Can’t say I don’t understand why. If you want to be the self-proclaimed superhero of a town like New York, you’re essentially setting the bar so high it requires perfection to reach, and... by Dirk Hayhurst | Sep 18, 2015 | baseball, Blue Jays, MLB
Is Marco Estrada tiring out? Nope. For the record, I said nope before he rambled out to the mound in Atlanta and shut down the Atlanta Braves for 8 strong innings. There are three big things one looks for when someone is supposedly tiring out. The first is Mechanical.... by Dirk Hayhurst | Sep 11, 2015 | baseball, Blue Jays, MLB
I’m a contrarian, as such, I tend to look at where the popular opinion—any popular opinion— is taking a narrative and say, yeah, but. Thus, despite all the feel-good vibes flowing from the gushing geyser that is the Marcus Stroman’s Return story, I need... by Dirk Hayhurst | Sep 8, 2015 | baseball, Blue Jays, MLB
(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette) Here are six things Jays fans should be coming to terms with before the Jays head to New York. 1) The Jays don’t need Marcus Stroman to win. They haven’t needed him all season and they don’t need him to stay...