Chris Colabello

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Series Win, Roster Moves & Chris Collabello · 28 May 2026 podcast

I guess, first of all, how cool is it to have, like,

Your stuff, like you guys and COTS baseball contract are kind of the home for all of this salary information, CBT information.

So you guys are getting cited left and right.

You're getting cited.

And all of this stuff that you guys have spent the last couple of years building out and making the payroll information more accessible now is like an invaluable resource ahead of a labor stoppage.

So how have you guys kind of developed those tools and how cool is it that it is a big part of the discussion around this and a big resource for reporters?

And if you are a fan graphs member and a lot of great stuff is free, but when you remember, you can also download all this stuff into Excel and play around with it yourself, which is very valuable.

John, you mentioned some of the payroll tools.

So if you, if, if you want fan graphs, hover over the roster resource tab, click blue Jays, click payroll.

There are all these little info clipboards now next to a player.

And I know that that was a huge project that took a ton of work.

What can you tell us about what went into those and what fans can kind of get out of that project?

Yeah, and look, as someone who already has to know one salary cap in CBA, I think baseball is where it needs to be.

I don't want to learn another one necessarily, but it's a very valuable resource.

When it comes to, you said you're doing some back-end developing stuff.

When it comes to thinking through new features and adding new wrinkles like this, how much of this is, you know, the fan graph slack kicking around ideas versus...

You know, people are coming to you, users, readers are coming to you guys and say, hey, I'd like to see this.

And I imagine you get a ton of that on the fantasy side because fantasy sickos are fantasy sickos.

But how much of that is kind of user driven and you just feeling out what people are using on the site and looking for?

One of the other really valuable tools, and this is more from the fantasy perspective, the playing time projections are, and I used to do this when I was at Fangraphs, there's a lot of manual input to that.

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