JTP: Blue Jays Got Bieber Fever
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What is the Blue Jays’ trade deadline kickoff and the Shane Bieber acquisition?
Lock the doors, lower the blinds, fire up the smoke machine, and put on your heels, because I know exactly what we need. Blake, let's have a trade deadline kiki. This is Jay Stock Plus, Julia Kreutz, Blake Murphy with you from 10 to 2. It's trade deadline day, and this show might as well be called Blake Murphy Day. He is so excited. We have some moves to talk about already. We have a big potential Blue Jays move to talk about. How are you
doing? The Blue Jays just confirmed it. Let's not bury any leads. The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired Shane Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for pitching prospect Cal Stephen. The Blue Jays tweeting that out literally the second we came on.
Wow.
Thank you to their social media team for timing that so perfectly.
Thank you very
much. There were a boatload of trades last night. Trade deadline got started early. The reliever market is going crazy. We're going to talk about all that. We'll recontextualize Sir Anthony Dominguez. The Blue Jays won a ball game and got to escape Baltimore by the skin of their teeth. But yeah, it's deadline day. We've got four hours. We've got a load of guests coming in shy is going to join us in a little bit bns will join us we'll go around baseball throughout the four hours but what a way to start the show
shane bieber
he of the cy young award yep is a toronto blue jay as of one minute ago really exciting way to start the show really exciting way to kick the deadline in the next year next gear on the heels of the sarah anthony dominguez acquisition
I gotta say, I was ready to start this show by talking about Yohan Duran going to the Phillies, Ryan Elsley to the Mets, Eugenio Suarez obviously reuniting with the Seattle Mariners, but good on the Jays for giving us something more interesting and timely, honestly, to talk
about. I feel a little bad because we didn't even get to dig in on your lyric. We'll come back to that after because I got all of it except for one part. And obviously, look, had we had more time to plan, a Justin Bieber lyric leads the day.
Yeah, absolutely. Not
to overdo that. The last time the Blue Jays were this good, Justin Bieber did release his best album. So, you know, it's
all you. The things line
up. But yes, Shane Bieber is the Toronto Blue Jay. Huge deal. So for anyone who doesn't know, the latest on Shane Bieber is, yes, he has not pitched since the second start of the 2024 season at the major league level. He underwent UCL reconstruction surgery. So this is not a guy we have seen recently. However, he has made four rehab starts as he works his way back. He most recently pitched at AA. He pitched four innings. He threw 57 pitches. All the reports on how he felt and where his velocity is at. At this point in the comeback, we're positive coming out of Cleveland. We'll try to get a Guardians guest to go a little deeper on that at some point during the show. But if you are thinking, Shane Bieber, I haven't heard that name in
a while.
Is he even healthy?
He's getting there.
He's getting there. And honestly... Think about how often when we were talking about starting pitching options, we worked through the where do they fit? How do you do a six-man rotation in August and shorten your bullpen and you have all these off days? How do you do that? Max Scherzer looks a little better.
How did the hosts break‑down the health status and rehab progress of Shane Bieber?
Eric Lauer hasn't warranted going to the bullpen yet. Shane Beaver is not ready to join this rotation yet. So you almost kind of save your, you punt that question of where does another starter fit? You buy the five guys that you have a little more time to make their case for who stays, who comes out and things like that. Obviously other things can happen. You can also take your time with Shane Bieber's return from UCL reconstruction because you don't need him imminently. This is kind of best of both worlds for Shane Bieber, best of both worlds for the Blue Jays rotation right now. And then at some point in August, You're going to get back a guy who, yes, it was the 2020 shortened season, has won a Cy Young, a guy who in 2021 and 2022, which were not shortened seasons, had ERAs of 317 and 288.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Blue Jays’ trade deadline kickoff and the Shane Bieber acquisition?
0:13–3:20
2
How did the hosts break‑down the health status and rehab progress of Shane Bieber?
3:20–9:15
3
What are the risks and upside of adding Bieber to Toronto’s rotation right now?
9:15–16:40
4
How might the Jays use Bieber in a six‑man rotation or a bullpen role this season?
16:40–24:18
5
What does the Cal Stephen prospect trade reveal about Toronto’s farm‑system depth?
24:18–29:42
6
How are reliever prices shaping the trade market and the Jays’ recent moves?
29:42–38:14
7
What are the long‑term implications for the Blue Jays’ rotation and free‑agency outlook?
38:14–47:03
8
What final thoughts and next steps did the panel discuss as the deadline approached?
47:03–49:33