About

Welcome to Jays Journal, the Toronto Blue Jays news and opinion site brought to you by the FanSided Network. Jays Journal is dedicated to providing top-notch Blue Jays news and original content. This site also serves as a community for like-minded fans to come together and catch up on the latest happenings as well as discuss their passion about the Blue Jays! Jays Journal is comprised of an editorial team that creates content as they closely follow their favorite team. The site covers everything from news and rumors, including roster moves, injuries, trades, industry buzz and analysis, using reputable sources such as Baseball-Reference, Baseball Savant, MLB.com and more. All article submissions from the Jays Journal writers are reviewed by the Site Expert and/or FanSided's full-time editorial team. Any updates or corrections to articles after publication are communicated via an editor's note. FanSided is owned and operated by Minute Media, whose other brands also include Sports Illustrated, The Players' Tribune, 90min and Mental Floss.

Meet The Team

Charles Kime

My true baseball consciousness began with the great Blue Jays teams of the mid to late 1980s with Dave Stieb, Jimmy Key, Tom Henke, George Bell, Lloyd Moseby, Jesse Barfield, Tony Fernández and friends. My first ever game was at Exhibition Stadium, but I’ve also watched games from the RF porch of the old Tigers Stadium, and from both the old and new Yankee Stadium. My most memorable game was Game 5 of the 2001 ALDS when Soriano tied the game, and then Justice’s home run and Mariano put it away to help the Yankees beat Oakland 5-3 to win an emotional series that year. The stands were literally shaking. Follow @CharlieKime1 on X.

@CharlieKime1

Edward Eng

Diehard Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Blue Jays fan with great enthusiasm and support of my favourite teams; joined Jays Journal back in March 2023 and recently joined Editor in Leaf in September 2023 to have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to write for my teams

@EdwardEng2023

Ethan Hyatt

Ethan has been writing for Jays Journal, a site on the Fansided network, since 2023 and is fascinated by how sabermetric statistics can assist our understanding of outcomes and probability in baseball. He has published on Medium.com and has been tuned into each and every Toronto Blue Jays game for over a decade, even the ones that are hard to watch. Ethan is in his fourth year of studies at the University of Toronto with ambitions in sports writing and journalism.

Paul Taylor

Paul is a FanSided NHL site expert and MLB contributor. He graduated with a first class BA honours journalism & media degree, and has covered numerous MLS, CFL, NHL, MLB, NFL & NLL events over the years dating back to 2010, while being fortunate enough to interview various sporting personalities one-on-one, including Roger Goodell. Previously worked for the BBC and has had his writing featured on Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report and other major publications. Throughout it all, his one message for anyone in this industry is to never take it for granted.

Eric Treuden

Eric Treuden (troy-din) has covered baseball for years for multiple different media outlets. Currently, he is a writer and site expert for Jays Journal, the Toronto Blue Jays site on the FanSided Network; editor at Just Baseball and Brewers writer over at Reviewing the Brew. Follow @ETreuden on X or email him at etreuden@gmail.com

@ETreuden

Henry Wright

Henry has been a contributor at Jays Journal since 2022 and is a lifelong Jays fan and Munenori Kawasaki enjoyer. His has written for other sites such as Bare Knuckle Nation and The Morning Skate, and is a graduate of the Sport Media program at Toronto Metropolitan Univeristy.

@@henrywr1ght

Joe Olenick

Joe Olenick has 11 years of experience working as a reporter and an editor. He has even more experience following the Toronto Blue Jays, witnessing firsthand the good (such as Roger Clemens' 3,000th strikeout), the bad (such as Justin Verlander's first no-hitter against the Jays), and the strange (like watching them play in Buffalo).

Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher is the editor at That Ball's Outta Here on the FanSided network, a position he has held since September 2023. He has written over 500 articles for That Ball’s Outta Here. He has been a baseball fan since 1990 and became a Philadelphia Phillies fan in the early 2000s. Michael has been writing for FanSided since 2022 when he started as a writer at Jays Journal. He also spent over a year writing about MLB at FanSided.com. Michael enjoys camping and playing tennis and badminton in his free time.

@FishyFisher82

Richard Gueren

Richard has been writing for Jays Journal since the beginning of 2024. He has been a baseball fan since a young age and loves showcasing his passion for baseball through writing. One of my favorite moments as a Blue Jays fan was the Jose Bautista bat flip in Game 5 of the 2015 American League Division Series. Plus, everything else that happened during that wild seventh inning. In his free time, Richard enjoys spending time at the beach and pool as well as solving the crossword and Sudoku puzzles.

Sophie Shipton

Talking all things Blue Jays from the UK. My all-time favorite Jays are José Bautista and Joe Carter current favorites are Kevin Gausman and George Springer.

@SophieShipton_

Zane Cherniak

Zane Cherniak is a contributor at FanSided since 2023. He is studying Journalism at Seneca Polytechnic. He covers the Toronto Blue Jays on Jays Journal. Zane is moving forward to step into the world of Sports Journalism, hoping to make as many connections as possible. Aside from baseball, Zane is a passionate music fan, who will discuss his interest with anyone keen. Follow him @ZaneCherniakHQ on X or @ZanesWorldHQ on TikTok for more.

@ZaneCherniakHQ

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