JTP: John Axford, Ryan Dempster & Bieber Back!
6/23/20261 hr 40 min
Blake Murphy is joined by John Axford in-studio to discuss Dylan Cease’s outing, the pitching approach when a batter wants to hit a sacrifice fly, Toronto’s woes driving in runs on Monday and Shane Bieber’s return (29:02). Ryan Dempster (50:07) of Intentional Talk gives his Jays views from afar, teams he’s buying right now and Kyle Schwarber’s career progression. Lastly, MLB.com’s David Adler (1:11:40) analyzes the new Statcast batting data, Trey Yesavage’s season and some of the best comebacks from Tommy John surgery.
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First 90 secondsBlake Murphy· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Shut it down. They did it. Uh, mission accomplished, banner behind George W. Bush, all that stuff. Look at banner, Michael. Uh, the Blue Jays are back to 500. No, good game yesterday. They win four to two to start this 10-game home stand. Uh, they beat the Astros, they get Hunter Brown out of the game early, the bullpen does its job. There's not much to, uh, do at this point other than keep stacking wins and stacking series, and the Blue Jays have done enough of that to get back to 500. Uh, they hadn't been 500 in about a month. They haven't been over 500 in even longer than that. They'll try to do that this afternoon. As a reminder, it's a 4:07 game tonight, today because of, uh, the World Cup game downtown a little later. It'll be Shane Bieber's 2026 debut, taking on Peter Lambert. He back from Japan and looking, uh, much better than he was as a Colorado Rocky, but who wouldn't look better than they did as a Colorado Rocky? Uh, later in the show, we will talk to Ryan Dempster, we will talk to David Adler, but for the first hour, joining me in studio is John Axford. John, how we doing, buddy?
John Axford· Guest1:13
Blake, uh, good to be here. A little different on a Tuesday, but probably better than Monday since that game on Sunday was rained out, so it's good.
Blake Murphy· Host1:19
Yes, we would've had-- I guess we still would've had Friday and Saturday's games- Yeah ... to talk about.
John Axford· Guest1:24
Right.
Blake Murphy· Host1:24
But, uh, rainou- s- what is a rainout like as a-- but I was gonna ask Dempster this later too, because the Cubs- Yeah ... got double