The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East Division. Since 1989,the team has played its home games primarily at Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto.
Jim Hughson is a retired Canadian sportscaster,best known for his play-by-play of the National Hockey League. He was the lead play-by-play commentator for the NHL on Sportsnet from 2014 to 2021 and Hockey Night in Canada from 2008 to 2021. His career spanned 42 years.
Gregory Owen Zaun is an American baseball analyst,public speaker and a former professional baseball catcher. He played for nine teams over 16 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1995 until 2010,winning a World Series Championship in 1997. From 2006 to 2017,he served as an on-air personality with Sportsnet in Canada.
Patrick Sean Tabler is an American former Major League Baseball player. After retiring from professional baseball,he became a color analyst for the Toronto Blue Jays on the Canadian sports television networks TSN and Sportsnet from 2001 to 2022.
Daniel Shulman is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet as well as the American network ESPN.
Sunday Night Baseball is an exclusive weekly telecast of a Major League Baseball game that airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ESPN during the regular season.
Jamie Campbell is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet. He is currently the host of Toronto Blue Jays telecasts and previously provided the play-by-play from 2005 to 2009.
Jonathan Paul Arencibia is an American former professional baseball catcher. He is currently serving as the bench coach for the Syracuse Mets. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays,Texas Rangers,and Tampa Bay Rays from 2010 through 2015.
Joseph Todd Siddall is a Canadian former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos,Florida Marlins,and Detroit Tigers.
Dirk Von Hayhurst is an American author and broadcaster,and formerly a professional baseball pitcher. Hayhurst played in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres in 2008 and for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2009. Following the end of his playing career,Hayhurst wrote four books about his experiences in professional baseball.
Toronto Blue Jays on Sportsnet is a live telecast of Toronto Blue Jays baseball games that air on Sportsnet,Sportsnet One,or Sportsnet 360. Starting in 2003,some games were broadcast in high definition. As of 2007,all games that air on the network are presented in high definition,and as of 2016,all home games are broadcast in ultra-high definition. Sportsnet began showing Blue Jays games in 1999 and is now their official television carrier,carrying all televised Blue Jays games throughout the regular season.
The MLB on TSN is a television presentation of Major League Baseball games on Canada's TSN. TSN has broadcast Major League Baseball games since they went on the air in 1984. Their current MLB schedule consists of simulcasting ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts on TSN2. TSN had previously broadcast Sunday Night Baseball from 1990 to 2000. TSN has also broadcast Toronto Blue Jays (1984-2009) and Montreal Expos games.
MLB International is a division of Major League Baseball primarily responsible for international broadcasts of games. In partnership with DirecTV and MLB Network,it produces and syndicates the All-Star Game,and the World Series,as well as the Caribbean Series,the Australian Baseball League Championship Series and the World Baseball Classic to broadcasters in over 200 countries,and the American Forces Network for U.S. military troops abroad. It previously broadcast the NLCS and ALCS,alternating between the two each year. MLB International broadcasts content that shows baseball in a local context,e.g. sneaker shopping in Japan or baseball games in India,and explains concepts and rules of baseball to viewers who may not be familiar with the sport.
The 2016 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 postseason played between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams,the Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles. As both teams finished with identical 89–73 records,a tiebreaker was used to determine the host team. In accordance with MLB tiebreaking rules,the Blue Jays earned the right to host the game by winning their season series against the Orioles 10–9.
On August 28,2012,it was announced that ESPN and Major League Baseball had agreed on a new eight-year deal that increased ESPN's average yearly payment from about $360 million to approximately $700 million.
The 2023 Major League Baseball season (MLB) began on March 30. The 93rd All-Star Game was played on July 11,hosted by the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park in Seattle,Washington,with the National League winning,3–2. The regular season ended on October 1,and the postseason began on October 3,and ended with Game 5 of the World Series on November 1. This season saw the introduction of several rule changes:in an effort to create a quicker pace of play,a pitch clock was introduced along with other minor changes,while limits on defensive shifts and larger bases were also introduced.
The following is a general overview of Major League Baseball on television in the 2020s. During the 2020s,Major League Baseball announced its first exclusive television contract with a paid streaming service. Due to the bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group,MLB took over the production of the local broadcasts of the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.
