Hosts Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey talk about the Vancouver Canadians, and all minor league prospects in the Toronto Blue Jays system.
Episode 24 - October 15th, 2015 (ALCS Preview)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
Charlie and Greg are joined by Katie Lawrence (@BlueJayGal) in studio and Ewan Ross (@Mentoch) on Skype.
Topics discussed include:
• Game by game recaps of the ALDS
• Gibby's bullpen use/Price
• Bautista's home run
• Dyson's comments about the bat flip
• Look ahead to the ALCS against Kansas City
10/16/2015 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 23 - October 7th, 2015 (Postseason Preview)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
The Blue Jays are set to play their first playoff game in 22 years on Thursday. Get primed and ready with an entire podcast previewing the series.
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
The voice of the Lansing Lugnuts, Jesse Goldberg-Strassler joins the podcast to discuss Marcus Stroman's rehab start and other Lansing-related topics. Post game audio from Marcus Stroman himself is also included.
Toronto Blue Jays prospect Shane Dawson also joins to discuss his season with Lansing/Dunedin, as well as his experience playing for Canada at the Pan-Am games.
19:00 - Jesse Goldberg-Strassler
48:00 - Marcus Stroman post game comments
52:30 - Shane Dawson
9/3/2015 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 21 - June 18th, 2015 (Player/Coach Interviews)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
Charlie was on location at Nat Bailey Stadium this week, and had a chance to interview a number of C's before the season began.
0:14:00 - Clinton Hollon, Starting Pitcher
0:22:30 - John Schneider, Manager
0:41:15 - Lane Thomas, Second Base
0:46:30 - Sean Ratcliffe, Relief Pitcher
0:56:00 - Jim Czajkowski, Pitching Coach
6/19/2015 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 20 - June 11th, 2015 (Guest: Ewan Ross)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
This week's guest is Ewan Ross, a writer and podcaster for BlueJaysPlus.com.
0:03:00 - MLB Draft breakdown
0:33:00 - Vancouver Canadians roster speculation
0:43:00 - Random Blue Jays discussion
Then it all goes downhill from there...
Here is a link to the Netflix documentary that Ewan references at about the 1:08:00 mark: http://t.co/DeGT4h6Ljc
6/11/2015 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 1 second
Episode 19 - March 26, 2015
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
Topics discussed include:
- Marcus Stroman's injury and its effect on the Jays rotation
- The bullpen shakedown, including comments from Steve Delabar
- Thoughts on Castro/Norris/Travis supposedly making the major league roster
3/27/2015 • 56 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 18 - March 4th, 2015 (Guest: Kyle Matte)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
This week's guest is Kyle Matte, a writer for CapitalJays.com. He joins the podcast at around the 9:00 mark. Topics include Marcus Stroman's pitch repertoire, Russell Martin's impact on the pitching staff, what to do with Dioner Navarro, and much more.
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
This week was the annual Vancouver Canadians Hot Stove Luncheon, and Charlie Caskey had the opportunity to chat with four current Blue Jays players - Drew Hutchison, Aaron Sanchez, Marcus Stroman, and Russell Martin!
31:03 - Drew Hutchison
37:23 - Aaron Sanchez
52:57 - Marcus Stroman
1:05:00 - Russell Martin
1/30/2015 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 47 seconds
Episode 16 - January 6th, 2015 (Guest: Bernie Pleskoff)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
Former scout Bernie Pleskoff (@BerniePleskoff) of MLB.com and MLBPipeline.com joins us to discuss the Blue Jays options at a number of different positions heading into 2015, his thoughts on Blue Jays players that he has evaluated in person, and what he thinks of Alex Anthopoulos' offseason transactions so far.
1/7/2015 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 34 seconds
Episode 15 - December 7th, 2014 (Guest: Ewan Ross)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
Ewan Ross (@Mentoch) of BlueJaysPlus.com joins us to discuss everything that has happened in the Blue Jays off-season to this point.
12/7/2014 • 51 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 14 - December 6th, 2014 (Guest: Chris Mellen)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
Baseball Prospectus has dropped their anticipated top 10 Blue Jays prospects list, and we have Chris Mellen on to discuss the thought behind making the list - and his overall opinion on some of the players.
12/6/2014 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 13 - October 13th, 2014 (Guests: Anthony Alford, Tom Robson)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
7:00 - Anthony Alford joins us to discuss his decision to leave college and his football career to play baseball full time in the Toronto Blue Jays minor league system.
40:00 - Vancouver's own Tom Robson comes on to update us on his recovery from Tommy John Surgery, and also chats about a few of his experiences over the past couple seasons.
10/14/2014 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 12 - October 9th, 2014 (Guest: Andrew Stoeten)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
After a brief discussion about the Arizona Fall League and instructional league, we bring in Andrew Stoeten (@AndrewStoeten) of Drunk Jays Fans and TheScore.ca to talk about the Blue Jays. He joins the podcast at about the 17:30 mark.
10/10/2014 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 35 seconds
Mike Reeves Talks Blue Jays Pitching Prospects
A recap segment of our interview with Mike Reeves, a catcher in the Blue Jays organization.
In this clip he speaks about:
• Kendall Graveman
• Daniel Norris
• Matt Smoral
• Jairo Labourt
• Miguel Castro
• Alberto Tirado
10/2/2014 • 9 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 11 - September 26, 2014 (Guest: Mike Reeves)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
After the Canadians failed to win their 4th straight NWL championship, we break down the season and how the playoffs went for the Vancouver Canadians.
We're also joined by a special guest in the 2nd half, catcher Mike Reeves! His interview is a must-listen, as he breaks down his own season, and what he saw from various Blue Jays pitching prospects.
9/27/2014 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 10 - August 31st, 2014
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
The Canadians are in the playoffs! This week we discuss Matt Smoral's final start of the season, and how the C's roster is shaping up for their first round matchup against Spokane.
Also discussed: the Blue Jays playoff hopes, Dunedin, Buffalo, Bluefield, New Hampshire, and Lansing's final week of the season, and Charlie has a few more brain farts!
9/1/2014 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 1 second
Episode 9 - August 21st, 2014
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
As the NWL season comes to a head, Charlie and Greg discuss the C's road to grabbing a playoff spot. There has been a rash of moves recently by the Blue Jays, moving prospects up and down. Daniel Norris, Miguel Castro, Dalton Pompey and Rowdy Tellez are just some of the names discussed in this episode.
8/22/2014 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 8 - August 1st, 2014 (Guest: Chris Sherwin)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
31:00 - Chris Sherwin (@CWSherwin) of Blue Jays Plus joins Charlie to discuss pitching mechanics, and his thoughts on some Blue Jays pitching prospects.
8/2/2014 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 7 - July 27th, 2014
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
The first half of the NWL season is over, and we wrap up the Canadians' second place finish. Also discussed: Max Pentecost, Jairo Labourt, Zak Wasilewski, and Aaron Sanchez!
7/28/2014 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 6 - July 20th, 2014
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
This week we discuss the arrival of first round draft pick Max Pentecost to Vancouver, and pitcher Miguel Castro's recent starts.
We also talk a little bit about the rest of the Blue Jays organization, the prospect game during the major league all star break, and what to expect from the Canadians in the second half of the season,
7/21/2014 • 58 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 5 - July 4th, 2014 (Guests: Ian Hunter, Connor Penfold)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects. After a recap of the Vancouver Canadians week, guest Ian Hunter (@BlueJayHunter) joins in to chat about the Blue Jays, and Connor Penfold (@giant_potential) joins to talk about visiting Salem-Keizer and the San Francisco Giants recent draft.
0:00 - 24:00 - Vancouver Canadians Recap
24:00 - 1:00:00 - Ian Hunter
1:00:00 - 1:38:00 - Conner Penfold
7/5/2014 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 4 - June 30th, 2014
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects.
7/1/2014 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 3 - June 25, 2014 (Guests: Jason Parks, Shane Dawson)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects. This week includes discussion about the start of the season for the Vancouver Canadians, plus Charlie interviews Jason Parks (@ProfessorParks)of Baseball Prospectus and Lansing Lugnuts pitcher Shane Dawson!
0:00 - 48:00 - Vancouver Canadians discussion
48:00 - 1:21:00 - Charlie with Jason Parks (@ProfessorParks)
1:25:30 - 1:42:00 - Charlie with Shane Dawson
6/26/2014 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 2 - June 13th, 2014 (Guest: Jesse Goldberg-Strassler)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects. This week includes audio from the Vancouver Canadians media day, discussion about the roster, and Charlie chats with Jesse Goldberg-Strassler - voice of the Lansing Lugnuts!
0:00-19:50 - Canadians roster discussion
19:50-52:40 - Media day audio
52:40-1:03:47 - General Blue Jays minor league discussion
1:03:47-End - Charlie with Jesse Golberg-Strassler
6/14/2014 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 1 - June 8th, 2014 (Guests: Ewan Ross, Jim Czajkowski)
Join Greg Balloch and Charlie Caskey as they host a Vancouver-centric podcast about the Toronto Blue Jays and their minor league prospects. Guests include Ewan Ross from BlueJaysPlus, Jim Czajkowski - New Hampshire Fisher Cats pitching coach, and draft prospect Handsome Monica.
0:00-57:30 - Blue Jays draft discussion with Ewan Ross
57:30-1:25:20 - Charlie Caskey with Jim Czajkowski
1:25:20-1:40:10 - Greg Balloch with Handsome Monica