Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner

Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner

Longtime Toronto Blue Jays radio voice Mike Wilner hosts Deep Left Field, a baseball podcast from the Toronto Star. With great baseball coverage, opinion and analysis, Deep Left Field has everything you need to know about the Jays, specifically, and baseball in general.

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October 19, 2025 50 mins
Guest: Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman
 
For the first time this year, the Blue Jays will take the field knowing that if they lose, their season is over.
 
The Jays dug themselves a huge hole by losing the first two games of th...
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Guest: Ernie Clement

That was a tough loss. The Jays did what they needed to do in Seattle by winning two out of three to ensure they come back to Toronto with a chance to advance to the World Series (where the winner of the ALCS will face the Dodgers, who beat the Brewers Friday night). But the Jays will have to win both Game 6 on Sunday and Game 7 on Monday. It felt like the Blue Jays were on the cusp of winning this one but in t...

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Guest: Blue Jays outfielder Myles Straw
 
Game Four of the American League championship series is going to go down in Blue Jays history because of one singular moment – John Schneider's mound visit in the fifth inning in which Max Scherzer basically barked his manager off the mound.
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Guest: Blue Jays Offensive Player George Springer
 
SEATTLE - The Blue Jays pulled themselves back from the brink and Deep Left Field is here at T-Mobile Park in Seattle to tell you all about it.
 
After looking sluggish, to ...
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Guests: Blue Jays third baseman Addison Barger, left fielder Davis Schneider, associate manager DeMarlo Hale    
 
Deep Left Field is on the road in Seattle with your Toronto Blue Jays as they try to get back in their best-of-seven American League Championship Series with the Seattle Mariners, ha...
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Guest: Blue Jays outfielder Nathan Lukes    
 
All appears to be pretty bleak in Blue Jays land as they head north and west to Seattle trailing the best-of-seven American League Championship Series two games to none.
 
The co...
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Guest: Blue Jays reliever Mason Fluharty

The first ALCS to open up in Toronto since 1992 began the same way the last one did - with a Blue Jays loss.

The Jays got a leadoff home run from George Springer and then just one more hit the rest of the night and fell to the travel- and extra-inning-weary Seattle Mariners 3-1.

Mason Fluharty got two huge outs in the top of the eighth, striking out Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suarez to escap...

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Guests: Chris Bassitt and Davis Schneider
 
The American League Championship Series begins tonight and for the first time since 1993, it's opening up in Toronto.
 
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Guests: Toronto Star baseball columnist Gregor Chisholm, Kim's Convenience/The Mandalorian's Paul Sun-Hyung Lee   
 
It took a while, but the Toronto Blue Jays have an opponent in the American League Championship Series that begins Sunday night at Rogers Centre.
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The Blue Jays are going to the American League Championship Series!
 
The Jays shrugged off their ugly loss to the New York Yankees in Tuesday's Game 3 and did all the things that got them to this point on Wednesday - great defence, timely hitting, making their opponents pay for mistakes - and co...
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The Blue Jays quite literally kicked away their chance to sweep the Yankees in the American League division series, uncharacteristic errors and shoddy fielding giving New York the opportunity to overcome a five-run deficit and roar back to win the game and keep their playoff hopes alive for at least one more day.
 
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Guests: Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman, infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa

Two games into their post-season, the Blue Jays are doing things that have never been done before – not just by them, but by anyone.

No team had ever scored 23 runs in the first two games of a post-season until the Jays did it in taking a two games to none stranglehold on their best-of-five American League Division Series with the New York Yankees.

No pitcher had...

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On this playoff bonus episode of Deep Left Field, we go over the Blue Jays’ blowout of the New York Yankees in Game 1 of their ALDS on Saturday, the Jays’ first post-season win in nine years and one that snapped a seven-game playoff losing streak.

Many demons were slayed, especially by Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who doubled his career playoff hit total and tripled his career playoff RBI total in a game that also included his first-eve...

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Guest: RUSH frontman and Blue Jays fanatic Geddy Lee

The Blue Jays are on the eve of their American League division series against the New York Yankees, which begins Saturday afternoon. We talk to the Jays' most famous fan, the lead singer, bassist and keyboardist from the legendary Canadian rock band Rush, who also happens to be a massive baseball geek.

Geddy Lee shares his thoughts on the Blue Jays' worst-to-first season, how muc...

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Guests: 2025 Blue Jays MVP, Rookie of the Year and Unsung Hero

We don't want to spoil the surprise for you, so as the Jays' American League division series draws ever closer, check out this episode of Deep Left Field to find out who the players, coaches and other uniformed personnel voted as their end-of-season award winners.

We're joined by the MVP, who got 45 of 53 votes cast, Rookie of the Year, who got 48, and Unsung Hero, who ...

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Guests: Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement, pitchers Jeff Hoffman and Eric Lauer

As the Blue Jays prepare to play in the American League Division Series for the first time since 2016, we take you back onto the field in the wake of their division-clinching win Sunday.

Ernie Clement is the poster boy for the Jays' cast of unsung heroes and versatile contributors, and he joins us to talk about his multiple roles over the course of the ...

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Guests: Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette, Toronto Star baseball columnist Gregor Chisholm

The Blue Jays are American League East champions.

They clinched the division with a 13-4 mauling of the Tampa Bay Rays at Rogers Centre Sunday, giving them the AL East crown for the first time in ten years. It was the first time they'd clinched at home since 1993.

We talk to injured shortstop Bo Bichette about his season, the comeback from last...

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Guest: Blue Jays pitcher Tommy Nance

With 161 games done and the American League East still in question, we present a bonus episode of Deep Left Field.

The final game of the regular season goes Sunday, and a Blue Jays home win over the Tampa Bay Rays gives them their first division title since 2015. So does a Yankees home loss against Baltimore.

We talk to Tommy Nance, whose scoreless eighth inning in Saturday's Jays win whittled h...

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Guest: Blue Jays Associate Manager DeMarlo Hale

The Blue Jays are going into the season's final weekend having clinched a playoff spot but not knowing whether they'll be the first, second or fourth seed in the American League. The only thing that's assured is that they will open the playoffs at home, whether that's in the wild card round or with a first-round bye.

We talk to Jays' associate manager DeMarlo Hale about a wild week in...

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