Jays Talk Plus: Confidence Rankings + Women in Baseball with Kelly McCormack & Jaida Lee

Blue Jays Talk

Blake Murphy is joined in-studio by JD Bunkis and Ben Ennis to discuss the future of the Jays' starting rotation, where Yusei Kikuchi fits in the schedule ahead of the post-season and maintaining Alek Manoah's outings, before re-igniting the concern index on Manoah's current workload, José Berríos' home and away splits, and George Springer's elbow injury (01:24). Afterward, the guys share their confidence rankings on which hitter they want at the dish to win a game, the best defensive fielder, if Teoscar Hernandez or Lourdes Gurriel Jr. is most valuable on the roster (30:08). Then, award winning writer and actress Kelly McCormack jumps on to discuss the Amazon Prime series "A League of Their Own", what attracted her to be part of the series and play a character from Canada, the comparisons between the series and the film, the opportunities to explore race, gender, and sexuality, and her excitement in throwing out the first pitch in Toronto (49:45). Team Newfoundland's Jaida Lee jumps on to chat about participating at the Canada Summer Games, what got her into the sport of baseball, what it meant to her being the first female to pitch at the games, competing against males, and what's next in her career (01:13:10).

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