No. 7: Toronto Blue Jays

Our next preview will include some early-season baseball thoughts—some pretty wild stuff happening all around the game right now. How about that crazy no-hitter on Monday night?

I did want to remind everyone—especially those of you in the Kansas City area—that I will be at Ottawa University on Friday, giving the keynote at the Baseball in Literature and Culture Symposium. At the link, you can see some of the sessions going on—looks like lots of fun seminars. Take the day off! Your boss won’t mind!

Shouldn’t the Blue Jays go all in on the whole Sons of Big Leaguers thing?

On Opening Day this year, the Blue Jays’ super-son combination of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, Daulton Varsho and Cavan Biggio went 4 for 14 with four walks, two home runs, five runs and four RBIs.

I was looking for a comprehensive list of Major League Baseball sons… I’m sure it’s out there, but I couldn’t find it. So I tried to put a quick list together myself. I’m sure I’m missing some, maybe even a bunch, probably someone super-obvious—I did this in only a few minutes. But I count 19 big-league sons making Opening Day rosters this season. They include: