Vladimir Guerrero Jr

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is showing that last season was just the beginning for the Toronto Blue Jays slugger after a special night at Yankee Stadium.

So for some on the Blue Jays staff, this might require some patience and more support from the offence to give them the runway they need. He’s also helping the Blue Jays win games that have always been a struggle for this team in the past. One is Hyun-Jin Ryu who had a nightmare inning against the Texas Rangers that have magnified the struggles he went through last season. Hitting 60 home runs in a single season hasn’t been done since 2001 when Sammy Sosa had 64 and Barry Bonds led the way with 73. It also shows how Guerrero Jr. can take over a game like only a few stars in the league can. When the Yankees ace tipped his cap to the Blue Jays slugger, he pretty much summed up what everybody watching that game was feeling.

Understandably, everyone was in awe of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s performance, including Yankees star Aaron Judge himself.

If anything, Guerrero is 0 of 2 with a strikeout in his career against the Yankees’ righty. Guerrero went deep in the first, third, and eighth innings. The Yankees will look to even up the series in the finale this Thursday night, as they also lost in the opener.

New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks wasn't convinced that Toronto Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s first home run was legit in Wednesday's ...

But even looking back at the videos, still feel like it hit the top of the wall and came back in.” “I felt like the ball came out of my glove and hit the top of the wall and came right back in,” he said. I wasn’t really sure.” “So I don’t know if it did hit something back there or not. Hicks ranged to the wall and jumped. What it hit, exactly, was a mystery.

New York Yankees players and manager Aaron Boone praise Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. after his three home run game at Yankee ...

Guerrero Jr.'s first homer of the night nearly stayed in the yard. The slugger is slashing .303/.358/.559 (57-for-188) with 11 home runs, 11 doubles and 32 RBI in 48 career games against New York. "That's the type of player he is. "You don't see many right handers elevate the ball like that off a Lo two-seam fastball and he obviously squared that one up," Boone added. He can take over a game." The 23-year-old wasn't finished.

The best way to describe Vladimir Guerrero Jr's 350th regular season game might be this: homer, bloodied hand, taped right ring finger, homer, double, ...

And in perhaps another sign of how impressive a career he is enjoying to date, the other three-homer game was April 27, 2021 when he hit two off Max Scherzer. All I did was just see the pitch and react.” “You’ve got to give him a lot of credit. The trailer Guerrero referenced was his 48 homers that made him the AL MVP runner up to Shohei Ohtani and also reached 40 homers on Labor Day at Yankee Stadium. “He was bleeding a lot,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said. It was the kind of display that made the movie Guerrero hinted as an opening weekend smash.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has matched his father's RBI total through his first 350 games. The Toronto Blue Jays star is living up to those high expectations.

Guerrero Jr. had a relatively disappointing first two seasons in the majors before dedicating himself to getting in shape. While his son is not going to match the speed, he has impressed with the bat lately. He is certainly picking up where he left off. His father, Vladimir Guerrero, was a Hall of Fame outfielder who was one of the greatest players in Expos history. The 2004 AL MVP posted a lifetime .318/.379/.553 batting line in his 16 year career, belting 449 homers and 477 doubles while stealing 181 bases. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had some major expectations to live up to when he arrived in the majors.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stole the spotlight at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night, treating it like a one-man show on Broadway. It was the 44th anniversary of ...

"People talking about the Reggie Bar," he said. Going into Thursday's game against the Yankees, he was hitting .391. Then he had that kind of night, against the Yankees in Yankee Stadium. "I didn't know it until I read it someplace," he said. "I believe if he'd played on bigger stages, he would have been looked at as having the quality of [Roberto] Clemente. And as great as Clemente was, he didn't have the power numbers that Vlad Sr. had." But then they came to New York. In baseball last night, Vlad was like The Beatles coming to town back in the day." Can you imagine how much bigger his dad would have been if he'd even played some of his prime in New York City?" "It was a true New York moment," Reggie said the next morning. There is no more exciting swing, no more exciting at-bat than when Guerrero is at the plate, carrying on a Hall of Fame name in baseball every time he steps to the plate. "Now the younger people may have to go back and look up what I'm referencing here," he said. "But it's like when The Beatles made their first appearance in New York on the old 'Ed Sullivan Show.' People already knew about The Beatles by then, obviously. On just three swings of the bat in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series, he became Mr. October for all times. Now here was this talented kid, Vlad Jr., hitting three against the Yankees, the last two after he'd been spiked on the right hand on a play at first base and required a bandage to close a gash.

Guerrero Jr. hit three home runs against the Yankees and is the early favorite for AL MVP (+380). He's the 163rd-highest-paid player in 2022, ...

After just 143 games, San Diego signed Tatis to the third-largest deal in MLB history, but the 14-year pact is just 27th in AAV ($24.3M) — an incredibly team-friendly deal if his production doesn’t fall off a cliff. The longer Toronto waits, the harder it could become to commit the time or cash to him — especially if the terms are comparable to fellow 23-year-old superstar Fernando Tatis Jr. (14 YRS/$340M). - Last season, the Blue Jays handed out the largest contract in franchise history to George Springer (6 YRS, $150M), which is only 25th by total value and 16th by AAV ($29.7M).

It's not like the bloodied digit bothered the Blue Jays phenom as he crushed three homers vs. the Yankees.

In between, he roped a double to the opposite field. Later, he clobbered a 95 mph sinker from Jonathan Loaisiga into the second deck in left field. And he did most of that damage with a bloodied right ring finger.