Jonah Birenbaum

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Senior Editor, Multimedia at TheScore

senior editor, multimedia, @thescore. still scratching around in the same old hole.

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Watch: Who's been the key to the Blue Jays' recent surge?

1 week ago | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

Every night, it seems a different hero steps up for the suddenly red-hot Toronto Blue Jays (40-33), who currently sit two games back of the American League East lead, thanks to a 19-11 stretch dating back to mid-May. But who has impressed the most over the course of Toronto's recent turnaround? The Blue Jays are on a ROLL as of late. Who has been the key player to Toronto’s recent turnaround?
Watch: What on earth are the Red Sox doing?

1 week ago | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

For the second time in the last five-plus years, the Boston Red Sox have traded away their franchise cornerstone for ... reasons, apparently? And with Rafael Devers inexplicably on his way to San Francisco, the ascendant Red Sox will have to return to contention without their longtime offensive centerpiece. What are the Red Sox cooking with this Devers deal??
Watch: It's time to give David Peterson some love

2 weeks ago | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

There may not be a more underrated starter in baseball than David Peterson, the New York Mets left-hander whose two-year run of quiet dominance culminated Wednesday with his first career complete-game shutout. Written and narrated by: Jonah Birenbaum (@Birenball | X, Instagram)
Watch: MLB's most intimidating pitching prospect is here

2 weeks ago | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

Who is baseball's hardest-throwing starter? Hunter Greene? Paul Skenes? Tarik Skubal? Nope. It's Jacob Misiorowski, the flame-throwing Milwaukee Brewers prospect who will make his MLB debut Thursday at American Family Field. Written and narrated by: Jonah Birenbaum (@Birenball | X, Instagram)
Watch: Red Sox give Boston a new 'Big 3'

2 weeks ago | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

With the long-awaited promotion of top prospect Roman Anthony, Boston's trio of highly touted youngsters – the so-called "Big Three" – has officially graduated to the big-league level. And so begins a new era for the Red Sox... Written and narrated by: Jonah Birenbaum (@Birenball | X, Instagram)
How Danny Jansen quietly became a premier offensive catcher

Jun 22, 2024 | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

TORONTO – At some point in a whirlwind 2021 for the nomadic Blue Jays as they bounced from Florida to Buffalo before finally settling back in Toronto in late July, Danny Jansen also started making moves. Jansen's major-league career to that point had been a bumpy ride, a string of three-plus occasionally promising but often frustrating seasons. By the end of the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, Jansen owned a career .208 batting average through 181 games. His slugging percentage sat at .370.
Daulton Varsho has turned his biggest weakness into a strength

Jun 4, 2024 | thescore.com | Jonah Birenbaum

The game plan for how to get Daulton Varsho out became increasingly obvious as he stumbled through a bumpy first season with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2023: Attack him with fastballs. Elevated fastballs, ideally. Despite his above-average bat speed (71st percentile, according to Baseball Savant's new metrics), Varsho's struggles against fastballs (high fastballs, specifically) generally played an outsized role in what was undeniably the nadir of his young career.