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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dave Stieb’s numbers against the field on September 4, 1984. He’ll get one Cy Young Award vote and finish seventh. It’s all about THE WINS, man. (Truth: it’ll be a rough September, but he still pitches 8+IP in four of six starts.)

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

September 2, 1990: 4:02 p.m. THE NINTH INNING! Chris James flies out! Candy Maldonado strikes out! Alex Cole walks. Jerry Browne lines out! “He. Has. GOT IT! A no-hitter for Dave Stieb! The long frustration is finally over!” - Don Chevrier #InternationalDaveStiebNoHitterDay

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sunday, September 2, 1990. The most satisfying date in Dave Stieb history. Happy International Dave Stieb No-hitter Day to those who celebrate! #DaveStieb #NoHitter #BlueJays #InternationalDaveStiebNoHitterDay

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

August 29, 2026 - 🚨🎥 Dave Stieb and gang at the ribbon-cutting ceremony to official open the Toronto Blue Jays Hall Of Excellence. Nice shirts, guys. RIP Tony, Tom, Doc. And welcome aboard, Buck Martinez! #Retire37

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

August 1, 2026 (1/3) - 🚨 In today’s paper, Dave Stieb tops a Toronto Star poll as the Greatest #BlueJays player of All-Time. He finishes 1-1-2 on three lists. Let the debates over “refreshing” down-ballot picks begin! Get to yer newsstand for a BIG weekend read from the Star.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

July 22, 2026 - 🚨 Happy 69th Birthday to Dave Stieb! 🚨 We hope Sir Dave is enjoying a wonderful breakfast on his big day. Yes, Dave knew what all @torontobluejays.bsky.social fans knew: *nothing* beat late night/early morning Golden Griddle 'cakes!

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

July 20, 2026 - 📽️ Our "Celebration of A Baseball Life" for @BlueJays legend, Duane Ward. 🙏🏼 Duane left us on Saturday, and here are various clips with Dave Stieb, Duane's @cdnbaseballhof.bsky.social speech (with @thehazelmae.bsky.social as host), and more. (Cc: @wilnerness.bsky.social) 📽️

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

June 16, 2026 (1/2) - Kids, ALWAYS check the sports section before you recycle the paper. Oops! A month ago today, this Dave Stieb #BlueJays piece by Mike Wilner adorned The Star’s sports page: a fond recollection of the first Jays superstar’s wildly unusual origin story.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

May 23, 2026:🧵Big new chart. Lot to absorb. Bookmark it.📊 Dave Stieb’s May 22, 1991 injury derailed his Hall Of Fame track. He got 1.4% of the BBWAA vote. Peak and prime lost out to counting stats. (He’s neither the first nor last there.) Now, modern voters seek new paths to electing starters.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

March 11, 2026 - Play a little What If? with us. Where would the peak Dave Stieb of Bobby Cox’s 1982-85 #BlueJays tenure slot into that iconic ‘90s Atlanta Braves rotation? We’re saying two-hole, after the brilliant Greg Maddux, a tick above Tom Glavine. John Smoltz’s your number-four.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

May 9, 2026 [redux] -🚨Bobby Cox is a Toronto Blue Jays legend. This is our tribute video to a Hall of Famer, a World Series champion and a four-time Manager of the Year. 🎥 RIP Coxie. #BlueJays

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

RIP Bobby Cox (1941-2026) The best manager in Toronto #BlueJays history. All-time @baseballhall.org legend. Dave Stieb’s favourite, too. RIP, Coxie. You were one of a kind. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

⚾ #StiebNation, we've made a donation to crohnsandcolitis.ca canada on behalf of @wilnerness.bsky.social and his Uncle who recently left us, and would encourage you to do the same. (FYIEB, Duane Ward was their Honourary Spokesperson in 1994, and we remember his TV adverts for this back in the day.)

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

December 14, 1981 (1/2) - 🚨 Philadelphia attempts to trade *SIX* of their players to the #BlueJays for Dave Stieb. (I.e.b., you know you've made it when.) 💪🏼 Why? How? Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

December 13, 1992 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb is one of the greatest competitors this game has had." - fellow 1992 #BlueJays World Series Champion, Candy Maldonado. The new member of the #Cubs speaks about the new member of the #WhiteSox in glowing terms. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

December 11, 1981 - 🚨 Dave Stieb and his agent are looking for more than an arbitration biut with the #BlueJays. And why not? He just had the 1st winning season by a pitcher (and a 10th place MVP vote). But it won't go well and be another thorn in the relationship. 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

December 7, 1981 - 🙏🏼 Even GOD HIMSELF wanted Dave Stieb in trade! 🙏🏼 As the 2025 #MLB Winter Meetings kick off tonight, let's look back at the umpteenth time a rival team tried to pry Stieb away from the #BlueJays. Read on...🧵

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

December 7, 2025 (1/2) - Just a friendly reminder of what's at stake - in our familiar chart form - at 7:30 p.m. EST, as the @baseballhall.org's Era Committee announces its 2026 vote results. No matter what, there'll be tears 'n' jeers. That's how it works. TABLE: eligible pitchers

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

December 5, 1991 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb could be back on the pitching mound in 3 months." Dr. Arthur White trims the ruptured disk in Stieb’s back, from that freak collision on May 22. Optimism abounds. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

December 3, 1983 (1/3) - 🚨 Victory! The first of the two agents suing Dave Stieb (🤯?) in the winter of 1983 gets their lawsuit dismissed. And it's former #BlueJays teammate turned agent, Dave Lemanczyk. WTF? Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

December 2, 2003 (1/3) - 🚨 The 2025 Eras Committee ignoring of Dave Stieb for the @baseballhall.org of Fame is as bitter a taste as when he hit the writers ballot in '03 (thanks to '98 comeback), only to not make the 5% cut to stay a 2nd year. Jon Bois explains the details in the video below... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays winner is...Lou Whitaker! Lou's time vs. Stieb was not very sweet. Lou had 87 PAs against Stieb and of all the players with 60 or more PAs, Whitaker finished with the 2nd worst OPS. Let's dive into more... 🧵 ⚾️

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

⚾️ NEW Stieb INTERVIEW!!! - Betway Insider talks to Dave Stieb about radar guns now vs the 1980s, sticky substances, and his love of new analytics. Read the article here ✅️ blog.betway.com/mlb/dave-sti... ⚾️

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Dave Stieb interview: Sticky stuff, bat flips, Cy Young, Hall of Fame | Betway Insider

The former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher reveals his views on the modern game and reflects on his 16-year MLB career.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

November 29, 1988 (1/2) - 🚨 Dave Stieb and Fred McGriff win #BlueJays Pitcher and Player Of The Year; a celebration of Stieb's return to domination. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

November 27, 1990 (1/3) - 🚨 These happy fellows finish 1-2 in the voting for #BlueJays Pitcher Of The Year. It's Dave Stieb 5th win with David Wells finishing a distant second. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

November 25, 1981 (1/2) - 🚨 Dave Stieb is the first Blue Jay to get a MVP vote (10th place) finishing in a 27th-place tie with George Brett for 1981 AL MVP. Stieb’s 4.4 WAR (a prorated 6.7) ranks 3rd for AL pitchers in ‘81 and ties for 9th among all players. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays winner this week is...Eddie Murray! Stieb and Murray faced each other 67 times...the first being Stieb's first start on June 29, 1979; the 7th batter Stieb ever faced in the #MLB. Let's dive into more... 🧵 ⚾️

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

⚾️ Yes, #BlueJays fans, making the World Series will cause an even steeper rise in ticket prices and concessions...oh wait. This one is from 1983, their 1st winning season. But the Stieb Easter Egg is in the Notes section: Stieb is getting sued by TWO agents. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

November 20, 1990 - 🚨 Dave Stieb finishes with his 2nd highest MVP voting of his career. This time, he gets one 10th place vote to earn him 25th place. (1984 was his highest with 22nd place; 1981 saw him finish 27th place.) 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays! ⚾️ A feature where *you* can submit your requests for how Dave Stieb performed head-to-head vs the best (or just your personal fav)! Let's look at one of Stieb's biggest nemesis, *Wade Boggs*! Read on... 🧵

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

November 16, 1985 (1/2) - 🚨 A great thought piece (from the Great One's home, Brantford, Ontario) by Ted Beare on the different sides of Dave Stieb at his peak, at a peak moment (so far) of despair, after the #BlueJays lost in Game 7 to the Royals in the ALCS. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

November 15, 1989 (1/3) - Bret Saberhagen romps to the 1989 Cy Young Award…and he absolutely deserves it. But one pitcher - the difference-maker in the AL East division race - is totally absent from the BBWAA ballot. Guess who, Dave Stieb fans? #BlueJays #CyYoungAward

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

November 13, 1990 (1/2) - Five years after last appearing on a Cy Young Award ballot, the #BlueJays' Dave Stieb finishes in a fifth-place tie for 1990's top honour, with two third-place votes from 28 BBWAA scribes. It's the mainstream's belated acknowledgement of his return to form in 1988.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

November 8, 2023 (redux) (1/3) - Still got Halls of Fame on the brain (I wonder why). Here's the San Jose Sports Hall Of Fame 2023 class (Lorrie Fair, Patrick Marleau, Dave Stieb, Chris Wondolowski) with their official plaques, permanently displayed on the concourse at the SAP Center.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

November 8, 2023 [continued] - In summer 2023, we were asked to contribute to Dave Stieb's San Jose Sports Hall of Fame induction video, which played just before his acceptance speech. It's a great clip. Here's our trailer-length edit:📽️ In the "tweet" BELOW, a link to the FULL clip.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

November 8, 2023 (1/3) -🚨A picture's worth a thousand-and-thirty-seven words! A #BlueJays legend becomes part of his hometown’s sporting firmament: Dave Stieb is inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.⚾️ #SanJoseSportsAuthority

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

November 7, 2025 (1/2) - Buck Martinez Appreciation Post October 14, 1976: In the biggest game of his career, Buck goes 3-for-4 in G5 of the ALCS (aka the "Chambliss game"). He's also confounded everyone with the pronunciation of his surname. We've all been saying it wrong?🤯

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

November 7, 1948 -🚨 Future Dave Stieb teammate and #BlueJays icon Buck Martinez is born in Redding, CA.🎂 Playing for Milwaukee, he singled in Stieb’s first home start and win, July 9, 1979. Buck caught Stieb 88 times, to a 3.05 ERA (Stieb's career ERA was 3.44).

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

November 4, 1982 [P2] - The 1982 Cy Young voting debacle - nicely summed up by Jon Bois' Captain Ahab doc in this clip📽️ - creates a butterfly effect felt even in 2025: Dave Stieb's easier to overlook by Era Committee Hall Of Fame panels without that hardware, isn't he. 1/3

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

November 4, 1982 [P1] - Oh, goody! Time for this old favourite again. The 1982 AL Cy Young Award vote's in. Milwaukee's Pete Vuckovich wins. The #BlueJays' Dave Stieb's fourth. Look at Pete's K:BB ratio! 1/2

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

November 3, 2025 (1/3):🚨The @baseballhall.org has released its 2026 Contemporary Era Hall of Fame ballot. Dave Stieb has been overlooked. Carlos Delgado IS on the ballot. Congratulations, #25! Best of luck next month. Following: two charts showing the eight candidates vis-à-vis their peers.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

November 3, 2025: The @baseballhall.org's released its 2026 Contempoary Era Hall of Fame ballot. There's a legendary #BlueJays player included, but it's not Dave Stieb. Six hitters, two pitchers - the split we hoped and expected. Results announced December 7. More to come.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

November 2, 1982 (1/3) - 🚨The votes are in! Dave Stieb wins The Sporting News' 1982 A.L. Pitcher of the Year award, a huge hit of mainstream recognition for the rapidly improving #BlueJays. Read on... 🧵 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

November 2, 2025 - The 2025 Blue Jays - a likeable, great team - lost a marvellous World Series last night. The one of us here who's less partisan, perhaps a bit angrier about the org's legacy-ignorant shenanigans, began wondering whether there was a curse. Maybe it's real. #CurseOf37

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

November 1, 2025 (1/2) - Tone deaf move by the Blue Jays to give Jack Morris the first pitch tonight (alongside Paul Molitor, mind). Never mind the career-long feud with Dave Stieb. Never mind the fact Stieb didn't throw a pitch this month. Jack Morris is just a disappointing human.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

October 30, 1984 (1/3) - Cy Young votes are in! Dave Stieb's modern-day case: 7.9 bWAR (1st; Blyleven 7.2) 5.6 WAA (1st; Blyleven 5.1) 48.45 RE24 (1st; Hernandez 38.28) 146 ERA+ (1st; Blyleven 144) 267 IP (1st; Hough 266) 2.83 ERA (2nd; Boddicker 2.79) He finishes... seventh. With one vote.

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

October 28, 1985 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb, you're going to Disneyland!" (Okay, they probably all went after winning the World Series in 1992, but here he is after the ALCS defeat, winding down with his family...) 🚨

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Today In Dave Stieb History @davestiebtoday.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

October 26, 1992 [P2]: Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth emcee the rally inside SkyDome, with 40-odd #BlueJays briefly taking the mic. Most keep it pretty basic. Dave Stieb’s bottled a lot of thoughts in 14 years with Toronto. He’s not an over-sharer. 🚨Today, though, he lets it all out.📽️

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