The Blue Jays will not play at the Olympic Stadium in 2022

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“With a route opening, this season’s logistics would have a negative competitive impact,” Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro said.

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Montreal Gazette

The Toronto Blue Jays host the St. Louis Cardinals in a preseason game at Olympic Stadium on March 26, 2018.
The Toronto Blue Jays host the St. Louis Cardinals in a preseason game at Olympic Stadium on March 26, 2018. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette Archives

The Highlanders will have to go for the third year in a row without seeing the Blue Jays play preseason games in the city, a tradition established in 2014.

Blue Jays President Mark Shapiro confirmed the decision to the Toronto Star on Tuesday .

“We are still hopeful of returning to Montreal for the exhibition games, but with a first away game, the logistics of this season would have a negative competitive impact,” Shapiro told the newspaper. “Therefore, we have postponed the opportunity for a year in the hope that we can review the possibility in future seasons.”

The Jays have scheduled all of their preseason games at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida, including the last weekend in March. There is an opening on March 29 and 30, which is when they would normally play at the Olympic Stadium, drawing tens of thousands of fans to the former home of the Montreal Expos, but the 2020 and 2021 events were canceled due to the pandemic. of COVID-19. .

Unless the Tampa Bay Rays are successful in a proposal to split the team’s home games with Montreal, there will be no Major League Baseball in the city until at least 2023.

Reference-montrealgazette.com

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