The 2026 Major League Baseball season will mark the Toronto Blue Jays’ 50th season, and the team has something special to help celebrate a half-century of baseball in Toronto.
“Touch ‘em all, Joe. You’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life.”
It's a call that just about every Blue Jays fan knows — and a moment that now will be immortalized forever as Joe Carter’s legendary knock will be turned into a statue outside Rogers Centre.
The announcement was made in a video the Jays posted to social media showing Blue Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro and president Paul Beeston surprising Carter with news that he would be made into bronze.
“Next year we’re celebrating our 50th and we’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the best ways to celebrate that,” Shapiro said in the video. “Something that our fans have been clamouring for and we both get emails about all the time. We’re gonna have a statue out front in between Gate 5 and Gate 6. …
“First World Series won on Canadian soil and something for our fans to be able to come when they come to the games to be able to spend time and remember and celebrate.”
“My teammates from ’92 and ’93 are a special group, and we all understood what it meant to play for an entire country. We felt such pride wearing the maple leaf on our uniforms. Fans embraced us, and we loved them right back. This statue is for the fans,” Carter said in a release.
The Blue Jays won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993, capped off by Carter’s three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth of Game 6 of their 1993 series with the Philadelphia Phillies to clinch the title again.
Toronto made its first World Series appearance since 1993 just last season, falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.
Blue Jays pitchers and catchers report for spring training on Feb. 11. The team begins its 2026 season on March 27 at home against the Athletics.
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