Toronto Blue Jays pitcher is looking to buy a literal flamethrower
Toronto Blue Jays star Kevin Gausman is proving an old adage right: pitchers are generally sort of strange dudes.
In his four seasons in Toronto, Gausman has become a strong fan favourite, with his happy-go-lucky personality meshing well among the Blue Jays faithful.
Over the weekend, Gausman took to X to ask his followers a pretty simple question: anyone know where to get a flamethrower in Toronto?
Looking for a flamethrower. Anyone in Toronto know anyone?
— Kevin Gausman (@KevinGausman) June 28, 2025
The comments were filled with jokes about Gausman’s fastball, about his teammates, and about how to make one from scratch.
But MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson followed up Gausman’s tweet with a bit of journalism: Gausman wasn’t playing around.
“I should let everyone know that Kevin is serious about this. Flamethrower isn’t a metaphor here. He’s looking to acquire a literal flamethrower,” Matheson wrote.
It’s unclear what exactly Gausman wanted the flamethrower for.
Was it for a photoshoot for a promotional product? A new offseason workout training plan? A way to threaten the umpires? Or simply a practical use, like yardwork or burning uh… whatever an MLB star pitcher needs to burn.
Whatever the case, we can only hope that Gausman does it safely.
Flamethrowers aren’t banned in Canada — although, of course, they can’t be used as a weapon.
“You’re prohibited from possessing a certain class of firearms, and firearms are defined in the Criminal Code and other places as something that has a barrel and discharges a projectile,” Canadian lawyer Fady Mansour explained to Global in 2018 about a flamethrower Elon Musk was selling via The Boring Company. “This has a barrel but does not have a projectile, it doesn’t have a bullet of any sort that actually comes out of the barrel.”
With the MLB All-Star break coming up in just a few weeks, perhaps we’ll get an answer as to what exactly Gausman does with his downtime.