Archive for March, 2008
Blue Jays must avoid more injuries to challenge Red Sox, Yankees in AL East
Forget home runs, RBIs and ERA. This season, no statistic matters more to Toronto Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi than games lost to injury.
Thirteen different Blue Jays made 16 trips to the disabled list in 2007, combining to miss 951 games and consigning Toronto to another third-place finish behind AL East powerhouses Boston and [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2008.
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Scouting Jays Prospect #22: Adrian Martin
Adrian Martin provided huge innings as a starter in addition to being a reliever this past season. Martin features a repertoire that includes a 2-seam and 4-seam fastball, curveball, slider and a work in progress changeup. This new changeup is being worked on for a specific reason as well.
Posted: March 28th, 2008.
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Mound musings: Don’t mind the spring totals
We always caution against reading too much into spring training stats, and normally that’s an axiom to which I adhere.
Posted: March 27th, 2008.
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Blue Jays 8, Astros 3
Blue Jays third baseman Scott Rolen said Thursday his broken right middle finger could sideline him for six weeks.
Acquired from St. Louis in an offseason trade, Rolen was injured when was hit on the hand by a ball during a fielding drill Sunday on a back field. A screw was inserted in his finger during [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2008.
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Top 10 lessons I learned in Spring Training
Mike Harmon steps back from the action to give his written report about things learned and remembered for 2008.
Posted: March 27th, 2008.
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Reed Johnson: Provides Depth
Posted: March 27th, 2008.
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Questions pick up as spring winds down
Why is everyone writing off Atlanta? Are you shocked the Big Unit’s struggling? Tracy Ringolsby still has lots of questions as spring draws to a close.
Posted: March 27th, 2008.
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Blue Jays 6, Reds 3
Jesse Litsch pitched seven solid innings, Frank Thomas hit his first homer of the spring and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 on Wednesday night.
Litsch didn’t allow a hit through the first six innings but gave up two runs in the seventh on two hits. The former Tampa Bay batboy walked one, [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2008.
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OF Alex Rios and Toronto Blue Jays close in on big deal
Alex Rios and the Toronto Blue Jays are closing in on a six-year contract extension through 2014 that would guarantee him about $65 million.
The deal might include a 2015 option that could make it worth about $80 million.
It would be the second-richest contract in club history behind the $126 million, seven-year deal signed by center [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2008.
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Rays 10, Blue Jays 0
Everything went wrong for Roy Halladay and his defense in the fifth inning.
Toronto’s ace allowed 10 runs (four earned) in one horrible inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Blue Jays 10-0 on Tuesday.
Tampa Bay’s first 10 batters scored in the fifth on six hits and five Toronto errors - three by second baseman [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2008.
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