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Two Blue Jays Make Keith Law's Top 100 List Plus Other Notes
After Baseball Prospectus had three Blue Jays in their top 101 list yesterday, ESPN writer Keith Law ranked only Aaron Sanchez and Marcus Stroman in the top 100 prospects in baseball in his list today....
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Toronto Blue Jays 2013 Offseason: The Darkest or Best Timeline?
A Quick and Dirty Post. According to Shi Davidi, Ian Kinsler and Brett Anderson would have been Blue Jays if deals hadn't gone south.Here is the link.Deals that could've been alter Blue Jays' plans -...
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Blue Jays nearly had deals for Ian Kinsler, Brett Anderson, per report
The Jays have remain “very active and very involved” in the pitching market.For a team that finished in last place in 2013, the Blue Jays have been incredibly quiet this offseason, but not for a lack...
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Alomar, Bell, Hentgen, and Quantrill will be Blue Jays guest instructors
Very minor things from the State of the Franchise.We are two weeks away from the official opening of Blue Jays spring training, where fans will see some familiar names present in Dunedin as guest...
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A.J. Burnett, Best Pitcher Available
Forget Ubaldo Jimenez or Ervin Santana, A.J. Burnett is the best pitcher–and player-still available on the free-agent market.When news broke on Tuesday that A.J. Burnett was open to pitching for a team...
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Bronson Arroyo rumors: 'Don't believe everything you read'
Arroyo might have been being a little hyperbolic when he said he didn't have an offer to turn down. After Bronson Arroyo's comments on the lack of offers he's received, the baseball world responded...
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Keith Law's Top Ten Blue Jay Prospects
Keith Law posted his Top 10 Blue Jay Prospects (subscription required).His top ten are:Aaron SanchezMarcus StromanRobert OsunaDaniel NorrisAdonis CardonaJairo LabourtAlberto TiraroFranklin...
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Michael Young retires
The former All-Star has decided to call it quits. Seven time All-Star and former face of the Texas RangersMichael Young has decided to retire in order to spend more time with his family, reports Fox...
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Blue Jays moving Brent Morel to second base
In an off-season with very little news, MLB Trade Rumors, pointed us to this:Talked to Brent Morel at the East Bank club in Chicago today. He has been told he will be moved to second base by the Blue...
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Community Projection: Colby Rasmus
I should stay off the site when I have a headache, sorry about posting Adam Lind twice.Let's do Colby Rasmus instead.Colby had a pretty good 2013, if we ignore the injuries that kept him to 118 games....
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Jason Parks Wanted LHP Daniel Norris in the Baseball Prospectus Top 101
Baseball Prospectus has a post up today on prospects who just missed the Top 101 list published a couple days ago. If you'll recall, Marcus Stroman, Aaron Sanchez, and Alberto Tirado all made the...
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Book Review - A Whole Different Ballgame by Marvin Miller
It is hard to think of another person in sports history who never played, coached, refereed, managed or owned a professional team and is as controversial as Marvin Miller. A labour economist from...
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Saturday Open Thread
I have a busy day ahead (among other things, I'm going to the Flames game tonight, I haven't been to an NHL game in years) and there isn't anything I particularly want to write about....so let's have...
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Second Annual BBB Super Bowl Prop Contest & GDT
It's Super Bowl Sunday, which is just another day closer to Spring Training for most of us, but we might as well have some fun with it! Last year we had a prop contest that was won by yours truly, but...
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Is the Rogers Centre getting new turf for the 2014 Blue Jays season?
It won't be natural green grass--yet--but it appears that the Rogers Centre might make a major improvement to the baseball playing field before the Toronto Blue Jays return home on April 4, 2014. Two...
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Today in Tortured Metaphors
Baseball is like a box of chocolates. No sorry, baseball is like an onion. No, baseball is like beer, hmmmm beer. I love tortured metaphors as much as anyone, but this one, by Buster Olney is just...
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Monday Mid-afternoon Media Mashup: Blue Jays in command edition
This preamble was supposed to be me writing about Buster Onley's weird (read: horrible) metaphor that involved the Blue Jays and Super Bowl beer vendors, but Tom did it for me already. Neat.Are the...
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Adam Lind and Rajai Davis: Separated at Birth
On a surface level Adam Lind and Rajai Davis don't have a lot in common. However, if you are willing to ignore a lot of obvious differences they are essentially clones. To say that it has been a slow...
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Tuesday Bantering: Jeff Baker signs, Ervin Santana's price drops
One more name to cross off your 'I wish the Jays would sign him' list:Jeff Baker gets $1.6MM in 2014, $2.1MM in 2015 on #Marlins deal.— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) February 4, 2014 But maybe another...
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New artificial turf for Rogers Centre in 2015, Blue Jays to play on...
In an attempt to improve the playing surface in the Rogers Centre before natural grass is installed in 2018, the Blue Jays are refurbishing the current AstroTurf by replacing the infill layer in order...
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