Former Blue Jays slugger Randy Ruiz staying in Japan — for now
Several foreign baseball players in Japan already have left the country, or are leaving, because of the mounting disasters there.
Other players have requested permission to go.
Former major league slugger Randy Ruiz, who most recently played for the Toronto Blue Jays, hasn't reached that point. Yet.
Ruiz is staying in a hotel with his team — the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles...
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March 17, 2011
Ruiz in Japan
Randy Ruiz is playing ball in Japan, with an apartment overlooking Sendai, ground zero for the disaster in that country. He was away at the time, but he is not sure what’s going to happen next:
Ruiz said some American players from other teams have left the country. He wants to stay and eventually play, as long as it’s safe. There are fears that more than 10,000 people...
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March 17, 2011
Randy Ruiz Free In Japan: Has He Spread His Wings?
Everyone’s favourite future-Babe-Ruth Randy Ruiz was released by the Blue Jays in late May and quickly signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. He arrived with the team on May 25 but took a few days to get acclimated to Japan before actually seeing any playing time.
So, of course he has already hit 20 bombs right? Not exactly. Ruiz has struggled so far in Japan, having...
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June 21, 2010
Sayonara,. Randy
The story is easily found everywhere, of course, that the Jays waived Randy Ruiz who then hooked up with a Japanese team. but there's more to it than a simple pair of unrelated transactions. According to the lovely and talented Erika Gilbert, writing in the National Post, there's much more.It seems that Alex Anthopoulos (and/or his staff) not only allowed Ruiz to peruse a...
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May 19, 2010
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May 19, 2010
Blue Jays Release Randy Ruiz
The Blue Jays released Randy Ruiz, tweets MLB.com's Jordan Bastian. Ruiz then signed a contract with Japan's Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Via *D MLB Trade Rumors
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May 19, 2010
Randy Ruiz and Other Jays Destroying Winter Ball
Randy Ruiz
Jeez, we’re almost turning into a Randy Ruiz fan site! From this January 2009 quote by myself
The Blue Jays recently signed longtime minor league Randy Ruiz to a contract. In my opinion, this is the best FA signing by the Jays this offseason.
to Callum’s quote from a Randy Ruiz bio and profile (April 2009) [...]
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January 22, 2010
Frickin' AAA!
The Jays Triple-A all-star representative gets the limelight in the world wide web phenomenon known as the Batter's Box POTD. ;D
Congratulations to first baseman/DH Randy Ruiz, who's pictured here on Jays Vision in his first appearance as a Blue Jay at the Rogers Centre. The 32 year-old Bronx Bomber celebrated his first at-bat with a bomb to center field...
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November 13, 2009
Blue Jays' Ruiz loses solo homer to video review
TORONTO (AP) -- Blue Jays rookie Randy Ruiz had a solo home run overturned on replay in the second inning of Toronto's game against the New York Yankees in the first video replay call at Rogers Centre.
Via SI.com
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September 05, 2009
My Favourite Tweets
My Favourite Tweets
It’s good to be back. I have been in Europe for 3 weeks with little to no information pertaining to my beloved Blue Jays. So Halladay stays, Rolen is gone and my boy Randy Ruiz is up. However, the boys in blue are scuffling dreadfully. The little information I did receive was from [...]
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August 14, 2009
JP Anger, Roy Halladay to LAA & Free Randy Ruiz
JP Anger, Roy Halladay to LAA & Free Randy Ruiz
As we all know by now, yesterday Roy Halladay gave JP a list of teams that he’d be willing to move to. This promoted me to tweet my thoughts. Eyebeleaf over at the great Sports and the City tweeted back. And then things broke down
MUD (mopupduty)
Halladay [...]
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July 24, 2009
THE RANGERS HOT 25
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