BLUE JAYS RUMORS & GOSSIP

Dutch RHP Rick VandenHurk agrees with Blue Jays

Dutch right-hander Rick VandenHurk has agreed to a one-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. The 26-year-old had no decisions and an 8.00 ERA in four games and eight innings for Baltimore last year and was 9-13 with a 4.43 ERA in 26 starts for the Orioles' Triple-A farm team at Norfolk. In the minors he held hitters to a .239 average. VandenHurk, who agreed to a non-guaranteed...
Via AP on Fox  |  5 hours ago
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DOs And DONTs: Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays have a pretty good young team.  The problem for them is that they play in the American League East.  They have to compete with the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays.  It isn’t easy being the Blue Jays.  The Jays were an 81 win team and can be even better.  I am going to take a look at their 40-man roster here as it pertains to fantasy...
Via Full Spectrum Baseball  |  10 hours ago
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The Battles This Spring

Blue Jays’ training camp opens tomorrow, although that hardly changes much down in Dunedin, where all coaches and nearly all players have long-since arrived and are holding informal daily workouts. It is to be lauded that so many players have shown up early when, in reality, there isn’t a ton on the line. You can essentially boil down the training camp battles to two significant...
Via Pro Sports Blogging  |  1 day ago
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Brett Lawrie in a Yankees Cap?

I think Dustin Parkes over at The Score summed it up best..."a new national nightmare has been realized in Canada."That's right...Toronto Blue Jays sensation (and Canadian product) Brett Lawrie has been photographed wearing a New York Yankees cap.Sure, sure, the thirdbaseman was a kid at the time, but, still...if I'm a Jays fan, I'm hoping my team holds on to the guy as long as...
Via Hall of Very Good  |  4 days ago
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Bautista, Lawrie lead way for TOR

Projected lineup SS - Yunel Escobar 2B - Kelly Johnson RF - Jose Bautista 1B - Adam Lind 3B - Brett Lawrie CF - Colby Rasmus DH - Edwin Encarnacion LF - Eric Thames/Travis Snider C - J.P. Arencibia SP - Ricky Romero SP - Brandon Morrow SP - Brett Cecil SP - Henderson Alvarez SP - Dustin McGowan/Kyle Drabek/Aaron Laffey CL - Sergio Santos Five things to think about...
Via Fox Sports  |  5 days ago
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First Look: Minor League Rosters, Part 1

So, having come to a reasonable consensus about who the best prospects are, where will they be playing in 2012? to answer that question we have to look at what players are still in the system from last year, who's been added, and which players earned promotions. In the case of actual prospects, the team resists the temptation to "push" a prospect (which is directly...
Via The Southpaw  |  7 days ago
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Where the Jays Stand – Relief Corps

The comments lauding the quality and depth of the Toronto Blue Jays’ bullpen heading into the 2012 season (‘three closers!’, ‘experience!’ ‘late-inning shutdown guys!’) seem all-too-familiar. It was just last season that the very same things were being said about a unit headlined by Frank Francisco, Jon Rauch and Octavio Dotel, none of whom are back for the coming season...
Via Pro Sports Blogging  |  8 days ago
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P Janssen gets two-year deal from Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays and right-hander Casey Janssen avoided salary arbitration, agreeing to a two-year, $5.9 million deal on Monday. An arbitration hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday. The 30-year-old will earn $2 million this upcoming season and $2.9 million next year. There is also a $4 million team option for 2014. Janssen posted a 6-0 record with a 2.26 ERA and a pair...
Via Pro Sports Daily  |  8 days ago
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Janssen and Blue Jays avoid arbitration

Right-hander Casey Janssen and the Toronto Blue Jays have avoided salary arbitration, agreeing on a $5.9 million, two-year contract. Janssen gets $2 million this year and $2.9 million in 2013. Monday's agreement includes a $4 million team option for 2014. A hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Janssen was 6-0 with a 2.26 ERA and two saves in 55 relief...
Via Fox Sports  |  8 days ago
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Blue Jays Avoid Arbitration With Casey Janssen, Agree To 2-Year Deal

It took a little while longer than expected, but with spring training only days away for the Blue Jays, the team has finally come to terms with reliever Casey Janssen, signing the 30 year old to a two-year deal with a one year option. Janssen actually broke the news of the deal himself via Twitter earlier today; financial terms haven’t been released yet, it will keep the Blue...
Via Rant Sports  |  9 days ago
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The Great Big 2012 Blue Jays Forecast Series, Part 15: Ricky Romero

With spring training officially just under a month away, we continue with a series of projections on what the 2012 Toronto Blue Jays might look like. Each day (don’t hold me to this), I will profile a 2012 Blue Jays starter, closing with a set of numbers based on my (usually positive) expectations. We complete our look at the projected starting rotation today with a few words...
Via Rant Sports  |  13 days ago
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An Early Look a the 2012 Blue Jays Offense - ZIPS Projections

I've heard a lot of people complain this offseason that the Toronto Blue Jays didn't do enough to improve their team for 2012. Of course, these people tend to be those who believe the Jays should have thrown $300M at Pujols, $250M at Fielder, and $100M at Buerhle, but do they have a point that, on the whole, the Jays have stagnated to a detrimental degree? The imrpovements...
Via Sports Blog Net  |  15 days ago
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The Great Big 2012 Blue Jays Forecast Series, Part 13: Kyle Drabek

With spring training officially just under a month away, we continue with a series of projections on what the 2012 Toronto Blue Jays might look like. Each day (don’t hold me to this), I will profile a 2012 Blue Jays starter, closing with a set of numbers based on my (usually positive) expectations. We continue to move along the projected rotation today with a look at former top...
Via Rant Sports  |  15 days ago
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The Toronto Blue Jays Weren’t Thinking About This When They Made Their Logo

The new Blue Jays logo is awesome. Really classy. The old one wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t as good as the new one. After a day walking around New York City on Saturday, I will never see the old Toronto logo in the same eyes ever again. I am very interested in street art, graffiti and how different groups take popular symbols and put a twist on them. I was walking...
Via 213 Miles From Shea  |  16 days ago
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2012 Fantasy Baseball Toronto Blue Jays Starting Rotation Preview

Ricky Romero (credits below) Looks like the Blue Jays are happy with the young starting pitching staff they have assembled as they did virtually nothing this winter in the free agent market to help the staff with the exception of adding a steady closer in Sergio Santos. Ricky Romero is poised to take the next step as the team's ace and he will be followed most likely by Brandon...
Via The Fantasy Fix  |  23 days ago
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