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2012 Minor League Players - Third Base
We finish our tour of the infield minor league assignments with a look at third base. This is not a position of strength in the Jays minor league system and you could see the same players in the same spots to start 2012 as played in 2011.
Las Vegas Now that Brett Lawrie has passed through the sin city third base should be occupied by Kevin Howard. When Lawrie was injured last season...
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18 days ago
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2012 Minor League Players - Middle Infield
We started this series by looking at catchers and first basemen, today it's the middle infielders who we review. Because of the interchangability of shortstops and second basemen we will look at them together making it a double position look.
Las VegasThere could be a battle for playing time in AAA. The Jays had an excess of middle infielders, even before they added Omar Vizquel...
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19 days ago
Jays Sign Coco Cordero
BlueJays.com, via Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, says the Jays have signed free-agent reliever Francisco Cordero to a one-year contract worth $4.5 million.36 year-old Francisco Cordero was 5-3 with a 2.45 earned run average and saved 37 games with the Reds in 2011.
The Blue Jays will mark the fifth team Francisco Cordero will pitch for in his major league career, which began...
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20 days ago
Fielder to Tigers for Lots of Money
Tim Brown/Jon Heyman reports that Prince Fielder has signed with the Tigers for $214 million over 9 years. That's just shy of $24 million a year, or about $1.2 million less than Albert Pujols received a year.Fielder will reportedly play first base, while Miguel Cabrera will move (to DH or Left Field, presumably.)
The total dollar amount shouldn't be too surprising...
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20 days ago
More Morrow
The Jays signed Brandon Morrow to a (for all intents and purposes) 3 year, $21 million deal with a club option for $9 million. Will he be worth it?
The short answer? It depends. Per Mike Wilner, Morrow will make $4 mil in 2012, and then $8 million in 2013 and 2014, with the $10 million option/$1 million buyout in 2015. Going into 2012 Morrow had accumulated...
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20 days ago
Jays are #1
John Sickels has done a farm system ranking for the first time - and guess who's top?1) Toronto Blue Jays: Eight B+ prospects with ridiculous depth behind them.2) San Diego Padres: Incredible depth after the winter trades pushes this system almost to the top. 3) Texas Rangers: Continues to churn out talent, with much more percolating at the lower levels. I do not give the Rangers...
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20 days ago
2012 Minor League Players - First Base
Yesterday we looked at the placement of minor league catchers for 2012 and it was relatively straightforward. Today we look at first basemen and the picture is much more muddled.
Las VegasVegas is the first team with a logjam at first base. There is no spot for David Cooper in Toronto and so he is ticketed to return to AAA. Mike McDade played well in AA last season, very well...
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20 days ago
Jays add legendary shortstop
Ken Rosenthal has just tweeted that the Blue Jays have signed potential Hall of Fame shortstop Omar Vizquel. Details and links forthcoming -- if you see them, add them in a comment!
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21 days ago
Jays to lock up Morrow tomorrow?
Shi Davidi tweets that the Jays and Brandon Morrow are set to announce......
......a 3 year, $20MM contract with a $10MM buyout. I would assume there are some team options in there. If true this would leave only Casey Janssen unsigned amont the arbitration eligible players.
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21 days ago
The Boxcast: Episode 1
We're so late to jump on the podcast bandwagon that it isn't even a bandwagon anymore. We're trendsetters!The inaugural episode of the "Boxcast", Batter's Box's official podcast (as opposed to all those imitations running wild out there) features Box scribes Anders Whist, Thomas Ayers and myself talking Jays, ZiPS, and Prince Fielder. More details inside...
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21 days ago
2012 Minor League Players - Catchers
We are in the depths of a baseball-less winter but pitchers and catchers will be reporting to camp in less than 30 days. The minor league camp won't start until March but let's start thinking about the lineups for the 2012 season. There is no hurry so we will do this over the next week or so. Today I will look at the catchers. Infielders, outfielders and starting pitchers...
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21 days ago
KJ Chats With Sportsnet Radio
Blue Jays second baseman Kelly Johnson shared a few thoughts on not only baseball but the NFL playoffs on Sportsnet 590 The Fan Friday afternoon.Kelly Johnson looks like he's lining up to a kick a field goal with Mike McCoy serving as the holder September 11.The audio to the interview is right here. His football-related thoughts...even though he's a big Montana fan and has a signed...
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23 days ago
10 Photos - They Are The Champions Of The World!
Three members who began the season with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011 ended the year with World Series rings. Today's POTD focuses on the lucky trio.
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23 days ago
Non-Roster Invitees to 2012 Spring Training
Blue Jays web site now lists 23 Non-Roster Invitees for 2012 Spring training. The list includes 13 Pitchers and 10 Position players.
Pitchers - Andrew Carpenter, Jesse Chavez, Robert Coello, Nelson Figueroa, Jerry Gil, Jim Hoey, Drew Hutchison, Chad Jenkins, Aaron Laffey, Deck McGuire, Garrett Mock, Scott Richmond, Ryan Tepera.Catchers - Yan Gomes, Brian Jeroloman, A.J. Jimenez...
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24 days ago
Watching In The Winter
For those of us with mlb.tv and a hankering to watch some baseball on a cold winter night Bill James has published his top 100 pitcher duels of last year at Grantland. No. 16 is Ricky Romero against James Shields on April 16 and there are three other Jays games featured including Henderson Alvarez beating Josh Beckett on Sept 5th - my favourite game of last year.
If anyone else...
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24 days ago
He Turns *50* on Nov. 18 ...
Apologies to Yu Darvish and all, but in the day's most fascinating transaction, the Colorado Rockies will sign 49-year-old rehabbing lefty Jamie Moyer to a minor league deal.Forty-nine. Rehabbing. (He missed ALL of 2011.) Sure, he's left-handed and has 267 (267!) big league wins, and I have always been a fan. But really? Jamie Moyer?More than one-third of the players on Colorado...
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26 days ago
Yu just knew they'd get it done ...
Yu Darvish and the Rangers agreed on a six-year, $60 million deal just before today's (Wednesday's) deadline. Story
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26 days ago
Charlie V Signed, Sealed & Delivered
The Toronto Blue Jays have avoided arbitration with Carlos Villaneuva by signing the right-hander to a one-year deal worth just over $2.2 million.
Carlos Villaneuva won six of ten decisions with the Blue Jays in 2011 with a 4.04 earned run average. Over 33 appearancances, 11 of which were starts, he struck out 68 batters over 107 innings.The 28 year-old Villaneuva earned his...
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27 days ago
Fun With Photoshop Filters - Vol. 2 Answers
Here are the answers to last week's challenge.
It was obvious to all Bauxites except Parker ;D but this was Albert Pujols.Here was the one that provided the most difficulty. This is Daniel Descalso beating the tag of Marlins catcher Brett Hayes at home plate. The umpire is Bob "No Triple Play" Davidson.Lyle Overbay gives way to Josh Harrison to run at first base.Jon...
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27 days ago
M's Pineda headed to AL East, Bronx
After the Yankees spent much of last season trying to pry perennial Cy Young contender Felix Hernandez from the Mariners with a package headed by catching uber-prospect Jesus Montero, the M's finally convinced the Bronx Bombers to change the asking price and the two teams have completed a different deal, sending Montero to the AL West in exchange for a different young ace with...
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January 13, 2012
Shaft Confident About 2012 Jays & Rookie Camp Notes
Jays left fielder Eric Thames is part of the team's Winter Tour that is sweeping through Eastern Canada this week to spread the Blue Jays gospel. He had a few interesting things to say during an interview on TSN 1050 in Toronto Thursday afternoon.Eric Thames batted .262./.313/.456 with 12 home runs, 24 doubles, five triples and 37 RBI over 95 games with Toronto in 2011.On Cybulski...
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January 13, 2012
10 Photos - Jays vs Rangers July 31/2011
Today's POTD features the game played on Roberto Alomar Hall of Fame Day at the Dome.
Colby Rasmus takes a first inning pitch that Rangers catcher Taylor Teagarden tries to snare......but it glances off his glove. No one was on base at the time and Rasmus would eventually strike out to go 0-for-13 as a Blue Jays. However, things would get better for the former Cardinal on this...
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January 12, 2012
Boras Seeing Red After Madson Becomes A Red
Even though Ryan Madson has found gainful employment for 2012, agent Scott Boras is taking issue with the Philadelphia Phillies after the free-agent closer signed a one-year deal with Cincinnati for $8.5 million. Boras claims the Phillies backed out of a four-year, $44 million deal with his client before signing Jonathan Papelbon away from the Boston Red Sox. Phillies GM...
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January 11, 2012
10 Photos - Jays Vs Phillies July 1/2011
The Blue Jays wore red and were left seeing red in the end on Canada Day.Jose Bautista slugs a one-out double to left-center field off Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick in the first inning. Bautista would also score Hill by cranking his 25th homer of the season to left field in the seventh.Pinch-runner Aaron Hill, who came into the game after Yunel Escobar was hit in the hand by a...
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January 10, 2012
Blue Jays Drop Canadian Third Baseman!
No, it's not Brett Lawrie. To make room for Darren Oliver the Blue Jays have designated Mark Teahen for assignment. The Blue Jays will trade or release Teahen after the prescribed waiting period, which is ten days I think.Teahen's status change is not a surprise, there is no spot for him on the 2012 squad. I assume AA has been trying to deal him with no success. The Jays...
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January 09, 2012
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