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Was going to look for prospects from all the A teams but Dunedin had a number of players that could deserve consideration as to get one our list. So we'll look at the other A-ball teams next week.
Eric Thames : An 8 th round draft pick in 2008, he had a great season in Dunedin, ...
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The Jays have added Reider Gonzalez to their 40-man roster which protects him from being picked up in the Rule 5 draft. We talked about Reider yesterday, he's a likely add to our top prospects list. He was 4-6 with a 2.90 ERA in 17 starts at New Hampshire last year.
Robert MacLeod in the ...
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Yesterday the Drunks gave their Guide to Tank Nation . There was a suggestion at the end that kind of interested me.
Invite two or three blogs, each homestand, to cover a game or two, assign a media officer to them, and show them the ropes. Yeah, the old media guys are going to give ...
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by Darren Calabrese - AP
Can you imagine him in any other uniform? Ok, but can you imagine it without tears rolling down your cheeks? (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darren Calabrese, File)
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Mike Scioscia AL Manager of the Year
The vote was similar to our SB Nation vote. The writers had Joe Girardi 3rd and we had Wakamatsu 3rd. The writers didn't have anyone vote for Trey Hillman, so maybe they are smarter after all.
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We took a look at the guys that were on our prospect list last year, to see which ones should move up or down on the list, now let's take a look at guys that weren't on last year's list and maybe could be this year. We'll look at the guys in that were in Triple and Double-A today and look at ...
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There is another Thursday game this week so I'm putting up the pool today. Last week's winner was Aa Goodfellow who got 10 of 15. Congratulations. Craig in Calgary and I did the worst this week getting just 6 right. Oh well, can't win every week Craig.
This week's pool, mail me your ...
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The Jays have 16 Six-Year minor league free agents. Here is the list:
Pitchers: RHP T.J. Beam , LHP Fabio Castro, RHP James Lehman, LHP Chris Michalak, LHP Davis Romero, RHP Sean Smith
Catchers: Adair Betegon, Kyle Phillips
Infielders: Howie Clark , Jesus Gonzalez, Kevin Howard , Angel ...
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Fabio Castro
Chris Michalak
Davis Romero
Howie Clark
Zack Greinke Wins Cy Young
Roy Halladay comes in 5th. Roy actually got more votes than the 3rd and 4th place finishers but Justin Verlander recieved 1 first place vote and CC Sabathia got 2 second place votes while all 11 of Doc's votes were third place votes.
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The nice people at ACTA Sports sent me a copy of the Bill James Handbook . Baseball books are my favorite thing in the world. Free ones are better yet.
The main part of the book is the career register that gives career stats for every batter and pitcher that played ...
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by Reinhold Matay - AP
Looks good fielding this ball. (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)
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Edwin had a good season in 2008, hitting .251/.340/.466 ...
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Oakland's Andrew Bailey Wins Rookie of the Year
No votes for Ricky Romero. I thought he'd get some support.
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The Jays announced their spring training schedule this morning. Pitchers and catchers report February 22nd. Position players on the 25th and the first spring games is March 3rd. If you are planning a trip to Dunedin to watch the Jays their schedule is here . They start the regular season ...
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Brandon Phillips
On our look through our prospect list from last year, in preparation to re-do the list for this year. This time we look at the last ten of 30. Next we'll look at guys that joined the organization this past year and guys that took a step forward to see who could be added to the list.
21. ...
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As a start towards re-doing our prospect list I thought we'd take a look at the guys on our current list and see which ones improved their status with the team and which ones likely dropped back or right off the prospect list. Then we can start looking at who should be on the new list.
This ...
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There are a bunch of Blue Jay stories out there at the moment.
Hardball Times have their Top 10 Blue Jay prospects up. It is almost a whole new list, since Snider, Cecil and Rzep have graduated to the big leagues. It is nice to see a couple of outfielders on the list.
Tao ...
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We have 10 players who are eligible for arbitration this off season. Shawn Marcum, Dustin McGowan , Brandon League , Jose Bautista , Jason Frasor , Jeremy Accardo , Brian Tallet , Shawn Camp , Casey Janssen and Raul Chavez . If you are Alex Anthopoulos , which ones do you offer arbitration to, ...
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Randy Ruiz Named to Tops Triple-A All-Star Team
Ruiz named All-Star first baseman. Congratulations Randy.
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The Silver Slugger awards were given out today and we had two winners. Aaron Hill won for best offensive second baseman and Adam Lind won for best DH. Both are very deserving. Congratulations both of you. The whole list of winners:
POS PLAYER HR RBI AVG
1B
M. ...
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Aaron Hill
Jon Heyman from SI.com writes that the Yankees will 'contact' the Jays about Doc . I can not imagine. I thought I could handle anything. I spent a whole season watching Kevin Millar 'play' first base. I assumed there was nothing that could make me stop watching baseball. But Roy Halladay ...
