torontosun.com - 10/19/2009
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Whither goest free agents Marco Scutaro and Rod Barajas?
bluejays.gearupforsports.com - 10/21/2009
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bluejays.gearupforsports.com —
The Toronto Blue Jays have already had a
busy offseason with the revamping of several front office...
positions by new general manager Alex Anthopoulos. However, from a physical Blue Jays roster standpoint nothing has occurred as of yet. Anthopoulos has let Toronto fans, as well as ...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Shortstop Edition
torontosun.com - 10/17/2009
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torontosun.com —
Alex Anthopoulos' coming out party wasn't in prime
time. The new Blue Jays general manager addressed the...
Jays development people at the Bobby Mattick facility in Dunedin, Fla., last Thursday at 7:30 a.m. "My life with the Jays flashed before me," ...
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Jays GM wants return to basics
mopupduty.com - 10/20/2009
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mopupduty.com —
Bob Elliot’s most recent column featured a few
quotes from new GM Alex Anthopoulos regarding Scutaro and...
Barajas. “We like both players,” “We’d like to bring them both back.” Can the Jays afford to bring ...
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Jays to re-sign Marco Scutaro?
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Blue Jays Hope To Re-Sign Scutaro, Barajas
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... The Blue Jays would like to re-sign shortstop Marco Scutaro and catcher Rod Barajas, GM Alex Anthopoulos told Bob Elliott of the Toronto Sun. Anthopoulos also said he will not learn his budget until later this month. ...
Blue Jay Catch-All
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine —
Things are quiet in Blue Jay land. Alex Anthopoulos continues to work on his plans for league domination. There have been a few news items recently with AA saying the Jays would like to bring back Marco Scutaro and Rod Barajas and last week AA was on the road inspiring the troops.
Bob Elliott has todays story where AA says: "We like both players," said Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos. "We'd like to bring them both back." Can the Jays afford to bring them both back? Antopoulous won't know his team budget until ...
GM: Toronto open to re-signing Scutaro, Barajas
Circling The Bases —
... catcher Rod Barajas wouldn't be back in Toronto next season, but new general manager Alex Anthopoulos said yesterday that he's interested in re-signing both Barajas and fellow free agent Marco Scutaro. Blue Jays fans are free to interpret that as a sign Gaston himself might not be back in 2010, but it's worth noting that along with saying "we like both players" and "we'd like to bring them both back" Anthopoulos added "but we can't make a bad deal." In other words, there's a big difference between being open to re-signing a player and being open to re-signing a player at ...
Toronto wants to keep Barajas...
Mets Fever —
... "Like I said, we like both players and they are both important positions, but we can't make a bad deal," the rookie GM said from Toronto. source Toronto Sun ...
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This is News?
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2010 Free Agents: Shortstops
advancedfantasybaseball.com 10/22/2009 — You won't load up on offense by signing any of these guys but a few of them had interesting seasons. Marco Scutaro had a second good season as a regular and deserves a couple of years from the Toronto Blue Jays. Adam Everett was less Everett-y than usual. I am really curious to see where Bobby ...
Note to Alex Anthopoulos: The Dan O'Dowd Model
jorgesaysno.blogspot.com 10/26/2009 — As new Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos begins his first offseason with the Blue Jays as GM, there are plenty of questions surfacing about the direction of the team. -What will the Blue Jays do with Roy Halladay ? -Are the Blue Jays going to rebuild? ...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Catcher Edition
feedproxy.google.com 10/28/2009 —
In my last Toronto Blue Jays “Should I stay or Should I Go?” article I focused on the Blue Jays shortstop situation for next season, which involves two free agents named Marco Scutaro (Toronto’s starter in 2009) and John McDonald (backup shortstop and fan favorite).
Today I would like ...
Major League Philosophy
battersbox.ca 10/27/2009 — Alex Anthopoulos's first order of duty is to come up with a philosophy for the team. What is a team philosophy you ask? Beeston and Anthopoulos stated in their first Saturday press conference that the organization first needs to define a ...
Now and Zen
ghostrunneronfirst.com 10/14/2009 — Obviously there is plenty going on in the baseball world and zero going on in Blue Jays world. Zero outside of, as the Tao smartly points out, AA doing the identical thing to J.P. (firing/shaking up scouts) without a peep emanating from the local slam ...
Baseball Salaries 2009: Blue Jays crash and burn
list.canadianbusiness.com 10/17/2009 — Toronto is a hockey make that a Maple Leaf town. That may be a weird way of wrapping up yet another disappointing Blue Jays season , but general manager J.P. Ricciardi would have been run out of town long ago if he was in a baseball-mad city. As it ...
Where were you 16 years ago?
bluejayhunter.com 10/24/2009 — Today is a very special day - it's an occasion so momentous that it should almost be declared a national holiday in Canada. It was this very day 16 years ago that Joe Carter solidified himself as one of the greatest Blue Jays of all time by taking a Mitch Williams pitch deep to ensure the ...
2010 Free Agents: Catchers
advancedfantasybaseball.com 10/19/2009 — Seattle Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima has chosen to opt out of his contract with the Mariners and become a free agent. His name is thus added to the below list of potential 2010 Free Agents. The list is short and frankly Johjima is now probably the best name on the list. I assume that Johjima ...
Yankees take advantage of Angels' errors —
NY Post: Sports 10/19/2009
ANAHEIM -- Their arms and fingers have looked like they are borrowed from Edward Scissorhands. Their bats have produced all the oomph of a wet newspaper. And their closer was exposed as unreliable the first time they needed him.
Welcome to the lif...
Weaver ready to put Angels back in ALCS —
NY Post: Sports 10/19/2009
ANAHEIM -- Here is a guy who can definitely use a raise.
Jered Weaver wasn't the best pitcher in baseball this season, just among the best values. The Angels got 16 victories from the 27-year-old right-hander and paid him $465,000. Only the Rang...
