taoofstieb.blogspot.com - 11/4/2009
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Discounting the waiver claim of capital-P Project Sean Henn - who might have been worth keeping an eye on under the eye of now departed reclamation king Brad Arnsberg - the Jays began the inevitable (and necessary) roster makeover by claiming middle infielder Jarrett Hoffpauir from the ...
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? ...
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 ...
Vernon Wells To Have Wrist Surgery
duelingcouches.blogspot.com 11/4/2009 — "The buzz over the weekend had the Toronto Blue Jays trying to ship Vernon Wells and his huge contract to the Chicago Cubs for Milton Bradley in what would amount to an exchange of each other's problems. Cubs officials dismissed that trade talk, but there is more news on Wells. The Toronto ...
Two Non-World Series Stories
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 11/4/2009 — While the baseball world waits for tonight's Game 6 between the Yankees and the Phillies, other teams are not standing around doing nothing. The Rays made a trade with the Pirates and a Blue Jay had a surgery that will hopefully help him start earning his pay.The Tampa Bay Rays seem to be run by ...
Blogger Nine Innings: The Tao of Stieb
nydailynews.com 10/26/2009 — What does Donal Logue have to do with baseball? Just a little wordplay off one of his movies is all.
I like to run the interviews in the Blogger Nine Innings series with the name of the blogger, but the public persona of The Tao of Stieb , a ...
Jays Put Henn On Rooster, DFA Barrett
battersbox.ca 10/30/2009 — As Bauxite 92-93 and our John Northey pointed out in a previous thread, the Jays have claimed left-hander Sean Henn off waivers from Baltimore . To make room, the Jays have designated catcher Michael Barrett for assignment.
Henn began the ...
Alex Anthopoulos Lays Out His Vision
battersbox.ca 28 days ago — Alex Anthopoulos has completed his due diligence with the players, coaches, other GM and agents and he held a conference call today to answer questions about his plans. The conference call can be heard here . The call is 35 minutes long.
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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 ...
That's it? That's your theory?
taoofstieb.blogspot.com 27 days ago — So at some point in his Declaration of Principles call over the weekend, Alex Anthopoulos noted that he wanted to build (NOT re-build, goddamnit!) the Jays with trades, the draft, free agents, international signings, and minor league free agents. That's Alex the Ant's plan. Beautifully fucking ...
Signing Most-Valuable Players
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You shoulda come to the first party—we didn't get home 'til around four in the morning. I was blind for three days...
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A.J. will pitch in if needed —
NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 11/4/2009
A.J. Burnett plans to be available out of the bullpen for the final two games of the Series, having thrown only 53 pitches on Monday night. Burnett has made four career relief appearances, the last coming in 2008 with the Blue Jays.
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