espn.go.com - 10/22/2009
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Welcome to SportsNation! On Thursday, MLB Insider Keith Law will be here to take your questions on anything baseball related.
Law is the senior baseball analyst for Scouts Inc. Before joining ESPN, Law served as special assistant to the general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays and was a ...
bases.nbcsports.com - 10/23/2009
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bases.nbcsports.com —
I'm sure dozens of unconsummated trade proposals happen
ever year that, if followed up on a few...
years later, would make people utterly sick. MVP candidates who could have been had for a song when they were kids, prospect-for-prospect deals...
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The Blue Jays could have had David Wright
list.canadianbusiness.com - 10/17/2009
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list.canadianbusiness.com —
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 ...
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Baseball Salaries 2009: Blue Jays crash and burn
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
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Drunk Jays Fans —
... Time to Lay Down the Law, with the Jays-related tidbits from Keith Law’s latest chat at ESPN. And… yeah… ugh. It gets a little better at the end, at least… ...
Update on the injury to the Braves' Jason Heyward
Sports Page Atlanta —
... has not played in an Arizona Fall League game since Saturday. From Keith Law's chat wrap here is what he said about the injury: ...
OK, One More Item on Steve Phillips’ Talent Evaluation Skills
The Slanch Report —
... witty, snarky and an excellent judge of talent (even if he doesn’t like Anna’s Tacqueria); I trust his eye. During his time as a special assistant to JP Ricciardi in Toronto he witnessed any number of interesting and bizarre choices by his GM, including passing on Troy Tulowitzki in favor of Ricky Romero. Sure, Romero has come on recently and looks to be a good pitcher, but Tulo is a 30 HR Gold Glove shortstop and those simply don’t grow on trees.
Anyhoo, in his chat yesterday on ESPN, Keith Law dropped this little nugget that absolutely ...
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