New Hampshire news - Kevin Gray's On Baseball: J.P. sounds off on the state of the Jays - Sunday, Jul. 20, 2008

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Stop! Homer Time!
Published 7/21/2008 by #2JBrumfield at Batter's Box Interactive Magazine
New Hampshire, Dunedin and Lansing combined to belt 10 homers yesterday, half of them by the Fisher Cats, to propel them to victory.  As for Syracuse, they dropped their fifth in a row to fall to .500.  At least the Argos are back to .500 thanks to a 109-yard drive for the winning touchdown.  Way to go, K-Jo.  That concludes my football commentary! Durham 4 Syracuse 0 Syracuse, NY - Lefty Bill Murphy traded zeroes with Bulls starter Wade Davis in his first Triple A start for the first five innings.  Murphy survived five baserunners in the first two frames, including a bases-loaded jam ...

J.P’s plans for the future
Published 7/22/2008 by halejon at The Mockingbird
Oh no! The Blue Jays aren’t a whole lot better since the purge of the coaching staff! Quick! Throw some more bodies from the glory days onto the fire… The Sun tells us that Mel Queen, former pitching instructor (heavily involved with Hentgen and Halladay) and director of player development, has been hired to do some sort of vague evaluation (even Eliott’s “source” says “I’m ...

Two for Tuesday
Published 7/22/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Stoeten) at Drunk Jays Fans
We sometimes like to joke about Batter's Box, and steal their pictures, and we probably don't link to them nearly as much as we should-- but today I can't possibly ignore the amazing work they've done, putting together a positional analysis of how teams in the majors have either improved or regressed from last year to this. Some Jays-related highlights: The biggest jump in production among NL third basemen (143.8%) belongs to the St. Louis Cardinals. Uh-oh. Though it's true that the Greatest Blue Jay Ever had a rough year last year, that's... well. . . that's not good. It should be noted, though, that Rolen is actually producing 90.3% of what Glaus and whichever shitbags filled in for him last year did. So... it's ...