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The History of Our Home Openers: 2011

Welcome to the year of evaluation. In 2010, Alex Anthopoulos spent his first season as GM tweaking the roster, making trades, doing waiver wire claims, loading his farm system with talent through the…Read More

Brett Cecil Solid in Triple-A Start

LAS VEGAS – Brett Cecil hurled a quality start and his teammates supplied more than enough offense as the Las Vegas 51s defeated the Tucson Padres 9-3 at Cashman Field on Tuesday night. Making his first…Read More

Side Effects: How the McGowan Extension affects Brett Cecil

As the majority of you who are Blue Jays fans know by now, Dustin McGowan signed an extension with the Blue Jays earlier this week. There was a collective head-scratch from armchair analysts across the…Read More

Blue Jays 1st in Grapefruit League (9-2)

  Spring training records and stats mean absolutely nothing. Prospects and fringe guys get plenty of AB’s and IP’s, players work on pitches and mechanics. After all, nothing counts till…Read More

Jays sign LHP Aaron Laffey

Let the dumpster diving begin! The Blue Jays signed “soft-tossing-lefty” Aaron Laffey to a split contract yesterday. Laffey, 26, was non-tendered by the Royals earlier this month. Read | Share

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Trading for Matt Garza Doesn’t Make Sense for the Blue Jays

With the Chicago Cubs primed to rebuild their franchise under new president Theo Epstein, they face a…Read More

Bill James’ projections: Jays starting rotation

Here are the Bill James Handbook Projections for the Jays starting pitchers: Read | Share

Starting Pitching “Flyers” the Jays Should Consider

In 2011, we saw the Yankees take flyers on two back end of the rotation, veteran starting pitchers, and…Read More

Blue Jays Season Review Part 2: Pitching Rankings

Overall, the Blue Jays pitching was awful in 2011. The bullpen was a disaster, several starters took…Read More

Jays Journal Series Preview: April 22-24 vs. Tampa Bay Rays

After splitting a two-game series with the Yankees – where the Jays rallied back in a team effort…Read More

Jays Journal Series Preview: April 19-20 vs. New York Yankees

After a brutal four game series against the Red Sox that saw them win the first game but score just one…Read More

Jays Journal Series Preview: April 15-18 vs. Boston Red Sox

After the Jays unfortunately dropped 2 of 3 to the Mariners, they’re definitely looking forward…Read More

Jays Journal Series Preview: April 8-10 vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

After coming off a pair of series wins where they missed out on the sweep in both circumstances by just…Read More

Jays Journal Series Preview: April 1-3 vs. Minnesota Twins

The start of the 2011 season is finally here, and what better way to start it than at home against the…Read More

Top 50 Jays Prospects, Jays Journal Edition: #6 J.P. Arencibia

The next player on our list is one of my personal favorites, and yet another catcher that the Jays will…Read More

Jays Leadership Still Present Without Vernon Wells and Shaun Marcum

Let’s face it, the Blue Jays and Alex Anthopoulos have dealt or let go the majority of what people…Read More

Is Toronto a Viable Option for Albert Pujols?

As I hear about how the talks are souring between the St-Louis Cardinals and Albert Pujols, I sit here,…Read More

Relentless, Alex Anthopoulos Trades Mike Napoli for Frank Francisco and Cash

We’ve barely had a chance to digest the Vernon Wells  trade to the Angels and one of the major…Read More

Zack Greinke Demands Trade, KC Will Grant His Wish

Royals fans have to be in disbelief that they will once again watch an established superstar leave their…Read More

Jays Tweets: JP Arencibia, Brett Cecil, Ricky Romero and others

I thought it would be interesting to follow some of the Jays player Tweets. I’m not saying this…Read More