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Blue Jays Season: Far From Over, But If It Was…

With the Toronto Blue Jays in the midst of a season long four game winning streak, it sounds negative to talk about a topic like this.  You can thank Jon Heyman for drawing my ire. What should Alex Anthopoulos…Read More

Series Preview: Seattle Mariners (13-17) @ Toronto Blue Jays (10-19)

For a pitcher who dominates more and more as the years go on, future hall-of-famer (in my humble opinion) Felix Hernandez is the type of pitcher lacking in Toronto since Roy Halladay left. 1.90 ERA…Read More

It’s Amazing How Taken For Granted Janssen Is

Casey Janssen has been the Toronto Blue Jays closer for almost a year now. In that time he’s saved almost every game he’s closed. Not only has he been saving games but he seems to do it with easy 1-2-3…Read More

Toronto Blue Jays: The Week That Was April 15-21

We Toronto Blue Jays fans tend to be a fickle group, hit a homerun one day you’re a hero, commit an error or strike out in a key situation and you’re forever shamed and should be DFA’d immediately.…Read More

Half Truths and the Toronto Blue Jays

Over the past few years, Blue Jays fans have become far too accustomed to seeing their players hit the disabled list on a regular basis, and despite the frequency of these occurrences, it still feels like…Read More

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Casey Janssen Closes One Hole For Jays

Whether via poor performance or health issues, inadequacies have a tendency to be front and center when…Read More

Casey Janssen Gets Two-Year Deal From Blue Jays

Though Casey Janssen was very close to going  to arbitration with the Blue Jays, the two sides were…Read More

Francisco Cordero’s Arrival Affects Casey Janssen

Brandon Morrow and Casey Janssen were the two players that failed to agree with the Blue Jays on a 2012…Read More

Casey Janssen’s 2011 campaign one to remember

Last offseason, the Jays signed Octavio Dotel, Jon Rauch, and Jason Frasor to free agent contracts, while…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

Casey Janssen: Jays Best Reliever in 2011

Casey Janssen has been the Jays best relief pitcher this season, and the competition really isn’t…Read More

Jays Notes, 16-June-11: Stewart Shines, Assignments, and More

Here are some of the prominent, and not so prominent, notes of things happening within the Jays franchise…Read More

Jays Win Despite Lack of Output From Key Players, New Strategy Working

The Jays are not by any means beating up on the AL as they currently sit at .500, but to have achieved…Read More

Jays Minors Kick-Off 2011 and Other Minors Notes

Finally, we get to see some game action from the most recent class of draft picks and best prospects…Read More

Game Recap, 3 Apr: Jays Lose Close One

If you attended this game or watched it on TV, you got your money’s/time’s worth and were…Read More

2011 Blue Jays: Bullpen

For all of the experience that the Jays rotation lacks, the bullpen has it in spades. This includes four…Read More

Jays Spring Training Stats and Oddities

As we wind down to the final few games of spring training and finally head towards the beginning of the…Read More

Jays Journal: Leonys Martin, Richard Thon, Spring Notes, and Links

I recently broke down the argument for the Jays to sign Leonys Martin out of Cuba (actually, he is currently…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

Jays Avoid Arbitration With 7 Players

The Blue Jays entered the month with the most arbitration-eligible players in the Majors with nine, and…Read More