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2013 Top Prospects #28: Griffin Murphy

After back-to-back hitters lead of the Jays Journal Top 30 prospects series, we get our first pitcher here at number 28, a lefty whose career has gotten off to a slower start than most anticipated when…Read More

Prospect Positional Primer: Left Handed Pitcher

Late last fall, with inspiration from Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus, I began writing a series of articles which I titled “Positional Primers”. I broke down the Blue Jays system into seven categories;…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Seventeen

Finally back on the regular seven day timeframe for the hot sheet, the performances improved substantially this week. The lower levels of the minor leagues have continued to carry the system, as the Triple-A…Read More

Talking prospects with Tony LaCava, Blue Jays VP of Baseball Operations

Upon arriving at Cooley Law School Stadium on Monday, May 7 for the first game of my second trip to Lansing, Mich. to see the Lugnuts, I was surprised to discover multiple members of the Blue Jays’…Read More

Jays Journal Top 50 Blue Jays Prospects: No. 29 Griffin Murphy

Marking the return of the top 50 prospects list is one of the best high school lefties from the 2010 draft, No. 29 Griffin Murphy: No. 29: Griffin Robert Murphy Starting pitcher / 21 years old / 6′3″…Read More

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Season in Review: Gulf Coast League Blue Jays – Starting Pitchers

The Gulf Coast League Blue Jays had a ton of promising pitching prospects suit up for them in 2011, and…Read More

Top 50 Jays Prospects, Jays Journal Edition: #19 Griffin Murphy

This guy may very well have the best Left Handed arm in the system….actually, if he’s not,…Read More

The Jays Sign All 13 Picks From Top 7 rounds

While Shaun Marcum was playing the “anything you can do I can do better” game with Brandon…Read More

20 Starting Pitching Reasons For a Decade of Jays Success

Finally, everyone is taking notice of the potent Jays rotation that features young, controllable, cheap,…Read More