Jays Journal » Ivan Contreras http://jaysjournal.com A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:27:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Another Take on the Blue Jays’ 2010 Rule 5 Draft http://jaysjournal.com/2010/12/10/another-take-on-the-blue-jays-2010-rule-5-draft/ http://jaysjournal.com/2010/12/10/another-take-on-the-blue-jays-2010-rule-5-draft/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:26:48 +0000 Jared Macdonald http://jaysjournal.com/?p=2771 With so many quality choices available in this year’s deep Rule 5 Draft, it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Blue Jays were easily going to find one player to take in the Major League portion of the draft. Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos, however, had other ideas. On a day where, with their 10th [...]

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]]> With so many quality choices available in this year’s deep Rule 5 Draft, it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Blue Jays were easily going to find one player to take in the Major League portion of the draft.

Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos, however, had other ideas.

On a day where, with their 10th overall selection in the draft, former Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi and the New York Mets plucked infielder Brad Emaus away from the Jays, Anthopoulos decided against selecting a player in the Major League round of the draft entirely.

In Gregor Chisholm’s article regarding the Rule 5 Draft on the Blue Jays team site yesterday, he mentioned Anthopoulos’ explanation: (more…)

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