Jays Journal » Los Angeles Angels http://jaysjournal.com A Toronto Blue Jays Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Mon, 20 May 2013 00:22:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Today in Jays History: Alfredo Griffin http://jaysjournal.com/2011/01/08/today-in-jays-history-alfredo-griffin/ http://jaysjournal.com/2011/01/08/today-in-jays-history-alfredo-griffin/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:33:57 +0000 Jared Macdonald http://jaysjournal.com/?p=4019 After playing for the Blue Jays from 1979 to 1984, Alfredo Griffin returned to the team for the 1992 World Series Championship season, with lackluster results. Nevertheless, the Blue Jays decided to re-sign Griffin to a one-year contract, 18 years ago today on January 8th, 1993. Acquired by the Jays from the Cleveland Indians in [...]

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]]> After playing for the Blue Jays from 1979 to 1984, Alfredo Griffin returned to the team for the 1992 World Series Championship season, with lackluster results. Nevertheless, the Blue Jays decided to re-sign Griffin to a one-year contract, 18 years ago today on January 8th, 1993.

Acquired by the Jays from the Cleveland Indians in a three player trade after the 1978 season, Griffin went on to win the 1979 Rookie of the Year award in what was the best season of his career.

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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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