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Right Now Huge Underpay

According to many Toronto Blue Jays fans the Blue Jays have committed the ultimate sin. They’ve overpayed in prospects to get R.A. Dickey. After all what’s the point of having prospects if you’re…Read More

The Beauty Of Catching Depth

As of right now the Toronto Bluejays have three catchers that they plan to have on the big league roster: J.P. Arencibia, backup catcher Jeff Mathis and their top prospect Travis D’arnaud. A lot of things…Read More

Prospect Positional Primer: Catcher

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

The Jeff Mathis Extension and its Impact on the Future

Once you pick your jaw up off the floor and finish scratching your head in a puzzled fashion, the Jeff Mathis extension does, sort of, make a lot of sense. If you somehow hadn’t heard, the Blue Jays…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Ten

We’re entering a transitional period in the minor league season. The Florida State League All Star game was this past weekend, so Dunedin players received only three games this week, making it impossible…Read More

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Brett Cecil Solid in Triple-A Start

LAS VEGAS – Brett Cecil hurled a quality start and his teammates supplied more than enough offense…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Nine

After a dominant stretch towards the end of May, the Toronto’s minor league system cooled off substantially…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Eight

The Las Vegas 51s went 5-2 this week, so it should come as a surprise to no one they had five of the…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Seven

The seventh edition of the Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet is in the books, and after last week’s pitching…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Six

Pitching reigns supreme in the sixth edition of the Blue Jays prospect hot sheet, as four of the top…Read More

Yan Gomes Makes MLB debut tonight at Third Base

Being open to playing third base for the Las Vegas 51s this season made 24-year-old Yan Gomes, a catcher…Read More

Rosenthal: Travis d’Arnaud Draws Rave Review

Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports published his latest column on Tuesday afternoon, and nestled at the very…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Four

Now into the fourth week of the Blue Jays prospect hot sheet here at Jays Journal, some early season…Read More

Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Three

The third edition of the Jays Journal Blue Jays prospect hot sheet is very hitter heavy as, thankfully,…Read More

Toronto Blue Jays Top Tools: Power

The power tool has become somewhat of a lost art in the modern era of baseball. The slow, three true…Read More

The Blue Jays’ Catching Conundrum: J.P. Arencibia & Travis d’Arnaud

There are some problems in baseball that are nice to have. Too much pitching, for example (keep ‘em…Read More

Blue Jays cut top prospects in latest roster trimming

The Blue Jays now have 41 players remaining in camp after five players were returned to minor league…Read More

7 Jays in Fangraphs Top 100 Prospects List

Marc Hulet of fangraphs posted his top 100 prospects list for 2012 today. To no ones surprise, the…Read More

Impressions from Blue Jays Spring Training – Game 6

BRADENTON, Fla. — Travis Snider, Luis Valbuena and Yan Gomes all homered as the Blue Jays slugged…Read More

John Sickels “All (Blue Jay) Questions Answered”

John Sickels of minor league ball held another “all questions answered,” and I’ve taken…Read More