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Ricky Romero walks six in latest minor league misfire
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Ricky Romero is getting closer, to a demotion back to High-A ball. Romero failed to win the fifth spot in the Blue Jays rotation this spring just two years after being a 15-game winner.
Romero lasted only 3 2/3 innings in a start for Triple-A Buffalo on Thursday. In the outing he walked six and allowed four hits before being removed from the game. Last week Romero...
Hamate Break Halts Jorge Bonifacio’s Breakout Season
If you knew Emilio Bonifacio‘s younger brother was an outfield prospect in the Kansas City Royals’ farm system, you might assume the two are roughly similar. But Emilio — a speedy, switch-hitting, utility man for the Toronto Blue Jays — and Jorge have little in common, at least when it comes to their games. Jorge, the younger of the pair, is a burly right fielder with a...
Blue Jays SS Munenori Kawasaki gets busy during pre-game (GIFs)
Don’t mind Muneori Kawasaki. He’s just preparing for a baseball game the way that any Major League player prepares. Right?
1. The smoothest mechanical bull ride ever. Solid form.
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2. He’s still working on his Vanna White. It needs serious work.
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3. Like the annoying little twerp in the AT&T commercial: “I can stand on my head and...
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Jays infielder amazed by Sandoval's tats
This moment of childlike wonder took place during batting practice prior to the Giants-Blue Jays game at Rogers Centre this past Wednesday night. Toronto shortstop Munenori Kawasaki has a look of sheer amazement on his face as he gawks at Pablo Sandoval’s massive arm and tattoo work, which seems strange since Kawasaki hails from Japan, aka The Land of the Rising Tentacle Porn....
Toronto Blue Jays Lay A World Series Beating On San Francisco Giants
Don’t look now but the Toronto Blue Jays have won 4 games in a row, including a dominate 2 game mini-series sweep against the World Champion San Francisco Giants. The Blue Jays outscored the Giants 21 to 9 banging out 29 hits in the two games played at the Rogers Centre .
Former Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera received his World Series ring from Giants Manager Bruce Bochy, a...
Melky Cabrera playing through pain, MRI shows 'irritation'
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera underwent an MRI on Wednesday, apparently after dealing with soreness in his hamstring since the start of the season. Sportsnet's Shi Davidi tweeted the results of the MRI on Tuesday evening, saying that Cabrera had problems in both his quad and hamstring:
MRIs on Melky Cabrera show irritation in right quad and left hamstring...
Brandon Belt Finally Belting It
In the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Giants first baseman Brandon Belt stepped to the plate with his team down 6-1. Squaring off against reigning National League Cy Young Award winner and knuckleball extraordinaire R.A. Dickey, Belt looked to spark his team to a rally from its early deficit. He certainly did his part. On a 2-2 pitch, Belt smacked...
Blue Jays' Sergio Santos to have elbow surgery
Blue Jays right-hander Sergio Santos will have surgery this week to remove bone spurs from his pitching elbow and is expected to be sidelined about six weeks.
Santos was placed on the 15-day disabled list April 14 with soreness in his triceps. He had been close to starting a minor league rehabilitation assignment but experienced a drop in velocity while pitching in an extended spring...
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R.A. Dickey’s Lost Velocity
Knuckleballers aren’t like other pitchers, or so the saying goes. Their pitches flutter like butterflies, they pitch at less than max effort, they don’t depend on velocity, and they can pitch into their fifties. All of these things seem true, and yet the more we know about knuckleballers the more they might actually be more like all the other pitchers out there. So when 38-year...
Toronto Blue Jays Farm Report: May
With a day off for the Toronto Blue Jays Monday night, I take a look at what’s been going on down on the farm. With the off-season acquisitions between the Miami Marlins and New York Mets, Blue Jays General Manager Alex Anthopoulos dealt away some of the game’s top prospects including number one catching prospect Travis d’Arnaud and right-handed pitching stud Noah Syndergaard...
Bautista HRs twice, leads Blue Jays over RSox 12-4
Jose Bautista looks comfortable in the No. 2 slot in the Toronto Blue Jays' batting order.
Bautista hit two of Toronto's five home runs, and the Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 12-4 Sunday to take two of three in the weekend series.
''You get three or four runs ahead,'' Bautista said, ''that's when some guys come out and are able to take some...
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It’s time for MLB to protect its pitchers
It has become increasingly clear that Major League Baseball must protect its pitchers. On May 7, 2013, when Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was struck in the base of the skull by a ferocious line drive that rocketed off of the bat of Tampa Bay outfielder Desmond Jennings, we were given a reminder about one of the genuinely dangerous aspects of playing baseball. Happ had essentially...
Romero’s Bisons Debut A Regrettable One
Romero didn’t look like a pitcher that deserved to be in the big leagues Saturday, allowing 6 runs in 3.2 innings in his Bisons debut.
After getting sent down to Buffalo on Thursday, Blue Jays officials had to believe spending some time in Triple-A would help Ricky Romero gain his confidence back.
But if Romero’s Bisons debut is a sign of things to come, Toronto’s management...
J.A. Happ leaves game on stretcher after being struck by line drive (Video)
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ had to leave Tuesday night's game against the Tampa Bay Rays on a stretcher after being struck in the side of the head by a line drive by Rays batter Desmond Jennings in the second inning.
Happ was taken to the hospital and is reportedly in stable condition while undergoing some tests. We wish Happ a speedy recovery.
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J.A. Happ hit in head by line drive
In Tuesday night's Blue Jays-Rays game, Toronto starting pitcher JA Happ was hit in the side of the head by a line drive off the bat of Rays outfielder Desmond Jennings. Happ was taken off the field on a stretcher with his head immobilized, and he offered the crowd a wave of his hand as he left the field. Video of the incident is below the jump, but I must warn you that it...
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