For the most part, MLB teams are entering Spring Training with their third base position set. There are a few battles going on; Buscher versus Harris in Minnesota, Blum vesus Boone in Houston (yuck) and McPherson versus Helms in Florida. When those teams make decisions regarding the hot corner, I...

Elect Scott Rolen for the 2009 Leadoff Role Now and in the Recent Past Looking back at a variety of 2007/2008 off-season news and blog articles, it appeared that the Jays finally got what they needed, a “prototypical” leadoff man with speed in David Eckstein. We’ve seen how that wo...

The latest manager to get strapped to the chair—Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. And guess who’s coming home to succeed him, at least for the rest of the season: namely, the man who managed the Jays to the only two World Series rings in their history, Cito Gaston. Who hasn’t...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 10 1 CLEVELAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 W: B.J. Ryan (1-0) L: Rafael Betancourt (1-2) S: Scott Downs (4) Cliff Lee was out-dueled by Shaun Marcum, who overcame an unassisted triple-play by Asdrubal Cabrera to defeat the Cleveland Indians 3-0 ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 CLEVELAND 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 X 3 5 0 W: Fausto Carmona (4-1) L: A.J. Burnett (3-4) HR: CLE: Asdrubal Cabrera (1) Fausto Carmona threw a five-hit shut-out as the Cleveland Indians defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 on Monday afternoon in Cleveland....

Apparently, Matt Garza has had this Radial Nerve inflammation before. The good news is that he has always been able to bounce back from it without missing a start. The bad news? It keeps reoccurring. Other bad news? This time, it is the worst it has been, and will cause him to miss probably anywhere...

From reader Eli, and the Toronto Globe and Mail, comes a quotation from the Blue Jays/Scott Rolen Press Conference: "I believe that I am as strong and I know I feel as good and as strong as I've been in the last three years, by far," he said. "I need to play baseball and be a dirt bag." That is the ...

Here are today's random rumor tidbits. The Rox are interested in Marcus Giles for their second base opening.  Giles was awful last year, they should just try something internal.  Other Rockies notes: contracts with Kip Wells and Luis Vizcaino aren't quite finalized, and they may ink Victor...