Blue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Five
The Blue Jays prospect hot sheet this week covers games between May 7th and 13th and had the best group of performances we’ve seen since the first week of the year. Nine players had legitimate claims...
View ArticleBlue 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...
View ArticleBlue Jays Prospect Hot Sheet: Week Thirteen
The week spanning July 2nd through July 8th was easily the most impressive of the year, as OPS values above 1.000 were commonplace and even Deck McGuire had a dominant pitching performance. The hot...
View ArticleIf Justin Upton is available, the Blue Jays need to call
Justin Upton is on the trade block… again. During the 2010 offseason, news leaked that Arizona might be willing to part with their franchise cornerstone, and the baseball world tied itself in a knot...
View ArticleIt’s Time for the Blue Jays to “Go Young”
All Jays fans would love to dream, as Jose Bautista has, of the Jays contending for a playoff spot in 2012. It’s definitely still viable, as no single team has pulled away from the pack enough to make...
View ArticleJust Called Up, Adeiny Hechavarria Plays 3B?
There are certain decisions that teams and managers make that make you shake your head some times. It seems to me that for the second time since he’s been a Blue Jays player, Adeiny Hechavarria has...
View ArticleWho’s on first, but What’s on second? Replacing Kelly Johnson
Back in late April, Kelly Johnson was arguably the most productive hitter on the team. He was sitting at 0.8 WAR, and when projected over a full 162 game season, Johnson was on pace for 7.6 WAR. For...
View ArticleAdeiny Hechavarria has Improved, is it Enough?
Adeiny Hechavarria has received some pretty regular playing time at his position of choice as of late. A by-product of necessity and a decent run of play by the Jays rookie shortstop. In September,...
View ArticleProspect Positional Primer: Middle Infield
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...
View ArticleAA Has Re-claimed His Throne
Is it too early to look ahead? The pundits and professionals I have been reading all point to two things: Jeffrey Loria is a word I cannot say in this forum but let’s just say…very very bad man. Very...
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