Yes, Pierre is on pace to committ 88 errors in Lansing this season, shattering the Lansing record of 51 held by former Blue Jay Buck Coats when Lansing was a Cub affiliate and they experimented with Coats at short.

I doubt Pierre will finish the season in Lansing.  My guess is that when Vancouver starts up, he may be transferred there.  A fresh start wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for Gustavo at this point.

Here's the latest on Brett Cecil:  http://bit.ly/lnMBPz

His velocity is reportedly up to 91 mph, but the article also suggests that he is still below his velocity of last year and might need a bit more time to regain the full velocity.

18. Josh Bell, OF, Jesuit College Prep (TX)

Pros: Bell is the best pure hitter among high school players, easily projecting to hit for both average and power, and he adds to his value by doing it from both sides of the plate. He makes consistent hard contact even against top-level competition.

Cons: He's very much a switch-hitting version of Rays 2010 first-round pick Josh Sale in that he's a highly accomplished high school hitter, but the bat might be the only tool; other abilities will limit him to left field.

If you look at the Las Vegas newspaper article, Cecil himself is admitting that his velocity is still below what it should be.  He appears to be saying that he is occasionally hitting 91 on the radar gun, but he needs to be at 91 more consistently, and he needs to top out at 93 mph.  He seems to be saying that he normally pitches about 91 to 93 and he's not consistently there yet.  However, there are some contradictions in his quotes, so I'm not entirely sure of exactly what he is saying, but that's the best I can decipher it.  Here are the relevant quotes:

The 2007 first-round draft pick struggled to keep the ball down in Toronto and his velocity dipped to 87-88 mph. "When you're throwing that speed, it's tough to get outs when you're up in the zone," he said. "Last year, my velocity was 91 to 93 and, for the most part, the ball was down. To have the velocity I had up there (this year), it wasn't good enough to put it by anybody."

Cecil, who allowed three runs on six hits in six innings Monday, with five strikeouts and one walk, topped out at 91 mph on the radar gun at Cashman Field. "My arm strength has definitely improved," said Cecil, who credits a swimming and long-toss regimen. "My last three starts, I've been 88, 89, 92, so it's creeping its way back up."

Since that forgettable outing, the 6-foot-1-inch, 235-pound Cecil has been steady.  "Right now I'm right where I want to be," he said. "The ball's down, my velocity's where it should be, and hopefully it keeps climbing so I can be consistently in the low 90s again."

Lol.

I relish future matchups once Snider begins hitting with more mustard, and better plate coverage.

Lawrie continues to amaze me.  We knew there would be a learning curve in his transition to 3rd base and sure enough, 6 errors in his first 12 games, worriesome enough the Jays sent Mordecai to work with him on his D. Since then, 1 error in 27 games. A short time ago, when asked about lawrie, AA  more or less said he needed better plate discipline, and yeah as of May 10th he'd only had 5 BB's vs 28 K's.  So in the 7 games since then, 8 BB's vs 4 K's.

Today's game seemed to be like a kid yelling "Look at me!".

"I can do fundamentals (sac bunt), i've got power (HR), I'm clutch (RBI single), I've got speed with my power (triple), I can show patience at the plate (walk). What more do you want me to show you before calling me up?"

What more do you want me to show you before calling me up?"

From Brett Lawrie I want 80-100 games played at 3B.   I want his reactions to be correct and become automatic.   This is about make-up more than it's about ability.   It's about the field being hard as a rock and being so hot, it's not fun any more.

This speaks to how fast GM AA has turned around the franchise. A strong draft works wonders, two consecutive strong drafts could sustain a strong run for years. You just have to hope that Tampa cheaps out on some of those picks before the Jays get to their slots.

Supposedly RHP is the strength of the draft, so I wonder if the Jays will go with that as a team strength.

Talking about a wasteland of drafts, how about the Jay's picks from  '79 to '83. All 5 years they picked in the top ten, yet ended up with Jay Schoeder, Garry Harris, Matt Williams (the pitcher, not the slugger), Augie Schmidt and Matt Stark. Too lazy to look it up but combined WAR less than 1 is my guess.  Yet by 1985 the Jays won 99 games.

Well, Jay Schroeder did turn out to be quite a player.

We didn't even get a draft pick from the Redskins as compensation.

Ryan Patterson - there`s a name from the past.

Speaking of names from the past, I heard that the closer for my hometown Goldeyes is one Jamie Vermilyea.  There can`t be more than one, can there?

TamRa, I'm sure you're right about all that.  I suppose it's a definitional issue -- when I used the word "prospect", I didn't really mean it in the sense of "legitimate prospect." 

Year after year, when draft day rolls around, we get excited about almost everyone who is drafted.  Maybe we could use a dose of the skepticism that you expressed.