When you walk through the garden, you gotta watch your back.

The signing deadline for Rule Four draftees is today at 5pm EST.

The affiliates were 4-1 tonight. While rain thwarted a Drew Hutchison and Kyle Drabek tandem pitching performance down in Dunedin, it stayed away from Buffalo, New Hampshire, Vancouver, Lansing, and our DSL affiliate. Only Lansing wished it too had swamped them out. Brett Lawrie played second and struck out four times. Gabe Jacobo marked his first game this season up with New Hampshire with a homerun and a double. Some solid starting pitching across the board, but as has become common in these parts—the lack of prospects has meant a lack of big time performances and tonight was one of those nights.

The farm was 4-1 today, with two rain outs.  The GCL Bluejays lost despite having 7 triples.  Vancouver won a game in the bottom of the ninth inning.  Avendano had his best start of the year for Lansing.  Austin Bibens-Dirkx was fantastic versus Tampa and the rehabbing Alex-Rodriguez.  Mauro Gomez hit his 25th HR helping Buffalo to the win over their neighbours Syracuse.

There's a red moon rising on the Cuyahoga River.

The storm is comin' through and it's runnin' right up on you.

A 2-3 night on the farm but some signs of encouragement came in Central New York Tuesday night. New Hampshire, Lansing and Vancouver were off. No score from the DSL as of press time.

All this energy callin' me, back where it comes from.

A winning Monday night for a change as the affiliates won four out of seven despite being on the wrong side of a no-hitter. New Hampshire came up with a rain dance to preserve a win. Buffalo had the night off.

New Hampshire scored 16 runs with great performances from their hitting and pitching.  Buffalo won both games in a double header versus Syracuse, and Vancouver lost a 19 inning marathon.

Noah Syndergaard beat the Fisher Cats by not allowing an earned run in seven innings. Brett Lawrie had 2 hits DH'ing in that game. Vancouver laid down a beating. The GCL Jays won both ends of a doubleheader.

Elsewhere the news was not as good. Buffalo and Dunedin had chances to tie the games in the ninth but fell short. Lansing were one hit. Bluefield had just five hits.

I was wrong, my mistake. I regret, look at the price I paid.

"We don't buy our titles, so there are summers when we stink."

I was thinking about how the ex-Jays are doing this year, not just the ones who were playing here at some point in 2012, as many have left, but also some of the older ones.

Ryan Schimpf hit a three run home run to deliver a one run win to New Hampshire. Four teams suffered walk-off losses, Buffalo in the ninth, Dunedin in the 11th, Vancouver in the 10th and Bluefield in the 13th. Lansing lost a walk-fest.

Brett Lawrie was hitless. Among prospects Pillar and Gose were also without a hit, AJ Jimenez had a couple including a big fly, Burns had one, Nessy also hit one out, Michael Crouse had three hits, Matt Dean had two. Deck McGuire gave up five runs in five innings.