Hot lumber told the story on the farm on Friday with the affiliates winning 5 of 6 games played.  Some nice pitching performances, but the story was told by so many stepping up to the plate on offence.

No news? I guess that's good news.

Today's POTD provides a home and away look at the new center fielder for the Jays with his former club.

Colby Rasmus heads to the Cardinals dugout prior to a game against the Blue Jays June 24, 2010.  Adam Wainwright is in the background.

Three wins in nine tries for the young guys. But that didn't stop some key individuals from performing well.

The higher level affiliates pounded out a bazillion hits while the lower level affiliates had a couple of pitching gems. Read all about it while you prepare for the arrival of the Colby!

Not that long ago, a disgruntled Bauxite wondered if Frank Francisco was about to set a new team record for Blown Saves in a season.

So I wore my Cleveland Indians necktie to work today. Think it choked a little bit?

Ervin "Not Johan" Santana no-hit the Tribe, 3-1 today. Your thoughts, comments, observations?

The Blue Jays have posted a press release via the Twitter:

The TORONTO BLUE JAYS have acquired OF COLBY RASMUS, LHP TREVER MILLER, LHP BRIAN TALLET, and RHP P.J. WALTERS from the St. Louis Cardinals. ..in exchange the @bluejays send RHP EDWIN JACKSON, RHP OCTAVIO DOTEL, LHP MARC RZEPCZYNSKI, OF COREY PATTERSON …and three players to be named later or cash considerations to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Are we happy?

The Jays are dominating Twitter today.  The Ubaldo Jimenez rumours are still out there but the Jays appear to be focused elsewhere.  Today the hot topic is that Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen may be Toronto bound in return for Jason Frasor, a Chicago native, and one or more prospects.

The next rumour is that the Jays will flip Jackson to St Louis for Colby Rasmus, the under-achieving, Tony La Russa doghouse inhabiting, gifted centre fielder.  Is that a straight up deal?  Who knows.

And lost in all the twittering is that the Jays have reportedly signed a bunch of draft picks.

It was a 3-5 night on the farm that included a nail-biter in New Britain, a doubleheader split in West Virginia and a split of sorts in Florida.  There's also lots of stuff to check out in Extra Innings.

The farm featured some exciting games, with a walk-off victory and a 13-inning near-victory.

There's a lot of symmetry going around.

The affiliates went 3-for-3 on the day but there were not many standout performances, aside from Marcus Walden pitching a one-hitter for five innings for Lansing.

It’s Hall of Fame Induction weekend and today will see Roberto Alomar, Bert Blyleven and Pat Gillick gain induction to Cooperstown. Dave Van Horne received the Ford C. Frick award yesterday.

This would be a better headline at another time of the year, as right now it immediately conjure up images of a fortnight-long losing streak and Brendan Ryan’s facial hair. Aside from the GCL Blue Jays, the affiliates scored 15 runs over 6 games, doing their best impersonation of the Seattle Mariners offence. Although that’s 2.5 runs per games, keep in mind that includes a game in the friendly confines of Las Vegas. While there wasn’t much to write home about offensively, the night feature several fine pitching performances.