Baseball America will begin publishing their league top twenty lists this week.  I thought I would take a shot at guessing which Jays might make the lists.

This is a tricky objective because I don't know all the prospects from other organizations nor will I be examining the non-Blue Jay rosters of all the minor league teams to see who should make the list.  I will approach this purely from a Blue Jay perspective.

With a home run in the sixth inning off Michael Bowden, scoring Yunel Escobar, Jose Bautista hit his 48th home run of the year, breaking George Bell’s club record set in 1987.

The Twitter rumour mill is reporting that the Jays will announce on Friday that Vancouver will be the new home of their short season A team, replacing Auburn.

I didn't get the chance to watch the game last night, so you guys will have to help me on the scouting report, but here are my quick impressions after watching the highlights.

Jamey Newberg, a Baurxite since 2006, creates the best daily team-oriented MLB e-newsletter on the planet, the Texas Rangers Newberg Minor League Report. In today's edition, he goes all Toronto on us, as he has done a couple of times before. Enjoy ...

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I’ve been a little under the weather the last couple days, so I’ve reached out to our pal north of the border to pinch-hit today. You might remember this guy from a couple entries he shared with us in 2006.

THE NOUVEAU-BERGERON REPORT
The tragic number for the Jays is now down to four. It would be a waste of time talking about tonight’s game in Baltimore or the weekend series in Boston. This isn’t a bad team – we’d be in second place in the AL West – but there’s plenty of work to be done if we’re gonna make any noise the next few years in the East. Let’s look at something two of the four teams who will be in the playoffs this year did in 2007 to help get them where they are now.

The POTD focuses on Kyle Drabek and his Cy Young Award winning father.  They were spotlighted on JaysVision in between innings of Thursday's game against Texas.

With Kyle Drabek set to make his major league debut Wednesday night comes word that the man he was traded for will get to return to his old stomping grounds next season.   According to bluejays.com, Roy Halladay and the Philadelphia Phillies will be in town for the Canada Day weekend.

For the last couple years, Adam Lind and Aaron Hill have been inextricably linked in conversation about the Jays. It isn't hard to see why; aside from profile similarities (they were both drafted out of college, they're about a year apart in age), they were the offensive leaders on the team last year, belting 35 and 36 homers respectively (no other Jay had more than 19), and driving in 114 and 108 (Barajas was next with 71). And, of course, this year, both have tanked while the rest of the team has hit very well (every starter has an OPS+ over 100 - Hill and Lind are at 85 and 90).

With all these similarities, I'm surprised we haven't started calling them by a dumb hybrid name. Maybe Aram Lill just doesn't have the same ring as, for example, Freed Johnalanotto.

It wasn’t a typical time-sharing arrangement, but once in team history the Blue Jays accomplished a rare split of playing time that I imagine is not common in major league history. In one year, the Jays had 3 players each start at least 50 games at a particular position. This has only occurred once in club history and only at one position during that year. What year was this and who were the players involved?

This game featured the debut of Mississauga's Shawn Hill in a Toronto uniform and the 2010 return of Robert 'Bobby' Ray to the hill.  Hopefully, this will be the first of many POTD's in the coming days as the 2010 campaign winds down.

Let's hope someone passes the audition.

Kyle Drabek, the centerpiece of Toronto's return in the Roy Halladay trade and the 2010 Eastern League leader in wins, has been promoted from Double-A New Hampshire. The son of Doug Drabek will make his major league debut on Wednesday, in Baltimore. Brett Cecil, the scheduled starter, has been pushed back a couple of days.

I feel asleep just after the third inning of Saturday's game when neither team scored a run.  After I woke up, 14 runs had been scored.  Unfortunately, 13 of them were scored by Tampa Bay in a 13-1 shellacking at Ted's Shed.  

This guy could almost pass for Rance Mulliniks!

The Blue Jays minor league season ended with a whimper last night.  The Fisher Cats were eliminated in three straight games to mirror the Dunedin Jays who were swept in two straight.  New Hampshire were unable to score until the ninth inning of game three, they had 29 scoreless innings in the series up to that point. 

Congratulations to  Pohnpei Papayas, the Isodopes  and 92-93 winners respectively of the Regular Season in the BBFL's Alomar, Barfield and Carter divisions.