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Not much else to say.  One win in five tries including a blowout.  Luckily, the one win featured a nice start by a top prospect.
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The draft is eight days away.  Use this thread as a catch all for draft discussion.
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It doesn't look like Marc Rzepczynski will be starting for the Jays anytime soon.  After allowing nine runs in the PCL hell on Saturday, Zep's ERA is 18.56.  Lansing also lost and the only win was thanks to BJ LaMura who pitched six shutout innings for New Hampshire.  Chuck Huggins made his AA debut and pitched well in a losing cause. 
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Doc fries the fish to perfection!!  Roy Halladay has thrown a perfect game against the Florida Marlins!  Congrats, Roy!!

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Sunday's series finale is Photo Day.  Here's a look back at the 2009 event.

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It was Ripley's "believe it or not" night for the affiliates Friday.  Consider:

Jarrett Hoffpauir hit for the cycle in Las Vegas's win over Tacoma.  It was his second cycle of the season.

Two Jays, Aaron Mathews in Vegas and Eric Thames for New Hampshire, hit inside the park home runs

New Hampshire were losing 6-1 in the eighth inning and won.

David Cooper, who has been struggling all season, hit a two run home run in the ninth to tie the game

Bubbie Buzachero, who had an ERA around 8 before last nights game, pitched five innings to get the win for the Fisher Cats

Chad Beck, whose pre-game ERA was over 6, made a spot start for Dunedin and pitched five shutout innings

Travis D'Arnaud hit a grand slam homerun.

Zach Stewart gave up five runs in the first two innings, then pitched three almost perfect innings

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Oh man what a terrible headline. When you go 2-2 and there are few standout performances you have to take what you can get though.
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The Orioles invade Toronto this weekend looking to narrow the 11.5-game gap between them and fourth place.
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Chad Jenkins is two months into his professional baseball career.  He is pitching for Lansing in the Midwest League and I caught up with him there last week.  Here is our interview.

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There was timely hitting and good relief in Las Vegas, a strong display with the bats and by the starter in Double-A, uncommon struggles for Dunedin and more offensive prowess in Lansing. Two of Toronto’s best pitching prospects pitched last night, one well and the other not so well at all.
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I am not a scout, I just play one on the internet.  I was in Lansing last weekend to see three Lugnut games.  I spoke with manager Sal Fasano, pitching coach Antonio Caceres, scouts and others hanging around the team to build a picture of the players, to go with what I observed.

My observations are below.  Remember it is tough to evaluate a hitter in a handful of at-bats, they might be hot or cold that weekend which would influence my comments.

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Antonio Caceres is back for his second season as the pitching coach at Lansing.  Previously Caceres had been the pitching coach in Auburn and prior to that Caceres was a pitcher in the Blue Jays minor league system in the nineties.  Last season pitchers Henderson Alvarez and Chuck Huggins made big strides under Caceres and he hopes to do the same this year with a new group of pitchers.  I spoke with Caceres last week in Lansing.
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Seeing as we're quickly approaching the 50 game mark, we're also getting to that point where performance can't necessarily be masked as a quick or slow start anymore.  So with that being said, I thought I'd throw it to you folks to give your best guess as to where some things may shake out come October.  Call it an End of May Prediction Thread.
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Two doubleheaders were split down the middle by the affiliates as part of a 3-3 night on the farm.

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Sal Fasano was only a member of the Blue Jay's organization as a player for one year, and in that year he had only 45 at-bats, but he did leave a lasting impression on the organization.  Maybe it was the moustache or maybe it was because he is a friendly guy.  Fasano is now back as manager of the Lansing Lugnuts and I caught up with him last weekend in Lansing.
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