Jays lose 8-7 to the White Sox after Jason Frasor blows the save. More importantly: what is the record for most consecutive games with a save situation to open a season? I guess that's kind of a convoluted stat, but 7 seems like a lot to me. Also, Vernon homered again.

Well, the good folks over at the World-Wide Leader have graced the Internets with the first in-season ranking of all 30 MLB teams.

Let's look at some of the biggest changes after Week 1; your thoughts and opinions are welcome of course.

Let's cut right to the chase ... the AL East has four of the top nine teams ranked, including your Blue Jays at a hale and hearty #8 ...

On Monday night, the farm played a bunch of close games, and got a couple great performances from Latin America products.

The Globe and Mail reports the Jays have placed second baseman Aaron Hill on the 15-day disabled list as he is on the shelf with a hamstring injury.  Outfielder Jeremy Reed has been called up from the Las Vegas 51's.

Today's POTD features Tim Collins who fanned five hitters for New Hampshire on Saturday night.  This POTD is also a VOTD with a link to video of Collins pitching.

NUKE:   Can't you let me enjoy the moment?
CRASH: The moment's over.

Indeed. In fact, it's the famous words spoken by Winston Wolf, when Vincent and Jules are congratulating themselves on the wonderful job they've just done cleaning all the blood and gore out of the car, that come to my mind right about now.

One you were probably aware of since September, the other was just scheduled recently.

Sunday saw three wins in four tries for the affiliates highlighted by a strong start by a top prospect and the professional debut of another.

Yup, there's your "Breaking News" ... Roy "Doc" Halladay is a pretty decent pitcher. It's April, and he throws a complete-game seven-hitter against the (admittedly struggling) Astros to win the Battle of the Roys with Astro righty Oswalt. Doc has now allowed just one earned run in 16 innings for the Phillies.

Yeah, he's pretty good. Can't imagine the Phillies (or anyone) actually ever trading him ...

The man wearing Russ Adams' old number eight came through at the plate and behind it by helping the man wearing Justin Speier's former digits to a 3-0 win in Baltimore Saturday night.

The Dunedin hitters had really been struggling over their first two games but on Saturday they faced Brad Lidge who was making a rehab appearance.  They tagged him for four runs and went on to win the game.  New Hampshire won their game too with solid pitching from Zach Stewart and the bullpen and a home run by Brad Emaus.  Tim Collins recorded five outs, all by strikeout.  Las Vegas didn't play well but Brett Wallace hit a home run, while the Lugnuts lost again despite three hits by Bradley Glenn.

Day two of the minor league season looked a lot like day one.  Las Vegas again rode good pitching to beat Salt Lake.  The Dunedin hitters still haven't found their bats and took another bad loss.  Lansing again went to extra innings and again lost.  New Hampshire did not get the chance to do it again as they were rained out.

Stars of the night were JP ARencibia, Rey Gonzalez and Kenny Wilson.

You don't feel taken and you don't feel abused.

Oh, who the hell am I kidding? PLAYOFFS!

New Hampshire got off to a hot start when Darin Mastroianni led off the season with a home run and before Kyle Drabek reached the mound he had a four run lead.  On the other hand Clearwater threw a perfect game against Dunedin for six innings.  New Hampshire went on to win while Dunedin were well beaten.

Lansing had four RBI's from Ryan Schimpf and home runs from 2009 draftees Schimpf and Ryan Goins but lost in extra innings.   Las Vegas won with a shutout, Brad Mills and the bullpen held Salt Lake to three hits.

Bullpens were generally strong on Thursday, the Fisher Cats got four innings of perfect relief from Luis Perez and Danny Farquhar.  The Lugnuts also got four innings of perfect relief from Nestor Molina and Dustin Antolin but they lost the game in the sixth inning of relief.  Las Vegas got three innings of shutout relief to cement their win.

Kyle Drabek made his Blue Jay debut last night in a Fisher Cat win.  Today Drabek is featured in the POTD as well as in the VOTD, video of the day.