Hey, better late than never, right!

Somewhere J.P. Ricciardi is smiling.

That's the truth!  A perfect night all around in Toronto and for the minor league affiliates who go 4-0 Tuesday night. 

Gustavo Pierre is one of the newest Blue Jays.  Pierre signed with the Jays a couple of years ago for around $700,000.  He was born in December 1991 so he is still just 18 years old and if he was living in the US or Canada he would graduate high school in a couple of months.

It was my home opener last night, and I brought my new camera.

Sportsnet says the Jays have rubber-stamped the four-year, $10-million dollar deal for Cuban shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria.  Thanks to Bauxite Nick Holmes for the heads-up.

Update @ 4:20 p.m. - Jordan Bastian of bluejays.com provides more details.

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 ...