Just over six weeks left. The battles for post-season positions are coming and the Blue Jays are right in the thick of it!
After all, they have many games to play against almost all the teams that actually have a legitimate chance to make it...
A quiet night in the minors as Syracuse and NH had the day off. The remaining 4 affiliates split their 4 games.
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Jesse Litsch
has been recalled and returns to the starting rotation. To make room, John Parrish has been optioned to Syracuse (Parrish still has options?) and Scott Richmond will work out of the bullpen.
I logged on this morning to check out the Minor League Update. When it wasn't there I realized it was because Sunday's my day to report. Whoops.
In any event, one of two things happened to each affiliate yesterday: They either didn't play or they scored five runs and won. If the anticipation of knowing who did what is killing you, just click 'more'.
They say that money can't buy love in this world
But it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine and a sixteen-year old girl
And a great big long limousine on a hot September night
Now that may not be love, but it is all right
We had a brief glance at the evolving AL payrolls a few days back. It was suggested that we should see how they do these things in the Other League.
David Wells doesn't seem to know that the only reason his nickname was 'Boomer' was because:
a) the Jays already had had a player named Greg 'Boomer' Wells, and
b) baseball people will never give you an imaginative nickname if they can give you an unimaginative one.
Vernon Wells is back, and will DH and bat 4th today. Kevin Mench has been optioned to Syracuse.
A rainout in the Gulf Coast League meant that five affiliates were in action and four of those games were decided in the last inning. If I tell you that Auburn was the team not involved in one of those aforementioned games and that the affiliates went 3-1 in those games, could you guess which team took the loss? I hope you’d at least be able to narrow it down to two pretty quickly. Lansing won in extras behind a couple of 4-hit performances, Travis Snider went 2-4 in Triple-A and David Cooper hit his first homer in High-A. Rehabbing big leaguers did not do so well, as Shannon Stewart and V-Dub both were hitless and Jeremy Accardo gave up a pair of runs.
A big night on the farm as the affiliates went 4-2. More importantly, some impressive prospects put up some impressive performances.
About once a year, the Toronto Blue Jays take a kid out of the minor leagues and put him right into the starting rotation.
Warning: there is trivia involved!
Ho hum. The Jays
beat up on the Athletics with good starting pitching and relieving, great defense and timely hitting. So that's what it's like!
Lets, however, turn our attention to more esoteric pursuits: baseball nicknames.
First round selection David Cooper continued his assault on minor league pitchers with a 2-for-5 night with two RBI in his first game in Dunedin on Thursday night. Dunedin represents Cooper's third minor league stop already this year despite having just signed his first pro contract in June. Travis Snider, playing left field, also had a successful AAA debut, going 2-for-3 with two RBI. The Baby Jays managed to go 3-3 despite being outscored, in total, 38-19. The MLU is a joint effort today.
Opportunity, opportunity
This is your big opportunity
- Elvis Costello
Recent developments in the AL East have got me thinking. Which is probably something I should be worried about, but it's too late to stop now.
There was good pitching in the lower levels of the minors yesterday. Auburn played a doubleheader where the teams combined to score four runs. Lansing won an extra inning game 3-1, while the Gulf Coast Blue Jays lost an extra inning game 2-1. For those of you keeping track at home, that’s 36 innings of baseball with 11 runs scored. Brett Cecil got his first victory for Syracuse while Dunedin won a nail-biter by continuously chipping away at the Sarasota Reds. Meanwhile, New Hampshire lost as four add-on runs came back to haunt them. Oh yes, and Travis Snider continued his meteoric rise through the Jays system with JP announcing on WWJP that he'd been promoted to Triple-A, with Brian Dopirak getting a much-deserved promotion to New Hampshire and David Cooper making the jump to High-A.
