Read about it here.

So what would it take to get 31-year-old Roy Halladay?

That's a question posed by friend of Batter's Box Jamey Newberg, author of Major League Baseball's best free e-mail newsletter, The Newberg Report (the online bible of all things Texas Ranger) today ... he speculates at length in today's edition, archived on his Web site, here.

So read his full screed (the Halladay-to-the-Rangers stuff, which he admits may be nothing "more than an Internet hallucination," is toward the middle and runs 20+ paragraphs) -- and remember ...

The GCL Jays registered the only win of the day.  Your intrepid correspondent was on hand in Binghamton, New York, to see JP Arencibia walk twice.  There was a charge to the early showers in the Syracuse game, the umpire must have developed a sore thumb from the ejections.  

The 6 game over .500 glass ceiling strikes again.

I pulled this out of the Yankees Games Notes.

Coming into this season, there were six players with 10 years of major league experience who had never spent time on the Disabled List. Two of them were Yankees - Johnny Damon and Jorge Posada - and both of them went on the DL for the first time this season. So did Andruw Jones of the Dodgers.

Three still standing!

And none of them are Blue Jays - as best as I can tell, Marco Scutaro is the Jay with the most ML service (4 plus years coming into 2008) who has never visited the DL.

The women put up a solid effort, losing in the medal round to Australia but the men didn't make it that far.  At least the Jays won.

Good pitching beats good hitting and that was a good thing for the affiliates.  The hurlers had only seven runs to work with in a 2-and-1 night on the farm.  Meantime, a member of the Auburn Doubledays came away with some hardware during the NY Penn League All-Star festivities.

The Yankees come to town for a three game set, with third place on the line.

Oh my.

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Ok, it was only 2-0, but it's still a perfect night on the farm.

That's 50 games for the New Boss, and a  29-21 mark since the Second Coming. If you play .580 ball for the entire season, you win 94 games. If they play .580 ball for the rest of this season, they'll finish with 86 wins in what will officially be a Highly Disappointing Season.

The affiliates went just 2-4 on Sunday, blowing a bunch of late leads.  But, in more important events, Brett Cecil dominated for the first time in Triple-A. 

This morning’s minor league update turned into an interesting discussion of who the Jays might call up when the rosters expand. With September about two weeks away, I decided to take a look at the issue more closely and see what history might reveal about names we can expect to see in Toronto blue in September.

I was waxing ecstatic about Roy Halladay a while back - it's just something that happens when you follow this team -  and was sufficiently inspired to build a database with every one of his ML starts, just to know how his latest gem compared with the rest.

It was an even night on the farm, as victories in Dunedin, Lansing and the Gulf Coast League offset losses in the high minors and NY-Penn League. The Lugnuts had a good night at the plate in Fort Wayne and Syracuse managed a good number of hits, even if they came up short in the end. There was a lot of 5 inning starts amongst the starters with few standout performances.