The On Deck Circle

Hey, remember Alex Rios? He was one of the Jays top prospects for several years, burst onto the scene with a frustrating one-home-run rookie season, and then spent the next four and a half seasons tormenting Blue Jays fans by showing glimpses of superstar potential but never figuring “it” out? He of the crippling 7-year, [...]

“Why don’t you quit making blogs, try and make some money?” – Fabolous “Yup, I’m back stuntin!” – Fabolous Fabolous sent me home and brought me back. This makes no sense. What an awful way to return to writing. Whatever. Anyway… A great deal has been made around Blue Jay Nation of late as to [...]

Most Blue jay fans probably don’t realize that the team is still playing right now. For those that do, they would have witnessed (or at least known about) two phenomenal starts from Roy Halladay down the stretch. On September 25, in what may be his last start at Rogers’ Center as a Jay, Halladay spun [...]

There’s a reason baseball fans crave September. It’s certainly not the declining temperatures, shortened hours of sunlight, or hockey buzz that comes with the month. Instead, it’s September call-ups, it’s statistic tracking, and it’s playoff races. And as I write this on September 3rd (it will be updated after the games tonight to be posted [...]

The recent call up of Randy Ruiz over Travis Snider has Jays fans talking. At first, I was being asked questions about arbitration eligibility and Snider’s Triple-A performance. But now, after a five game audition where Ruiz has gone 7-for-21 with two homeruns, the questions have started to focus on the Rod Barajas look-alike. Questions [...]

I guess it’s difficult to argue with the Blue Jays on this one. After all, the team has the American League’s sixth best team ERA with a mark of 4.19, and the company line can sometimes be confused for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…and if it’s mediocre, don’t fix it…you know what, just [...]

Lost in the news of Mike Vick signing with the Philadelphia Eagles was a gem of an interview from Bronson Arroyo yesterday. It was my favorite news of the day, for certain. I knew I wanted to write about it, but I really couldn’t decide how I felt about his statements. Is Arroyo an idiot? [...]

With the Fantasy Baseball season beginning to wind down for those not in contention, most leagues have begun discussions about what changes should be made for next year. With my 5×5 Roto League lead now up to a disgusting and insurmountable 14.5 points (runs is the only category I’m not top-4, OBP the only other [...]

According to ESPN, a team has made a waiver claim on Jays’ right fielder Alex Rios. While the details of such a waiver claim can confuse some fans, it is common practice for several hundred players to go through waivers after the trade deadline – it allows the player to be traded past the deadline, [...]

In 2009, Ben Zobrist has been, to say the least, a surprise. A terrific surprise, at that. A minimum-contract player once acquired as part of an Aubrey Huff trade (along with Mitch Talbot), the 2004 sixth round draft pick of the Houston Astros has made quite the impact for the Tampa Bay Rays this year. [...]