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What Makes for a Good Blue Jays Draft?

What is the value a major league team can expect a draft class to produce? This is the question that had been bouncing around my head for the past few weeks, since an offhand Twitter discussion between myself, Joshua Howsam (BP Toronto Co-Editor-in-Chief), and Jesse Goldberg-Strassler (Lansing Lugnuts broadcaster) got my brain spinning on the topic. […]

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How MiLB Teams Deal With Public Relations Disasters

By now, you’ve probably heard of the Ogden Raptors’ recent PR disaster, in which they attempted to host an Hourglass Appreciation Night. The tagline for the event guaranteed, “gorgeous women whose curves rival those of any stud pitching prospect!” They wanted to push the envelope and appear edgy, but went about it in the wrong way and got […]

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Francisco Liriano is Almost Back to Peak Form

The Blue Jays beleaguered starting rotation got some reinforcement this week with the returns of J.A. Happ and Francisco Liriano. Happ made it through five innings against the Reds and Liriano lasted into the sixth against New York. Happ wasn’t exactly sharp, but with just one rehab outing under his belt, that wasn’t overly surprising. […]