Sergio Santos, whose availability to the Blue Jays has been a rarity since he was acquired from the White Sox in December, 2011, will undergo elbow surgery this week. The club is calling it a "minor" procedure to clean out "loose bodies" and shave down bone spurs. ...more
As the Blue Jays were winning two out of three in Boston with a piecemeal starting rotation, the franchise's one-time ace was making his first start with Triple-A Buffalo. Ricky Romero's outing, on Saturday in Louisville, was more of the same from the struggling left-hander. ...more
Brandon Morrow, who was scratched from Friday's start at Fenway Park due to a back strain, is feeling better but not well enough to start Sunday's series finale with the Red Sox. As Scott MacArthur of TSN Radio 1050 writes, Morrow expects to be ready Wednesday against the San Francisco Giants. ...more
Some notes of interest after left-hander Jon Lester one-hit the Blue Jays in a 5-0 Red Sox victory at Fenway Park. ...more
When Ramon Ortiz throws a pitch in the first inning of Friday's game in Boston, he will become the oldest player (39 years and 352 days) to start a game for the Blue Jays since Dave Stieb (41 years, 55 days) on September 15, 1998. It's not how general manager Alex Anthoupolos drew up the starting rotation at the beginning of the year. Scott MacArthur has more. ...more
Brett Lawrie, still looking to find his offensive groove, spent Thursday afternoon taking extra batting practice. When he wasn't swinging for the fences, he was swinging back at Twitter followers expressing frustration with his slow start. TSN 1050 Radio's Scott MacArthur has more from Florida. ...more
J.A. Happ was at Tropicana Field visiting teammates on Wednesday, a welcome sight considering the myriad alternatives after he was struck in the head by a line drive on Tuesday evening. Happ has a fracture of the skull behind his left ear, a badly cut left ear and a right knee injury he suffered when his leg buckled as he dropped to the dirt of the pitcher's mound. ...more
Fed up with being injured and rehabbing more than two thousand kilometres from Toronto, Sergio Santos is preparing to make the final push toward his return from a triceps strain. ...more
The Blue Jays won the game 6-4. It was the club’s third straight victory – first three-game winning streak of the season – and it assured the Jays of no worse than a split of the four-game series. But it wasn’t significant tonight. Not after what happened to pitcher J.A. Happ. ...more
Surely the Blue Jays were double checking their surroundings after Monday night’s stunning, come-from-behind, 8-7 win over the Rays. Good things – wins included – rarely happen at Tropicana Field. Heck, this park has been Toronto’s kryptonite since the Rays were the Devil Rays. ...more
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