Toronto Blue Jays news and notes

Toronto Blue Jays mid season review

I  think the Toronto Blue Jays have two major thing holding them back, the first they are the only MLB team located in Canada so they have to work extra hard to convince players to go there, and they are in a division with the Yankees, Red Sox, and the Tampa Bay Rays. Clearly they have an uphill fight each and every year. At 39-35 they have a winning record and find themselves 7 games behind the Yankees for the American League Central lead. They seem to be playing fairly well, and in any other division they might be in the running for first place.

2010 MLB preview: Toronto Blue Jays

Sometimes we really have to feel for the folks that run the Toronto Blue Jays. They are the only Canadian team, and they are in a division with the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and now the Tampa Bay Rays. Life is tough for a “Small Market team” and they never seem to be able to afford their stars for the long term. The big questions for this club is who will replace Roy Halladay as the ace? Can Vernon Wells regain his from 2006, and does new general manager Alex Anthopoulos have a solid plan for the future?

2009 MLB season in review: Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are tough to figure out, sometimes the look like a team on paper that should be far better than they are, and then sometimes they look like a team that is far behind their division mates like the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays. In April of the past year, the Jays looked like a team that could compete for the American League Wild Card, and then the lost 70 of their final 118 games, and got their General Manager fired. There are rumors that the team does not like their old school manager Cito Gaston, and of course their are the attendance issues.

Toronto Blue Jays fire their General Manager

The longest tenured baseball General Manger without a post season trip on his resume was let go today. JP Ricciardi has been fired by the Toronto Blue Jays, and it may be the first signal in a complete overhaul of this under achieving franchise. Ricciardi has been the main guy for the Jays since 2001, and he was never able to return this organization back to the glory of the past. In all reality Ricciardi has done little in his tenure with the Blue Jays.