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Jays owner Rogers dead at 75 Tue Dec  2 12:06:30 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Toronto Blue Jays owner Ted Rogers died at his home at the age of 75. The founder of Rogers Communications Inc., Canada's largest cable television and mobile phone company, suffered from congestive heart failure and saw his health weaken over the past few years. Rogers Communications owns the Blue Jays and their home at the Rogers Centre, several television stations and an array of other media properties. The company purchased the Blue Jays from Interbrew for $160
Burnett offered arbitration by Blue Jays Mon Dec  1 20:59:13 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Toronto Blue Jays offered salary arbitration to star right-handed hurler A.J. Burnett on Monday. Burnett finished second to ace Roy Halladay in wins for Toronto a season ago, going 18-10 with a 4.07 earned-run average and an American League best 231 strikeouts in 221 1/3 innings over 34 starts. Since the 31-year-old is a Type-A free agent, the Jays would get two compensatory picks should Burnett sign with another team. A 10-year veteran who has logged the last
Blue Jays C Barajas back for 2009 Fri Oct 31 13:51:42 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Toronto Blue Jays on Friday exercised the team option on catcher Rod Barajas for 2009. Barajas, 33, hit for a .249 average, 11 homers and 49 RBI in 104 games last season for Toronto. He threw out 17 of 59 baserunners attempting to steal for a 28.8 percent success rate. A 10-year veteran, Barajas has played for Arizona, Texas, Philadelphia and Toronto. He is a career .241 hitter with 73 home runs and 284 RBI.
Blue Jays bring in Loewen Fri Oct 24 16:25:05 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Toronto Blue Jays signed first baseman/outfielder Adam Loewen to a minor league contract on Friday. Loewen was formerly a pitcher, but after suffering through stress fractures in his throwing elbow the past two seasons, he is attempting to make the transformation to a positional player. The 24-year-old spent the past three seasons with Baltimore where he went 8-8 with a 5.38 earned-run average in 35 games, including 29 starts. Also on Friday, the Blue Jays cla
Blue Jays' Beeston returns as CEO Tue Oct 14 14:45:06 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Longtime Toronto Blue Jays executive Paul Beeston has returned to his old title of CEO on an interim basis. The Blue Jays announced on Tuesday that Beeston, who was the first employee hired by the expansion club in 1976 and climbed the ladder to president and CEO by 1989, will return to the Toronto front office. He left the Blue Jays in 1997 to become COO for Major League Baseball, and left that position in 2002. "No one, as we'd all agree, could be better qualifi
Blue Jays keep coaching staff intact Tue Sep 30 12:22:16 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Toronto Blue Jays will be bringing back their entire coaching staff for the 2009 season. The Blue Jays agreed to two-year contract extensions with pitching coach Brad Arnsberg, bench coach Brian Butterfield, third base coach Nick Leyva, first base coach Dwayne Murphy, hitting coach Gene Tenace and bullpen coach Bruce Walton on Tuesday. Manager Cito Gaston, who led Toronto to a 51-37 record after replacing John Gibbons on June 20, signed a two-year extension la
Jays, Orioles resume set in Camden Yards Sat Sep 27 10:56:59 2008 EST
(Sports Network) - Ex-Oriole John Parrish faces his old club for the third time tonight, when the Toronto Blue Jays head back to Camden Yards for the middle test of a three-game weekend set with slumping Baltimore. A 31-year-old southpaw, Parrish was a 25th-round draft pick of the Orioles in 1996 and began his career with them in 2000, making 153 appearances through the 2007 season. He closed that season with eight relief appearances for Seattle, then began 2008 with Toronto and has made five s
Blue Jays blank Orioles in shortened game Fri Sep 26 22:32:35 2008 EST
Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - Scott Richmond got his first big league win and Curtis Thigpen hit his first major league home run, as the Toronto Blue Jays downed Baltimore, 3-0, in the rain-shortened opener of both clubs' final series of the season. Richmond (1-3) surrendered only four hits without issuing a walk and fanned three. Scott Rolen and Jose Bautista drove in a run apiece for Toronto, which had lost three of four coming into this three-game set at Camden Yards. Chris Waters (3-5) t
Yankees beat Blue Jays, but playoff run ends Tue Sep 23 22:37:03 2008 EST
nto, ON (Sports Network) - Mike Mussina was solid on the mound to post his 19th win of the year and Jason Giambi clubbed his 32nd homer on the season, though the Yankees were eliminated from playoff contention despite a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Boston edged Cleveland 5-4 on Tuesday to clinch a playoff berth, which left New York on the outside of the postseason picture looking in for the first time since the 1993 campaign. Mussina (19-9) allowed just four hits and fanned six batte
Marcum to have Tommy John surgery Fri Sep 19 18:36:20 2008 EST
Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Shaun Marcum will undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, and could miss all of the 2009 season. Heralded sports surgeon Dr. James Andrews will perform the procedure, though no date has been scheduled. Marcum has been battling problems in his right arm all season long. He missed a month between June and July with a sore right elbow, and had to leave his most recent start on Tuesday with pain in his right forearm and numbness in his
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