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Olney is reporting that someone has claimed Rios. The first try at waivers is revocable, so the Jays can pull him back, work out a trade with the claiming team, or give his contract to them. Rios has a full NTC, but I don't think that affects waiver claims.

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It's all about the Bordens baby

In 2008, the Jays' payroll in Canadian dollars (valued at the start of the preceding offseason) was about $100MM. In 2009, the Jays' payroll in canadian dollars (valued at the start of the preceding offseason) was about $100MM.

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How many US Dollars will $100MM CAD buy this coming offseason?
< $80MM
0 votes
$80MM-$84.9MM
0 votes
$85MM-$89.9MM
2 votes
$90MM-$94.9MM
4 votes
$95MM-$99.9MM
2 votes
>$100MM
1 votes

9 votes | Poll has closed

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ESPN actually wrote a story about a Jay? I'm keeping my eye out for horsemen.

5 months ago Tiny Torgen 1 comment 0 recs

Dave Cameron thinks we're successful in part because we don't pinch hit, considering how poorly pinch hitters have been hitting.

7 months ago Tiny Torgen 4 comments 0 recs

Lineup Optimization

I know we had a fanpost about two months ago about what our lineup would probably look like, but Sky Kalkman has a hub for what each team's lineup should look like, and we haven't joined in yet.

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If you had to pick one of the players in this deal to miss 3 months following arthroscopic surgery on his shoulder, you'd have picked Rolen, right? But you'd have been wrong.

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Fun with the 09 schedule

The '09 schedule is out, so let's take a look.

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RISP

We all know about the team's poor performance with RISP, to the order of a .234 AVG (although perhaps we didn't notice our opponents' even worse performance, a mere .225). But who's really to blame?

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Jays close to adding Eckstein?

According to (among other things) http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071213&content_id=2324652&vkey=news_t or&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor, the jays are close to a deal with Eckstein. No terms given.

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