6:56 PM Eastern As the denizens of Blue Jays Nation lay snug in our beds following the Brandon Morrow news conference – or at least snug in our lunches or some such – Alex Anthopoulos had one more trick up his sleeve. Late Tuesday afternoon, word leaked that the Blue Jays had indeed added to [...]

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1:51 PM Eastern The Blue Jays officially announced Brandon Morrow’s new contract at a morning news conference at Rogers Centre.  The righty, of whom everyone has very high hopes, signed a three-year deal worth a guaranteed $21 million.  Morrow will get $4 million this season – which is just below the midpoint of the exchanged [...]

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10:12 PM Eastern What appeared to be another quiet off-season Monday night got loud in a hurry with the Blue Jays making a pair of moves, signing Brandon Morrow to a three-year contract worth $20 million and giving Hall-of-Famer-to-be Omar Vizquel a minor-league contract with an invitation to compete for the back-up infielder’s job in [...]

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8:37 PM Eastern The deadline for arbitration-eligible players and their teams to exchange salary figures came this afternoon, with the Jays coming into the day having five such players with whom to deal. The Blue Jays don’t like going to arbitration – they haven’t done so since beating Bill Risley in a hearing back in [...]

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11:35 AM Eastern Baseball Canada held its annual Awards Banquet Saturday night and, as always, some of the best and brightest baseballists this nation has ever produced came together to celebrate. 2011 was Canada’s best-ever year on the international stage.  Having never before done better than winning bronze at a major tournament despite coming tantalizingly [...]

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10:38 PM Eastern For the last couple of winters, the Blue Jays have brought some of their best and brightest young up-and-comers to Toronto as part of their Rookie Orientation Camp. There’s a group of seven that’s made its way up here this year – three pitchers, two infielders and two outfielders – and the [...]

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5:45 PM Eastern The Hall of Fame Class of 2012 has been announced, and now it’s time for everyone to get all indignant and stuff and talk about what an awful job the voters did, so let’s get right to it! Before all that, though, I want to commend the writers for not granting Jack [...]

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4:40 PM Eastern The Blue Jays kicked off their 2012 Winter Tour with an afternoon Instructional Camp at Rogers Centre that was attended by hundreds of wide-eyed youngsters who had the chance to learn first-hand from current players like Ricky Romero, Casey Janssen, Brett Lawrie and J.P. Arencibia, and former big-leaguers like Duane Ward, Paul [...]

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3:11 PM Eastern The Blue Jays continued to tweak their roster by pulling off a New Year’s Day deal with the Chicago White Sox, raiding the Pale Hose’s bullpen for the second time in a month. This time, Alex Anthopoulos took advantage of the Sox’ desire to dump salary by bringing back the Jays’ all-time [...]

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11:39 PM Eastern It appears as though the Blue Jays will make another addition to their bullpen early in the New Year, having agreed to terms on what is apparently a one-year contract with a 2013 club option with lefty Darren Oliver who, at 41, will become the oldest player on the team and the [...]

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