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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11:55 AM Eastern So here I am in Ottawa, having driven up here yesterday with the kiddies to surprise my lovely bride (not to stalk the Tao of Stieb or anything – at least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it), and as we prepare for the long drive home, I’m inspired to throw [...]

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1:40 AM Eastern Well, that was a fun night! I can’t remember the last time I’ve been on the air in the middle of December and done almost four hours of nothing but Blue Jays calls, but that’s what happened tonight as we awaited the results of the Yu Darvish bidding, then found out at [...]

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12:45 PM Eastern As I write this, we’re a couple of days past the deadline to submit bids for the rights to negotiate with the next great pitcher to come out of Japan, Yu Darvish, and we’re a few days ahead of the deadline by which Darvish’s NPB team, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters must decide [...]

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2:32 PM Eastern Another out-of-nowhere trade by the Blue Jays this afternoon – they dealt minor-league lefty Frank Gailey to the Phillies for outfielder and non-tender candidate Ben Francisco. This is the second deal the Jays have made this month in which they picked up a player who was likely to have been made a [...]

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1:31 PM Central The Winter Meetings started with a big bang and finished with an even bigger one, as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim stole the Miami Marlins’ early thunder by throwing around some huge money of their own. The Marlins started things off by signing closer Heath Bell, shortstop Jose Reyes and starter [...]

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5:50 PM Central The big news that came out of the Day Three media sitdown with Alex Anthopoulos is that the Blue Jays’ G.M. believes that Kelly Johnson will accept the Jays’ offer of arbitration by tonight’s Midnight Eastern deadline, returning to the team for which he hit .270/.364/.417 in a five-week stint after coming [...]

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10:07 AM Central One of these years, I’m going to get to write an article that celebrates Tom Cheek winning the Ford C. Frick Award for Broadcasting Excellence, and that describes the excitement of all Blue Jays fans in anticipation of seeing him inducted into the broadcasters’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame [...]

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6:10 PM Central Part of every Winter Meetings is a half-hour media sit-down with every big-league manager – the Yankees even participate in this now! – and John Farrell sat down to discuss all things Blue Jayic (and some things Red Soxal). Before I get to the highlights of our conversation with him, though, I [...]

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