Up With Bush - Jays Make a Roster Move

Thursday, July 01 2004 @ 06:24 AM EDT

Contributed by: Pepper Moffatt

Mike Wilner of the Fan 590 has reported that 2002 Jays 2nd round pick David Bush has been called up to the big team. To make room on both the 25 and 40-man rosters it appears that Michael Nakamura will be taken off, leaving his future with the Blue Jays organization in doubt. None of this appears to be 100% official yet. Thanks to Rob (who isn't named Ryan) for the heads up.

UPDATE: 7:50PM. An AP story reports that "The Blue Jays optioned reliever Mike Nakamura to Syracuse after Thursday's 14-0 win at Tampa Bay [...] Toronto will make an additional move Friday to open a spot on the 40-man roster for Bush."

Bush is the second of the J.P. 2002 draft picks to be called up to the big team and has put together the following line in AAA Syracuse:

PITCHERS    W-L SV ERA  G GS CG SHO GF AB TBF IP H R ER BB IB SO HR HB WP 
Bush, David 6-6 0 4.06 16 16 2 1 0 388 426 99.2 108 52 45 20 1 88 7 6 4
(Source: Baseball America)

For those of you keeping score at home, here's how the first five of the 2002 draft picks have performed this year:
1. Russ Adams - .270/.353/.388 281AB AAA Syracuse
2. David Bush - Just Called Up to Toronto
3. Justin Maureau - 2.25ERA, 0HR, 6BB, 3K, 4IP A Dunedin
4. Adam Peterson - 16.88ERA, 1HR, 3BB, 2K, 2.2IP in Toronto
5. Chad Pleiness - 4.56ERA, 4HR, 21BB, 31K, 47.1IP in Dunedin


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