The Blue Jays signed catcher Jason Phillips to a 1 year, $500,000 contract.
Phillips will serve as the backup catcher to Gregg Zaun. He'll get most of his action against LH pitchers where he's a career .271/.347/.418 hitter.
Today is the deadline to offer players arbitration. The Jays have two decisions to make - Ted Lilly and Bengie Molina. Lilly will certainly be offered arbitration while Molina will almost definitely not be offered arbitration (given that the Jays have two catchers right now and a signing team will have to give up a draft pick to sign Molina). The Giants have some interest in Molina.
In the article linked above there were also a couple of developments:
Ricciardi said Thursday that Clayton's signing by no means guarantees him carte blanche status at short. "Nothing is defined right now," Ricciardi said. "[Clayton] is going to get a chance to play a lot."
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