The Jays head into Philadelphia for three games. This is getting into the middle of the tough stretch of games. Houston done, Boston and the Yankees await. These next ten games will be a real marker of how optimistic we can be for the Jays.

I am not sure when "Dub" became part of the vocabulary. I have a feeling its in the last five years or so but of course I could be wrong. Apparently Dub is short for "W" or win. I cannot find anything on the web as to why Dub Gleed goes by that name. Milb lists him as Dub. The New Hampshire X account tweeted William Stanton Gleed which seems to be his real name. So on Thursday Dub Gleed homered again, his 16th of the season compared to two last year. Dub was in the Marlins system last season and came to the Blue Jays in the Leo Jimenez trade at the end of spring training. Dub is exhibit A in what the Jays hope to do with the low power hitters they acquired at the deadline.

Dub's homer helped NH win. Charles McAdoo also homered to help Buffalo win. Payton Williams homered twice but it wasn't enough for Vancouver. Dunedin's rainy season continued with another rain out.

The Jays make a quick one day trip into Chicago for a make up game. Dylan Cease gets to start on his extra day of rest. It is also his first start of August after being pitcher of the month in July.

Through the season you get used to one of the affiliates bullpen blowing a game in the last couple of innings. So it was nice to see the reverse on Wednesday as Buffalo scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth for a win. Vancouver also won. Dunedin split a doubleheader while New Hampshire were blown out.

Buffalo lost, Vancouver was slaughtered and the DSL Red squad was dummied. New Hampshire won while Dunedin was rained out. Another losing Tuesday on the farm. This is not a drill.

Some form of the Jays will take on some form of the Astros for a three game series. The Astros are in first place, 2.5 games ahead of the Rangers. There are on a six game winning streak and are 9-1 in their last ten.

Well, the trades have started. Let's have a clean thread for this

A big day on the farm, three wins, no losses, and two of them were blow out wins. New Hampshire and Vancouver both shutout their opponents while scoring six and 14 runs respectively. Jackson Wentworth and Johnny King both pitched well. Hitting was strong up and down the lineups. Dunedin were rained out.

Buffalo had the lead in the eighth inning but lost. New Hampshire also led but lost late. Dunedin waited until the tenth inning to lose. Vancouver were the exception, they were down 9-0 in the fourth inning.

The Parkers were one of the bright spots. Aaron had two hits for New Hampshire while Jojo homered, and also had two hits, for Dunedin.

Spokane 7 Vancouver 5 (10)

Hartford 9 New Hampshire 8

New Hampshire 3 Hartford 2

Dunedin 5 St. Lucie 0

Lehigh Valley 7 Buffalo 2

The Cardinals come into town four days before the trade deadline. Per my proprietary trade calculator there is a 70% chance of at least one Blue Jay trade happening before this series ends. Monday is "THE BIG DAY" but you can't leave it all until the end, right? Plenty of Jays will be in the shop window this weekend, will that help or hiner the teams performance?

Ismael Munguia racked up five hits over two games of a doubleheader. The big question is is this a new level of performance or a career year? Buffalo split the DH. Dunedin also won as Jojo Parker and Blaine Bullard stayed hot. Vancouver had a bad loss, New Hampshire's also lost.

A couple of hitters had big games on Wednesday. Willie MacIver hit three home runs, Jojo Parker hit two. It was three wins and no losses in a nice night for the affiliates.

New Hampshire and Dunedin were throttled, but Vancouver won. The DSL squads split a pair. Buffalo’s game was rained out. Once again, another Tuesday with a losing record for the affiliates.


Jean Joseph homered in his first at-bat with Vancouver on Tuesday.

The wounded Jays limp into Washington for a three game series. The Nationals find themselves one game out of a wild card spot so they will be trying to improve that against the poorly playing Blue Jays.

One of the big Nationals stories is the fate of CJ Abrams. Even though the Nats are one game out of the wild card, rumours suggest that Abrams could be traded. Abrams hit two home runs yesterday and now has seven home runs since the all-star break, more than several teams including the Jays. The stories say the Nats are listening without actively shopping him. If the Nats keep on winning will they stop listening?