Due to lack of time, this will be the travel size version sans all bells and whistles.

The Blue Jays announced that they have signed 1B-DH Edwin Encarnacion to a three year, $27M deal, with an option for a fourth year at $10M.

Some nights you really have to scour the boxscores to find performances worthy of being awarded a star for the evening and other nights you can find more than enough contenders without trying. Last night was one of the latter, with three strong pitching performances, some nice offensive lines in Lansing, a display of power by Dwight Smith Jr. and a standout line in an All-Star Game.

All-Star Tuesday was a day off for everybody in the system, except for the boys in the Gulf Coast and Dominican Summer Leagues.

Here we journey via the Way Back Machine into the exploits of Blue Jays in All Star Games past...

It was a rough Monday night for the affiliates as they went 0-for-5 with one game suspended due to rain.  Las Vegas and the boys in the Dominican had the day off.

Vancouver Canadians manager Clayton McCullough gets ejected for arguing a blown strike three call and a balk that led to Everett tying the game in the seventh inning at Nat Bailey Stadium Monday night.

Why does baseball have the best all-star game?

The Home Run Derby is tonight, which means at least 60 minutes of being subjected to Chris Berman saying back back back. Robinson Cano and Adrian Gonzalez whooped everyone last year, with Cano taking the crown by a single dinger (bonus points if you remembered that).

Who will win this year? Let's have at it.

The affiliates combined for a losing record on Sunday but there were come notable hitting and pitching performances from the likes of Noah Syndergaard, Christian Lopes, and Chris Hawkins.

Five wins in nine tries for the affiliates were highlighted by two dominant (and encouraging) starts.

The Jays head to the Windy City for the second of three series they'll play against the White Sox, after which we head into the All-Star break. Toronto took two of three from the South Siders in their first matchup, but face one of baseball's hottest teams coming off a sweep of the Rangers. Plus, Youk!

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In a night lacking any other common theme, I'm going to go with the  tenuous thread which ties together the debut of Jake Marisnick and Jon Berti with their new teams, with a nod towards Koby Clemens' big night at his new position.

There were five wins on the farm yesterday with the losses coming at the ends, in Las Vegas and in the Gulf Coast League. However, the one star earned by a pitcher came in one of those two losses. New Hampshire won a walk-off game despite allowing two runs in the top of the 11th and Lansing had a big bottom of the eighth inning for a late come-from-behind victory.

The affiliates were 6-1 Tuesday night with the only blemishes being a rainout and a come from ahead loss.

The shortstops at the top two levels in the Blue Jays system had good nights with their bats but only one of them enjoyed a victory on Monday.  Two affiliates blew huge leads, two lost in extra innings and there were two blowouts.  Another game boiled down to a play at the plate in a 2-6 Monday on the farm.