The trade deadline has come and gone quietly for the Blue Jays.
Today, David Bush takes on the Devil Rays for the second time. A day after talking to us, Bush battled the Rays in Skydome and earned his first major league win. Bush threw nearly 70% of his pitches for strikes and gave up 3 runs (only 1 earned) in 7.1 innings. He walked 1 batter, struck out 2 and gave up a solo dinger to Aubrey Huff.
With Victor Zambrano now a Met, the Rays throw Jorge Sosa against Toronto.
Lee Sinins's
daily reports are a great place to get your baseball news in digest form. There were several juicy rumours and of course some trades (both high and low impact) on the penultimate day before the "first" trading deadline. Here are the trades in distilled form:
LA gets
Brad Penny,
Hee Seop Choi and minor league P
Bill MurphyFLA gets
Guillermo Mota,
Paul Lo Duca and
Juan EncarnacionMETS get
Kris Benson, minor league 2B
Jeff KeppingerPIT gets
Ty Wigginton, minor league P
Matt Peterson, INF
Jose BautistaKCR gets mior league C
Justin HuberTBD gets minor league Ps
Scott Kazmir and
Jose DiazMETS get
Victor Zambrano and minor league P
Bartolome FortunatoSFG gets
Ricky Ledee, minor league P
Alfredo SimonPHI gets
Felix RodriguezPHI gets
Todd Jones, minor league OF
Brad CorrellCIN gets minor league P
Josh Hancock and minor league SS
Anderson Machado
A losing night overall down on the farm. Adam Peterson blew up good, again.
Our only goal will be the western shore.
So now you’d better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day
The Jays are back at square one. After being swept in Toronto, the D-Rays swept the hapless Royals, gaining 2 games in the standingsto lead the fifth place Blue Jays by 4 games.
Tampa Bay outscored Kansas City 18 to 3 over the three games. Tall lefthanded Mark Hendrickson tossed a 4-hit shutout, allowed but one unearned run. Rob Bell and 3 relievers combined on a 4-hit shutout to complete the sweep.
Josh Towers and John Halama are the scheduled starters.
Apologies once again for a rather spartan Advance Scout. I'm pulling a Joe Namath, though, and guaranteeing against the odds that the Cleveland Scout next week will be a real bang-up report.
In the meantime, enjoy the series! The Devil Rays bounced back from their lost weekend in Toronto by returning home and sweeping the hapless crew from Kansas City. The Jays are eager to smack 'em down again. Should be a good one.
A four day homestand, featuring two day games, and one of them is on a holiday!
Thanks to our own Coach and Will "The Thrill" Hill of the Jays, I had a photographic press pass to last Friday's game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
In a rather dismal season for the Blue Jays, many of us have taken a keener interest in the minor leagues. As my own knowledge of Blue Jays prospects has increased, so has my interest in the context of the stats being compiled by The Future.
Is there any better kind of science?
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Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes it rains. Three wins, three losses, and two rainouts for the minor league affiliates last night.
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who's right and who's wrong
A new Hall of Names today - this time, we're going with all-animal names. I won't restrict anyone in coming up with Hall of Names teams with an animal theme, but I will start us off with an all-dog-nickname team...
After only four big-league games, it’s safe to say that David Bush is more than a one-hit wonder. The rookie righthander’s 1-1 record could easily be 4-0 with a little more support from his teammates. In two of his starts, the Jays’ bats have fallen completely silent, and another time, the bullpen couldn’t hold a two run lead. One of those no-decisions was a masterpiece — eight innings of one-hit shutout. Bush took a no-hitter into the eighth before Damian Miller of the A’s singled to break it up.
Toronto’s second-round pick in the 2002 amateur draft had a tremendous college career at Wake Forest. As a junior, Bush was all-conference and MVP of the ACC Tournament, leading the Demon Deacons to the championship. He was even better as a senior, and since turning pro, has impressed everyone in the Toronto organization.
Marty Pevey, his manager in Syracuse, told reporters, "I would love to have five David Bushes."
It was a dark and stormy night. Most of the Blue Jays minor league teams had weather issues as they managed a 2-2 split with 3 rainouts and 1 rain shortened game.
