Well, with this crazy offseason where free agents are now getting desperate the Jays just signed another reliever - RHP Tyler Clippard (a NRI). Wonder if the Jays will get a few more cheap bargains in the upcoming weeks.

This would've been really something about six years ago...

Because scrolling through 250+ comments on a phone sized screen occasionally gets old, on occasion

So we have a few Jays up for good awards this year...

I haven't been following the team as closely as usual. Anything interesting happen?

Yup, he's gone. 3 years $55 mil with a $25 mil option ($5 mil buyout). If year 4 isn't taken then he gets a total of $60 mil. If all 4 years happen he makes $80 mil just like the Jays offered.

Yup, between beating Baltimore and going to Texas with an overflowing thread threatening to take over the world.

Well, our season ending thread is overloaded so lets have a between series thread.

We're sneaking up on the halfway point of the 2016 season and of course well aware of what's happening with the local squadron and their rivals. But what about the rest of the league?

The Dodgers are in town for a 3 game set. Jays have bad luck getting the 2 best starters the Dodgers have going this weekend in Kershaw & Maeda (both over 200 for ERA+) while missing the 2 weakest Wood & Kazmir both with ERA+'s under 80.

The old thread is getting a bit long in the tooth now, so lets start with a clean slate.

It was time.

It's spring training. Michael Saunders hit two home runs and Darwin Barney drove in five runs in a game, which is really fantastic!

Except....

... you know.

When the trees gain colour as they sway in the breeze
When slivers of grass poke out from a trodden cold mud

There's really not a whole lot happening...