Loading ...Category: ‘Blue Jays Front Office’
Alex Anthopoulos’ Top 5 Moves as Toronto Blue Jays GM (1 & 2)
April 2nd, 2012 at 1:18 PM
In case you missed moves 3-5 in yesterday's column, you can view them here. Rightfully or not, Alex Anthopoulos has developed a reputation as a stealth ninja GM, and one of the best in the game, in baseball circles. Regardless of whether you agree with that assessment, it's difficult to...
The Toronto Blue Jays Would Be Wise to Lock up Brett Lawrie Quickly
March 8th, 2012 at 3:35 PM
The particulars involved in signing a franchise player long term before he reaches free agency include a situation riddled with risks and rewards. The rewards are obvious: you can lock up your player at a discounted rate by avoiding the leverage he gains through free agency. The risk however, is...
The Toronto Blue Jays Front Office Deserves (a Little Bit) More of Our Patience
February 24th, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Toronto's thestar.com published an article yesterday which was suggestive of the notion that our collective patience with the Blue Jays front office should end and that the goodwill that Alex Anthopoulos and co. have built up within the fanbase is due to evaporate. The article is really a testament to...
Toronto Blue Jays State of the Franchise
January 31st, 2012 at 8:09 PM
On Monday evening Toronto Blue Jays President Paul Beeston and general manager Alex Anthopoulos made themselves available to the team's season ticket holders at the Rogers Centre for the organization's annual "State of the Franchise" address. Approximately 1,000 fans were in attendance for a mostly upbeat but at times controversial...
What Exactly is Alex Anthopoulos Doing? (Part 2)
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:53 PM
If you missed part one in this discussion, check it out here. At any given time, almost all major league teams can be categorized neatly into two distinct classifications: rebuilders and contenders. Sometimes teams possess qualities which overlap both areas: they may (like the New York Yankees) be at once...
What Exactly is Alex Anthopoulos Doing?
January 21st, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Most Toronto Blue Jays fans expected some big moves to be made this offseason. By most accounts, the Jays are only one, or at most two, big moves away from contention. With a tremendous core group of players that includes a superstar in Jose Bautista and a budding one in...
Alex Anthopoulos: Toronto Blue Jays Likely Set for 2012
January 12th, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Toronto Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos has declared, surely to the dismay of many of the team's loyal fans, that his offseason tinkering is likely over and that the team you see is the team that will probably take the field for the Jays to begin the 2012 season. Anthopoulos'...
Five New Years Resolutions for the Toronto Blue Jays
December 28th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
Staddling the line between contender and pretender, here are five things that the Toronto Blue Jays can do to elevate themselves to the next level in 2012. Even achieving some of these resolutions may be enough to vault them into contention, but there's no reason not to dream big with...
Assessing the Toronto Blue Jays Payroll Obligations
November 26th, 2011 at 8:36 AM
Few people recognize, when rattling off a list of “big market” teams in MLB that can afford a lofty payroll, that Toronto is the 4th largest market in the game and that the three larger than it – New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago – all have two teams.
***PHOTO1***
While hockey...
