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Only comparable for the Jays was Alomar, he retired in 2005, jersey # retired in 2011 along with his HoF induction. Alomar and Doc are the only two #'s retired by the Jays. The rest are just level of excellence. Kinda seems like the Jays wait until there's a HoF announcement before they retire a #.

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17 Blue Jay players have worn #32, Most notably of course the Doc, Roy Halladay from 1999 through 2009. The first player to wear it was Don Kirkwood in 1978 and the last player to wear #32 for the Jays was Scott Diamond in 2016. The # is now retired of course, because Roy Halladay was the best pitcher in Blue Jays history, but sucked at flying while high.

21 Players have worn #33 for the Jays

34 days until pitchers and catcher report... so.... pretty much yeah. Tigers are bringing in the CF fence, and making their OF fences shorter this season too. That will be a nice 15 second convo

Well, his quote didn't say he would be the DH most of the time, just that he would mostly DH, meaning the majority of his PAs will come as a DH. It doesnt say how many PAs he was led to believe he would get. I suspect he's really just a hedge against a Jansen and/or Kirk injury, which seems inevitable.

For all the teams crying poor: MLB sets new record for league revenue in 2022, pulling in estimated $10.8 billion Much of MLB's revenue stems from TV deals https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2023/01/10/mlb-sets-new-revenue-record-exceeding-108-billion-for-2022/?sh=5dfc1cdc77ee

I'm sure glad they mutilated me. Who the f*** would want to go through that kind of pain later on in life when you could remember it?

Tapia was DFA, Biggio wasn't. Seems they learned from their mistake.

Reattaching foreskin is the new black.

I knew it... you finally got your Botox done?

Naw, dont you remember? AJ Burnett is and always will be a .500 pitcher.

Where do you see this?

I think the run differential will be the telling stat this season. Runs scored should be relatively close to last year, but the run prevention should be markedly better. Remember, wRC+ is relative to league average if the run environment goes up, the Jays could feasibly score about the same amount of runs and still drop in wRC+ depending on the rest of the league.

That’s just it, Vlad needs to get that it doesn’t need to be him doing everything. He hasn’t got there yet.

Probably trying to decide if he wants to extend his career another year or two as a reliever, or just pack it in.

Could be, but if its within 5 points... kind of push really.

Elevation... 5 feet

For total run output, I'd say it will relatively the same. However, I expect a more consistent offense that doesn't go to sleep for a week to 10 days at a time, then goes red hot for 2 series.

Aren’t the Jays already at 40 on the roster? Who gets the DFA to make room?

Quick follow up , I found a full season recap from that season online at http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/1966_30i.html My dad’s rookie season with them was in 1967 and he played until 1969.

posted as Neilburg Sask is my hometown and his short stay there was still talked about years later. Population at that time would have been .. like 300 at best. It's about 400 now. R.I.P. Bill Campbell Former Expo pitched in Neilburg, Saskatchewan and served close to a year in the Vietnam War By Danny Gallagher Canadian Baseball Network Bill Campbell began his adult baseball career at age 19 with the Neilburg Monarchs of the Northern Saskatchewan league in 1966. And he finished his big-league career in 1987 with another Canadian team, the Montreal Expos. He's the only known Expos player to serve in the Vietnam War. He joined the U.S. Army about a year after he left Neilburg and was in Vietnam for just under 12 months on jungle patrol and as a radio/teletype operator. Soup Campbell was one of the finest relief pitchers in major-league history. He's the only player in the majors to record at least 17 wins and 17 saves in the same season, a feat he accomplished with the Minnesota Twins in 1976, going 17-5 with 20 saves in a league-leading 78 appearances in 167.2 innings. Only Pittsburgh Pirates’ ace reliever and former Expo ElRoy Face had a season with more wins without a start when he marvelled with a 18-1 record in 1959. Campbell, 74, died Jan. 6 after spending more than two weeks in hospice care in the Chicago area where he lived. He had been suffering from cancer. His wife Linda called the Twins' Fantasy Camp headquarters in Fort Myers, Florida to report his death. At the tail end of his career at age 38, Campbell caught on with the Expos, signing a contract during spring training on March 6, 1987. He made the roster out of West Palm Beach and pitched in 10 regular-season games with middling results before he was released May 1. His last strikeout victim in his long career was Gary Carter in Campbell's final outing on April 30. Campbell's stint with in Neilburg was memorable. He flew into Edmonton from California on June 18 and then he was picked up at the Husky bus stop by teammates Glen Brockhoff and Larry Flecik and a friend Glen Hinch in Lloydminster which straddles the Saskatchewan/Alberta border. "Bill didn't have a dime in his pocket. We paid for his hamburger and a Coca Cola. Then, we had a few beers at the Neilburg Hotel, the only bar in town. It was a Saturday night,'' Brockhoff said. The next day, June 19, Campbell made his debut with Neilburg and it was a memorable one. He fired a no-hitter, one batter short of a perfect game in a seven-inning game, the nightcap of a doubleheader. He struck out 10 to lead the Monarchs to a 5-0 victory over North Battleford. Jay Johnston reached on an error in the seventh to break up the perfect game. Campbell finished that season with a 5-3 record and a 3.46 ERA. He also batted .270 with four homers and 13 RBI in 23 games. At the 1966 Saskatoon Exhibition Tournament, Campbell fanned 14 and hit two triples as Neilburg won the championship game. "Campbell was 6-foot-3, real slim and he could throw hard. He had a great slider and curveball,'' Flecik said. When Brockhoff saw Campbell pitch that no-hitter, he knew right then and there he had major-league stuff. "Oh, he was an awful good American in this town,'' Brockhoff said. "What impressed me in batting practice was when he was in the outfield. He was unbelievable. He'd catch fly balls behind his back. He was really good. If the ball was hit over the fence, he'd jump over the short, wooden fence and catch the ball.'' Several years after leaving Vietnam, Campbell was signed as a free agent by the Twins at a Dennys restaurant in Ponoma, Calif., the same Dennys where Bob James was signed by the Expos in 1976. After leaving the Twins, Campbell spent time with the Red Sox, Cubs, Tigers, Phillies, Cardinals and the Expos. "We are going to miss him at Twins Fantasy Camp this week. He was our coach who led all the stretching exercises and got the campers in shape on day one. Such a good person,'' said Campbell's Florida friend Chad Yoder. "We start tomorrow (Jan. 7). We will have our banquet and of course, announce that (sad news) at the banquet. I'm going to challenge all my friends and teammates to bring in a can of Campbell Soup to put in his locker and then I will donate it to a needy organization after the camp in his honor.'' Campbell is survived by his wife Linda, a professor of psychology at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, and three children. Danny Gallagher's story about Campbell contains information obtained from a chapter in his new Expos book Around The Horn, which is due for release in mid-January.

Most of the contenders are large market teams that not want the headache of a media scrum every night asking about Bauer nonstop to try and get a “gotcha” headline. Braves and Jays are out because they’re owners are publicly traded corps that won’t even bother to sniff at a controversy like that. Dodgers are out. Neither New York team needs that circus. He’s not a true Cardinal by any stretch. No chance in Seattle. The last thing Houston needs is another reason to be hated. Sam Diego has the Tatis Jr headache already, Phillies don’t seem like they’d want to upset their team chemistry. Maybe Tampa or Cleveland?

Unless there’s numerous teams waiting to beat down his door, there would be no reason for a team to try and jump the DFA queue and actually trade for him though. I’d be willing to bet that Bauer and his agent know exactly which teams, if any, are even remotely interested and which ones they’ve told they’re interested in playing for. It’s probably a very short list