King

Cash must have dinner reservations for 9:00.

Tellez dinger.

Hutch starts for Buffalo tonight. Lansings on MiLB.tv

Greene is getting torched. 5IP 9H 4ER 3BB 1K (2hr)

http://jaysjournal.com/2016/04/28/blue-jays-converting-6-foot-10-ncaa-basketball-champion-to-pitcher/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Hidden away in Dunedin, Florida participating in the Toronto Blue Jays extended spring training is a recent signing unlike any other. Tyler Olander comes to the Blue Jays a decorated NCAA athlete, having won Division One national championships in both 2011 and 2014 with the University of Connecticut before playing professionally in Lithuania and Spain. Standing 6-foot-10, Olander immediately becomes one of the tallest players in all of professional baseball. That size was his most imposing trait with the Huskies, where he appeared in 135 games including 59 starts. For the basketball team. Olander had recently come to the realization that his potential in professional basketball was limited, so he decided to contact Andy Baylock, the coach of UConn’s baseball team up until 2003 who just happened to be a family friend. Baylock and Olander have worked to build his mechanics from the ground up, and Baylock, now 77, was immediately impressed with how quickly the tall left-hander adapted. “When I saw how much he wanted this, I said, ‘I’m going to be right there with you,'” he told Dom Amore of the Hartford Courant. After building up to pitching full bullpen sessions after Olander fully overcame a foot fracture he suffered in Spain, Baylock convinced a former player from his UConn coaching days to come take a look at his new project. Toronto Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker. “I was cautiously optimistic,” Walker told the Courant. “Because I know Andy Baylock and have so much respect for his knowledge of pitching. And I knew Tyler had played for UConn, played for Jim Calhoun, the national championships, so I knew the work ethic would be there. I was curious.” Olander has reportedly been throwing in the mid-80s with his fastball, a number that will climb as his body familiarizes itself with the motions of the sport, and is also working on a slider. Blue Jays assistant general manager Andrew Tinnish is pleased with the raw pieces Toronto has to work with, and Walker continues to be impressed by his early reports out of Dunedin. “When you look at his size,” Tinnish told Amore, “his athleticism, his competitiveness, the work ethic, he has a fresh arm … it’s a baseball project we were interested in. It was a low-risk, no-brainer.” Tinish is right, given the potential upside for such a minimal investment. These “raw athlete” signings are something more familiar to the National Football League, especially with great tight ends like Tony Gonzalez or Jimmy Graham, both of whom come from basketball backgrounds. The Blue Jays have recently signed a football player of their own in former University of South Florida quarterback Bobby Eveld (formerly a 50th round pick of the New York Mets in 2010). As Major League organizations work to leave no stone unturned in their search for talent, these gifted athletes from other sports with baseball in their background, most likely at a high school level, could become a more common target. All it will take is for one to hit, and there won’t be a team in baseball that doesn’t try to follow. Olander’s maturity and mental approach on the field will be critical as the organization looks move slowly with him. He found himself as the centre of attention for the wrong reasons twice at UConn, once for an arrest in Florida for trespassing while on spring break, the other for a DUI that was eventually dropped due to a lack of evidence. In his new baseball career, Olander is starting from scratch, relatively speaking. If all goes according to plan, he could potentially see some innings in short-season ball later this summer.

Depends on how serious his knee/leg injury is. Maybe 2018 if everything goes right.

Sean Reid Foley 3IP 4H 1ER 0BB 5K Dunedin when Hollon is back from suspension?

Jaysfan2014 isn't the same guy. Dogg isn't even the most severely disturbed troll on the board anymore. LTR/BigJohn has made hundreds of accounts, upwards of 5 in a single day. Very psychotic.

Tepera up lol. Flag has been thrown

Its over.

Atta boy Gibbons.

Blue Jays Moves ‏@BlueJaysMoves Apr 19 Apr 18: Lansing Lugnuts (A) place RHP Jonathan Harris on the temporarily inactive list. #bluejays TEMPORARY INACTIVE LIST- This list is used only during the season for short absences and may be used at the team's discretion for bereavement leave, family events which require a player to be away from his team, or other non-injury related reasons.. Players placed on the temporary inactive list must remain on the list for a minimum of three consecutive days.

You bastard. Same order too

Perdomo: 4IP 3H 0ER 2BB 7K New Lansing 3 Francisco Rios Angel Perdomo Sean Reid Foley Anyone know what happened to Harris? Hasn't started since April 14.

If you mean wasn't protected for the rule 5 draft yeah. If he keeps it up he'll have to be protected in the offseason for sure.

bruh

I heard that was a good pitch.

Angel Perdomo 2ip 1h 0er 1bb 4k Perdomo fast riser.

5/12 against Quintana bro

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Mike Wilner ‏@Wilnerness590 4h4 hours ago Watched Chris Colabello interviewed by @SNETCampbell - really want to give him benefit of doubt. But it's really difficult. #Bluejays #Jays Nick G @MrNGTV @Wilnerness590 @SNETCampbell All I know, or rather want to believe is that he took them unintentionally. Mike Wilner ‏@Wilnerness590 5m5 minutes ago "Want to believe" is the key part of your statement. I think we all want to believe that. #Bluejays #Jays ‏@MediocreNinja @Wilnerness590 You can't not root for the guy even if he made the mistake. Just hope he comes back and performs better than ever. Mike Wilner ‏@Wilnerness590 2m2 minutes ago Fair, but taking an oral anabolic steroid on purpose isn't a "mistake". If he did it, it wasn't a mistake.

27. Francisco Rios, RHP, age 20 (DOB: 5/6/95), last year: unranked Rios was signed in July 2012 as a 17 year old international free agent from Mexico. Over the last three years, he's worked his way from the Dominican Summer League in 2013, stateside for 2014 all the way up to Bluefield, before spending 2015 in Vancouver's starting rotation where he was one of the few bright spots in pretty dismal 2015. In 2015, Rios posted a medicore 4.27 ERA, but his peripherals were better as he posted a 3.28 FIP on the back of 59 strikeouts and 25 strikeouts while allowing just one home runs. He worked with a fastball in the low 90s, touching 93-94 with a slurvy breaking ball as his primary secondary pitch. In 2016, he should move up to Lansing and work in the starting rotation, and we'll get a better idea of what he can do in full season ball. Rios is very much a lottery ticket, but if you're looking for a guy to come out of nowhere, he's a candidate. His ranking this highly is frankly primarily a reflection of the vastly reduced depth in the system. http://www.bluebirdbanter.com/2016/2/5/10922490/the-2016-bluebird-banter-top-40-prospects-26-30 Going into this season

I don't think age is a huge deal, he's not young for the level but he's not old either.

Stroman sucks

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