I am not ashamed to admit it. Kelly Gruber is my favourite position player for the Toronto Blue Jays of all time.  According to my baseball card, Gruber was “hard nosed and a fine athlete.”  Kelly was a 5 tool player who played 6 positions.  The following is my profile on the Greatest Blue Jay Of All Time (and I don’t mean Scott Rolen!) 

Kelly hails …

The Epic Games in Blue Jays History can’t all be good.  In the Jays’ 6th season they were still feeling their way around the league but getting better. Although they ended up sporting an impressive record by today’s standards (89 wins in ’83 yet still finished fourth) they still experienced growing pains.  On August 24, 1983 the Blue Jays rolled …

With the signing of reclamation project John Buck – who has a chance to be good – I am reminded of another reclamation project who turned out to be good: Gregg Zaun.  A quick search in our search bar at the top right of the screen will lead you to many posts fetishizing the “heart” and “grit” and “bleached blond …

So it looks like the first of possibly many bullpen shuffles has taken place and the Jays brass have freed stud Josh Roenicke and called up an ominous character known as Rommie Lewis.

The 6’5″ 230 lbs Lewis was Baltimore’s 4th round pick (113th overall) in the 2001 draft. After working his way up to AA Bowie, Lewis was invited to …

Bright House Field

Following the day’s shenanigans at the Bobby Mattick Complex, I went to an Orioles/Phillies game at the spring training home of the Phillies – Bright House Field.  Built in 2004, Bright House Field is also the palatial home to the Phillies’ minor league affiliate, the Clearwater Threshers.  The ballpark has 7,000 seats with an additional 1,500 spaces …