Anthony Gose Profile

Today the Blue Jays traded 1B prospect Brett Wallace for OF prospect Anthony Goes. Here’s a look at what they acquired in Gose.

Anthony Gose was selected by the Phillies in the second round (51st overall) in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.Gose is a player who thrills scouts, despite a unimpressive line of .266/.324/.393 in 88 Florida State League games. He’s …

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January 5th in Baseball History, Baseball Lore, Matthias, Sabermetrics, Toronto Blue Jays, Versus by Matthias Koster .

Best Toronto Blue Jay P – Dave Stieb vs Roy Halladay

Better Jay Pitcher – Dave Stieb or Roy Halladay?

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Common Traits

Started MLB careers at 21
Effectively (due to Stieb’s arm injury) ended their Toronto careers at the age of 32.
Each have over five all-star appearances
Led the AL in innings pitched at least twice in their careers
Tagged with rare and elusive term ‘True Ace’
Both were perfectionists, although Halladay had a bit more tact …

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November 30th in 2009 season, Business of Baseball, Callum, Sabermetrics, Toronto Blue Jays, Transactions by Callum Hughson .

Scutaro’s 2009 Season Not An Outlier?

Almost a month ago TSN’s Daan De Kerpel penned an article on why the Jays shouldn’t re-sign Marco Scutaro. The crux of the argument is that Scutaro is coming off a career-year (or ‘outlier’ season being the new buzzword thanks to Malcolm Gladwell) and the Jays shouldn’t resign him because he can’t expect to maintain that level of production. De …