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| Blue Jays sign P Frasor, two others |
MLB Baseball |
01/20/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to terms with pitchers Jason Frasor and Jeremy Accardo, and infielder Jose Bautista on one-year deals on Tuesday to avoid salary arbitration. Right-handed pitcher Frasor, 31, inked a $1.45 million contract after going 1-2 with a 4.18 ERA in 49 relief appearances last season while allowing only 36 hits in 47.1 innings. The Chicago native has spent his entire five-year big-league career north of the border with the Jays, tallying 268 strikeouts in 2 |
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| World Baseball Classic provisional rosters announced |
MLB Baseball |
01/20/2009 |
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| ament will feature the same format as the 2006 WBC, with the United States starting in a pool with Canada, Italy and Venezuela in a double-elimination round robin. All first round games for the Americans will be played at the Rogers Centre, home the Toronto Blue Jays. The top two teams from each of the four pools will advance to the second round, which is performed in the same double-elimination format as the first round. The top two teams from the two pools will advance to a single elimination tournament to eve |
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| Blue Jays avoid arbitration with League |
MLB Baseball |
01/19/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays avoided salary arbitration with right-hander Brandon League, signing the reliever to a one- year, $640,000 deal. League was 1-2 last season with a save and a 2.18 ERA in 31 relief appearances last season. He allowed just 28 hits in 33 innings with 15 walks and 23 strikeouts. Over the course of five seasons, all with the Blue Jays, the 25-year-old League is 4-4 with six saves and a 4.81 ERA in 101 games. The Blue Jays still have five arbitration eligible playe |
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| Brewers avoid arbitration with Bush |
MLB Baseball |
01/15/2009 |
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| h on Thursday and signed the right-hander to a one-year deal. Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. Bush compiled a 9-10 record in 2008 with a 4.18 earned run average over 31 games, 29 of which were starts. The second-round pick of the Toronto Blue Jays in 2002 owns a lifetime mark of 43-46 with a 4.45 ERA in 139 career games (132 starts) with Toronto and Milwaukee. The Wake Forest product was acquired by the Brewers in a 2005 Winter Meetings trade with Toronto. Milwaukee, which lost to Philadelphi |
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| Jays sign C Barrett to minor league deal |
MLB Baseball |
12/30/2008 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays signed veteran catcher Michael Barrett to a minor league contract on Tuesday. Barrett appeared in just 30 games last year with the San Diego Padres. A freak incident in early July ended with him having a broken nose after he fouled a ball off his face. He did not return after suffering the injury and finished the season with a .202 average with two home runs and nine RBI. In 1,047 career games with Montreal, the Chicago Cubs and San Diego, the 32- year-old ha |
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| Cubs sign Gaudin |
MLB Baseball |
12/13/2008 |
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| RA in 185 career games (50 starts) with Tampa Bay, Toronto, Oakland and the Cubs. Chicago also avoided salary arbitration with left-handed pitcher Neal Cotts, agreeing to a one-year contract, while doing the same with outfielder Reed Johnson. Cotts, who turns 29 on March 25, went 0-2 with a 4.29 ERA in 50 games for the Cubs in 2008. Signed by the Cubs last March 25 after being released by the Toronto Blue Jays, Johnson batted .303 with 21 doubles, six home runs and 50 RBI in 109 games with the Cubs last season. |
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| Blue Jays sign Clement |
MLB Baseball |
12/12/2008 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - The Toronto Blue Jays signed pitcher Matt Clement to a minor league contract on Friday with an invitation to spring training. Clement, 34, has not pitched in the majors since 2006 because of shoulder problems. The Butler Township, Pennsylvania native signed with the Cardinals last winter, but was released in August after appearing in 16 contests over three minor league levels. Clement is 87-86 with a 4.47 earned run average in nine big league seasons with San Diego, Florida, the C |
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| Tony Kubek named Frick Award winner |
MLB Baseball |
12/09/2008 |
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| mary broadcast in 1969 and worked with play-by-play partners Jim Simpson, 1984 Frick winner Curt Gowdy, 1991 Frick winner Joe Garagiola and Bob Costas through 1989. He also worked on local television broadcasts for The MySportsbook and CTV for the Toronto Blue Jays from 1977-89, before concluding his career with the Yankees and the MSG Network from 1990-94. Kubek, the AL Rookie of the Year in 1957 and a four-time All-Star with the Yankees, broadcast 11 World Series and 14 American League Championship Series fo |
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| Indians sign Ohka |
MLB Baseball |
12/05/2008 |
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| Cleveland, OH (MySportsbook) - The Cleveland Indians have signed right- hander Tomo Ohka to a minor league contract. Ohka hasn't pitched in the majors since 2007 when he went 2-5 with a 5.79 earned run average in 10 starts for the Toronto Blue Jays. Last year he spent the year at Triple-A Charlotte after signing with the Chicago White Sox organization during spring training Over nine major league seasons, Ohka has compiled a 50-63 mark with a 4.14 ERA in 184 games, including 172 starts, for Boston, the Montre |
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| Cards sign lefty reliever Miller |
MLB Baseball |
12/03/2008 |
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| 209 average and struck out 30 of the 91 he faced. Tampa Bay chose Miller's $400,000 buyout earlier this month rather than pick up his $2 million option. Miller broke into the majors as a starter with the Detroit Tigers in 1996, but has spent the majority of his career coming out of the bullpen. In 519 games (five starts), Miller has amassed a 14-14 mark to go along with 10 saves and a 4.43 ERA, while pitching for the Tigers, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays and Rays. |
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