Jays sign Canadian OF Adam Loewen to a minor league deal. Insurance. Another player who was with Triple A Buffalo last year. http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=413514
The Toronto Blue Jays have signed Canadian outfielder Adam Loewen to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training.
Our bullpen is finally COMPLETE. Darren "Black Magic" Oliver to officially return to the Blue Jays for 2013 season. If you can't beat them, re-join them. I'm so glad AA didn't give in to his and his agent's ludicrous demands. http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/201..._jays_in_2013/
Yeah, his agent came off as a jerk through the whole thing. Glad AA called his buff, you don't just restructure a guy like Oliver's contract because he had a decent season. Pretty positive Oliver wouldn't give money back if he had a bad one.
There are still rumblings they're after another reliever but I think the bullpen as constructed is pretty formidable. I'd be fairly comfortable entering the season with this:
CL Janssen
SU Santos
SU Oliver
MR Lincoln
MR Delabar
MR Rogers/Jeffress
LR Cecil
LR Happ
Just FYI, Jose Reyes will be introduced at a press conference today at 2pm MST/1pm PST. It will be shown on Sportsnet.
I saw highlights of it on SportsCentre...I couldn't keep the smile off my face when Reyes started grinning and bouncing up and down when AA said he was his favorite player to watch in the league.
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Yeah, Reyes is a pretty happy guy, smiles all the time. I'm with you Mach, when AA was giving him props and Reyes gave the two thumbs up I started laughing.
Rarely is Alex Anthopoulos as publicly gleeful as he was sitting on the dais alongside Jose Reyes, unveiling the superstar he had long coveted and finally acquired in the Toronto Blue Jays' transformative November blockbuster with the Miami Marlins.
Anthopoulos revealed Thursday that not long before he pulled off the 12-player deal that landed Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle and Emilio Bonifacio, he nearly pulled off a massive trade with another team he wouldn't name.
The blockbuster that wasn't came undone right around the Oct. 31 deadline for clubs to exercise player options for 2013, he said, and would have added roughly the same $44 million in 2013 salary the Marlins deal did, minus the payroll implications in subsequent years.
Another change of philosiphy from AA. Wasn't he against signing arb. eligile players to one year deals, saying instead that he either would sign longer term deals or go to arb.?
