Former Toronto Blue Jays reliever Mike Timlin still has the last out ball from the 1992 World Series that his Blue Jays won 31 years ago today. It is one of the most sought-after items in Canadian baseball history and would likely fetch five or maybe six digits at auction.
Read MoreThirty years ago today, Toronto Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter belted the second walk-off, World Series-winning home run in major league history. It’s an unforgettable moment in Canadian baseball history - one that wouldn’t have happened, as Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott recounts in this 2015 article, if Carter had signed with the Kansas City Royals, as the outfielder almost did at the 1992 winter meetings.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston is one of the former managers, executives or umpires on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot that was announced on Thursday.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays’ prized pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann has been named Arizona Fall League Pitcher of the Week.
Read MoreRance Mulliniks always looked like the smartest player on the field.
And many of his former Toronto Blue Jays teammates will tell you that he was.
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently caught up with Mulliniks to talk about the former third baseman’s baseball career.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays All-Star left-hander Ricky Romero is headed back to school to complete a Sociology degree at Cal State Fullerton. The now 38-year-old, who threw his last MLB pitch 10 years ago, is doing it largely to serve as an example for his three children. Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge recently spoke with Romero.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays legendary right-hander Dave Stieb has been elected to the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew can confirm that Toronto Blue Jays legendary catcher Ernie Whitt is still “a big deal in Canada.” He recently caught up with the current Baseball Canada national team manager and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
Read More“Only one man in Ontario really qualifies as a true friend of Josh Donaldson’s.
And that’s Tyler Johnstone.
The two played in the same Auburn Tigers infield in 2005 and 2006.
Johnstone grew up playing for the Erin Mills A’s in Mississauga, then the Ontario Blue Jays, Connors State College, Purdue University before transferring to Auburn where the friendship blossomed.
Despite all the bus trips, good times and bad times they experienced together, friendship has its limits. Donaldson basically banned Johnstone from Rogers Centre for Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers. “
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays reliever Jay Jackson and his fiancée Sam Bautista have been celebrating milestones of their strong, newborn son, JR, who was born at under 25 weeks and remains in a Salt Lake City hospital. Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge recently spoke to Jackson about his son.
Read MoreLike his father, Greg, before him, Connor O’Halloran (Mississauga, Ont.) was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. The young left-hander has since been assigned to the Blue Jays’ Low-A affiliate in Dunedin. Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts recently caught up with him.
Read More“Thirty teams passed on Bryce Arnold during June’s MLB draft, before the Toronto Blue Jays signed the middle infielder from Grimsby, Ont., to a free agent contract and sent him to Low-A Dunedin.
Jimmy Richardson, VP and director of baseball operations with Arnold’s alma mater, the Fieldhouse Pirates, has every confidence Arnold will rise far above Dunedin before his playing days are done.
“After Bryce signed, I said, ‘That guy’s going to be a big leaguer,’” Richardson told Canadian Baseball Network.”
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott caught up with Jose Bautista, a superstar he covered for many years in Toronto, on Friday, prior to the former slugger being added to the Toronto Blue Jays Level of Excellence the following day.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Jordan Romano, Tyler O’Neill, Joey Votto, James Paxton, Nick Pivetta, Rowan Wick and Rickey Henderson.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays right-hander and Vancouver native Scott Richmond reflects on his time playing with Jose Bautista and Scott Rolen.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays have announced that José Bautista will sign a one-day contract with the club this afternoon to officially retire as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Read MoreJose Bautista’s name will be added to the Toronto Blue Jays’ Level of Excellence in a pre-game ceremony on Saturday.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays have purchased the contract of right-hander Trevor Clifton from the independent Frontier League’s Ottawa Titans.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays have added another Canadian into the organization, as right-hander Rowan Wick (North Vancouver, B.C.) has been signed to a minor league deal.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays have acquired shortstop Paul DeJong from the St. Louis Cardinals.
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