Each and every year leading up to a non-waiver trade deadline my mind has flashbacks to July 31, 1993. That day, the Blue Jays traded former No. 1 pick Steve Karsay and OF Jose Herrera to the Oakland Athletics for future Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson. While the trade was being finalized — Henderson had […]
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Blue Jays trade J.A. Happ to Yankees for Brandon Drury, prospect
Toronto general manager Ross Atkins says competitive baseball teams are increasingly less willing to part with top prospects when they tool up for a playoff run. So while the Blue Jays didn't get a blue-chip minor leaguer when they traded veteran left-hander J.A. Happ to the New York Yankees, Atkins was pleased to get a […]
Blue Jays tap J.A. Happ to start opening day vs. Yankees
There was a time in J.A. Happ’s career when he wouldn’t have been considered to start an opening day game. And even if he was, he wouldn’t have remembered. “The 2011 and 2012 years are something that I try to suppress a little bit,” the Toronto left-hander said with a laugh when a reporter asked […]
Happ strikes out 10 as Jays shut down Chisox
Pitching in his home state for the first time since 2013, J.A. Happ looked more like the 20-game winner from a year ago than he has lately. The left-hander had a season-high 10 strikeouts in seven innings, matching his longest start of the season, as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 […]