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 […]
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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 […]