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Two separate investigations are underway into the leak of a photo of Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna in a holding cell after he was arrested and charged with assault on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, a CCTV camera image that showed the 23-year-old reclining in his cell with legs outstretched emerged in a Global News story. Toronto police Chief Mark […]
Canadian pitcher James Paxton threw a no-hitter for the Seattle Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday in a 5-0 win at the Rogers Centre. The 29-year-old lefty from Ladner, B.C., became the first Canadian to achieve the feat since Dick Fowler of Toronto pitched a no-hitter for the Philadelphia Athletics on Sept. 9, […]
Toronto Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna was arrested and charged Tuesday morning with assault, according to a police report. Police declined to say whether it was domestic assault. Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said the charge is for one count of assault, and provided no further details. The 23-year-old right-handed pitcher was released and is scheduled to appear […]
Aaron Sanchez managed to shut down New York’s power duo of Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton Friday night. But the Blue Jays right-hander took little comfort in that. Sanchez (0-1), in his first start since last July, allowed four runs on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings as Toronto fell 4-2 to the Yankees, starting […]
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 […]
On most betting sites, the Toronto Blue Jays’ over/under for wins this season is set at 81 — exactly .500 baseball. Last season, the team won 76 games amidst a cavalcade of injuries to key players that included top starter Aaron Sanchez and all-star third baseman Josh Donaldson. The thinking goes, then, that with slightly better luck, […]
Third baseman Josh Donaldson and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed Friday to a $ 23 million US contract, the largest one-year deal for an arbitration-eligible player. The 32-year-old, a three-time All-Star, topped the $ 21,625,000, one-year deal covering 2018 agreed to last May by outfielder Bryce Harper and the Washington Nationals. Donaldson, the 2015 AL […]
Gregg Zaun has been fired from Sportsnet due to “inappropriate behaviour and comments” toward female employees. Rick Brace, President of Rogers Media, said in a statement Thursday that the company was terminating the contract of the Blue Jays analyst effective immediately. “This week, we received complaints from multiple female employees at Sportsnet regarding inappropriate behaviour […]
Roy Halladay, one of the best pitchers to wear a Toronto Blue Jays uniform, was killed Tuesday when his small plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a news conference that Halladay’s ICON A5 went down about noon ET Tuesday near Holiday, Fla., just north […]
Kansas City’s Alex Gordon broke Major League Baseball’s season home run record with 12 days to spare, hitting the 5,694th long ball of 2017 on Tuesday night. Gordon’s home run off Toronto’s Ryan Tepera broke a mark set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era. The drive, which drove in the last run […]
