A.J. Burnett turns 48 today. A.J. had a nice career, 17 seasons, a 164-157 record, 3.99 ERA in 435 games, 430 starts. He ...

Billy Wagner’s on the Hall of Fame ballot for the tenth and last time. He was on 73.8% of the ballots last year, following ...

Chase Utley is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the second time. He was on 28.8% of the ballots last year. Not bad for the ...

First, he was a Rickey. No one I knew had that first name, much less went with the whole “Rickey” thing. Just him and me. I identified very strongly with that. He was not ashamed to be Rickey. That ...

David Cone turns 62 today. Cone had two short stints with the Blue Jays. The Jays traded for him in 1992 at the end of August ...

It is New Year's Day, so I’ve considered resolutions and wondered if others still do them. I generally make them, but the ...

We made it to the end of the list! Yay! It is Ben Zobrist’s first time on the Hall of Fame ballot. Zobrist played for 14 ...

Because, I realized, the esoterica associated with NFL Football make it a judgement call so often that there’s almost no way ...

Happy birthday, Esteban. It is also Jesse Carlson’s 44th birthday. Jesse was the lefty out of the pen for three seasons with ...

I’m not thrilled with the lack of news coming from the Jays. And I’ve had enough of rumours that don’t turn into anything. So ...

Teoscar Hernandez signed yesterday, as did Corbin Burnes. Both deals look entirely reasonable. Teo will get $66 million over ...

B.J. Ryan turns 49 today. Looking at his picture, I see that he looks like a former neighbour of mine, Scott. Off-topic, but ...