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Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton Favoured In Home Run Derby

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: July 11, 2016

If we’re being honest, it’s the slowest sports week of the year with Major League Baseball on its All-Star break. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to wager on. As usual, MLB stages it’s Home Run Derby on Monday night, this year from San Diego’s Petco Park — which is considered pitcher-friendly. Pretty sure that...

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Blue Jays Climbing, Cubs Leading On 2016 World Series Futures

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: June 17, 2016

There has been a lot of angst over the Toronto Blue Jays this season. The offense hasn’t been nearly as productive as last year’s team that led Major League Baseball by far in runs (891) and homers (232). The pitching staff isn’t quite as good, either, but that was to be expected when David Price...

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Toronto Blue Jays Go All-In with David Price and Troy Tulowitzki

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 3, 2015

The Toronto Blue Jays are legit contenders in the AL East, but are they a good bet down the stretch? Whatever happens between now and October, nobody will deny that the Toronto Blue Jays gave themselves their best chance to win a World Series since 1993. The Jays pulled off a couple of blockbuster deals...

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MLB Spring Training: Odds Put Big Expectations on Toronto Blue Jays

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 17, 2015

Two years ago, after the Toronto Blue Jays spent gobs of money in the offseason, they headed into Spring Training as Major League Baseball’s World Series favorite. After that didn’t go as planned and last year wasn’t much better, the Jays are no longer at the top of the odds board, but they’re not all...

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MLB Trade Deadline Live Updates: A's Clear World Series Favorite

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 31, 2014

Today’s Major League Baseball trade deadline is shaping up to be an arms race with a number of World Series contenders stocking their cupboards in preparation of the stretch run. Before we get into all the trades and analysis, first check out Sports Interaction’s World Series odds. Oakland Athletics   +450 Detroit Tigers   +600 Los Angeles...

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Is Peyton Manning Getting Snubbed in Latest NFL MVP Odds?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 24, 2014

The reigning NFL MVP, Peyton Manning, is coming off a 55-touchdown season and should break the all-time record for touchdown passes this season if he stays healthy, but that doesn’t mean he’s the favorite to win the most valuable player award again this year. Sports Interaction lists Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy as the...

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Toronto Blue Jays Need the Real R.A. Dickey Right Now

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 23, 2014

When the Toronto Blue Jays acquired R.A. Dickey from the New York Mets two years ago, they thought they were getting a big-game pitcher they could count on if they had their backs against the wall. Tonight the Jays will be looking for Dickey to come through on his end of the bargain against the...

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Blue Jays Could Help Bring Baseball Back to Montreal

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: September 10, 2013

Montreal baseball fans will be treated to two MLB exhibition games between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets ahead of the 2014 season.  With the Toronto Blue Jays booking the pair of preseason games against the New York Mets at Olympic Stadium, it may be a small step, but a very necessary one...

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The end is near for Toronto Blue Jays: JP Arencibia quits Twitter

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 23, 2013

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Toronto Blue Jays, outspoken catcher JP Arencibia had to go and quit Twitter. Yes, that’s the sound of 145,000 or so of his followers groaning in unison. Arencibia might go over the line at times, like when he jumped all over Sportsnet sportscasters Dirk...

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Hit or stick? Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos vs. trade deadline

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 19, 2013

Throw all the excuses aside and forget everything that happened in the first half of the MLB season. Right now, all that matters for the Toronto Blue Jays is the next 13 days on the schedule starting with Friday night’s matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays. Toronto enters the second half four games under .500...

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Making a case for Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie at second base

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 11, 2013

The Toronto Blue Jays will soon get a boost to their lineup with Brett Lawrie returning from his sprained ankle, but the big question is where he might play when he returns. Right now, while manager John Gibbons won’t come right out and say it, you can bet Lawrie will be trading in his third...

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Jays’ JP Arencibia should lay off Sportsnet TV commentators

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 4, 2013

Catcher JP Arencibia says there is major tension between the Toronto Blue Jays’ locker room and the team’s Sportsnet commentators Gregg Zaun and Dirk Hayhurst. He wasn’t shy about getting into the details of the rift in an interview with Toronto radio station The Fan 590 on Thursday either. “It’s tough to hear people like...

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Blue Jays out to extend streak vs. Canadian Jeff Francis

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: June 18, 2013

The Toronto Blue Jays have won six straight games and are playing their best baseball of the season despite a rash of significant injuries. After going just 10-17 in April with a healthy pitching staff, the Jays have won eight of 10 this month with two starters on the shelf. When you dig a deep...

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Jays manager John Gibbons has hands full with Brett Lawrie

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: May 27, 2013

In many ways, Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie is the kind of player every baseball manager wants to have in his lineup. Lawrie’s young and exciting. He’s a five-tool guy that plays the game hard. His potential is through the roof, but the problem is, his antics are might just make John Gibbons...

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Montreal names street after Hall of Famer, Expos star Gary Carter

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: May 21, 2013

The late Gary Carter last wore a Montreal Expos jersey back in 1992, but the impact he made on Montreal baseball fans lives on. The city will honor the Hall of Fame catcher Tuesday by naming a city street after him. Carter died in February after a battle with brain cancer. He played for the...

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The Fix Is In: Clay Buchholz and the Spitball Issue

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: May 3, 2013

Take a close look at the glove arm of Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz in the image accompanying this story. Does it look shiny? Does his sleeve look like it has a wet, greasy spot? That’s because it’s probably not perspiration. The TV cameras caught not only Buchholz’s arm but the furtive gestures...

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Chicago Cubs Owner Threatens Move From Wrigley Field

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: May 1, 2013

Baseball purists and historians might want to sit down for this one. Wrigley Field has been the home of the Cubs since 1916, but club chairman Tom Ricketts says the team will move to a new location if approval is not granted for more outfield signs — including a huge new video scoreboard. Originally known...

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Ricky Romero's Struggles Mirror Jays' Poor Start

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: April 29, 2013

It’s been a rocky beginning for the Toronto Blue Jays, and nowhere is it more obvious than in the ranks of the starting pitchers. It’s already an old story how the Blue Jays’ starters have been pounded in the early innings of ballgames. Maybe help is on the way with former staff ace Ricky Romero....

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Blue Jays Searching For Answers After Reyes Injury

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: April 17, 2013

It’s still only April, and the Toronto Blue Jays are in trouble. Or are they? No one said winning a World Series was easy, despite all the pre-season hype and oddsmakers who touted the Blue Jays as world champions. Now they have a significant hole to deal with at one of the most important positions...

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What In the World Went Wrong With Roy Halladay?

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: April 4, 2013

There is no way to sugar-coat it. His first start of 2013 for the Philadelphia Phillies was not one that anyone would ever associate with a player like Roy Halladay (pictured), who could be considered one of the 10 best pitchers of the last 30 years. But there is no denying that stats line. “Rocky”...