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“The Trade” According to Taiwan

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As you’ve probably heard by now, the Toronto Blue Jays pulled off a [insert superlative here] trade that basically sends a large portion of South Florida’s tax base to the GTA. Get the who’s going where here or, if you prefer, get the whole sordid story courtesy of the skilled … Read More

Holy WAR with Jose Bautista

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WAR: What is it good for? Well, for starters, WAR (wins above replacement) is an immensely useful baseball stat that allows you to compare the value of players based on how many wins they generated for their team above that of a freely-available “replacement-level” triple-A player. As you may have … Read More

Bars and Bats

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Face it: Toronto will always be a hockey town. Even as the Maple Leafs remain mired in the team’s longest playoff drought in decades — an exciting late-season Hail Mary notwithstanding — hockey continually dominates the city’s sports landscape. It’s enough to make a guy forget that Toronto has other … Read More

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

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Out of sight, out of mind has worked well for the Blue Jays and Troy Glaus, but at some point both are going to have to deal with the allegations he received shipments of performance-enhancing drugs. Whether the Blue Jays want to be involved in that is the big question. … Read More

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