DUNEDIN, Fla – Reigning Midwest League MVP Ryan McBroom has his eyes set on an encore performance this year. The six-foot-three, 230 pound first baseman, had an incredible season with the Lansing Lugnuts, the Jays…
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Blue Jays prospect Jonathan “J.D.” Davis sees glimpses of Andrew McCutchen and Tim Raines in himself. Davis isn’t being arrogant. It’s just a self-belief he’s carried since his college days at Central…
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Toronto Blue Jays minor-league pitcher Bobby Doran believes that you reap on the baseball field what you’ve sown in the off-season. Doran, who recently signed with the Jays, had a challenging 2015 season, mentally and physically, with the Kansas City T-bones of the Independent league, but feels back on top of his game.
For some, baseball is just a game, but for others it capsulizes decades of family tradition. Two seasoned Blue Jays fans were having a bite to eat at Marguerite’s, a fan hotspot outside the Florida Auto Exchange Stadium, before the team hosted the Atlanta Braves. John McKague reminisced about his ongoing tradition at Blue Jays spring training with his wife, Jenny. “It was a sad story,” he said. “My wife’s father died and my brother died about two weeks later. We said, ‘I need a holiday, let’s get the hell out of here.’ We came down here, and we have come down here ever since. That was 25 years ago.
DUNEDIN, Fla. -Confidence is not a problem for Shane Dawson. Now that his body is ready he says. The Drayton Valley, Alb., native wants to build on a very successful 2015 baseball season and continue…
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Tampa Bay Rays prospect Riley Unroe is always trying to outplay his baseball pedigree. Unroe knew what he had to accomplish at each stage of his career. Having a father who…
Port Charlotte, Fla. – Nick Ciuffo, the first-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Rays is putting all the pressure aside as a top prospect. The South Carolina native was drafted 21st overall in the…
Jose Bautista sure knows how to make an entrance at spring training. The Toronto Blue Jays slugger reportedly asked for a new contract worth either $150 million over five years or $164 million over six years. He’s denied those numbers.
DUNEDIN, Fla – Daniel Rodriquez knew he wanted to be a baseball player even though he was growing up in soccer loving Mexico.
The 18-year-old, who prefers Dalton, is currently in minor league spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays, hoping to be promoted to the Lansing Lugnuts in the mid A Midwest League.
Born in Mexicali, Baja California, Rodriguez’s passion for baseball started when he was a little boy, encouraged by his mom ‘’ against his grandfather’s wishes.
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Injuries may have altered the course of Scott Silverstein’s career, but he doesn’t waste time with regrets.
Drafted in the 32nd round in 2008 by the Washington Nationals, the left-handed pitcher discovered he had a torn labrum and postponed his professional career to accept a scholarship opportunity at the University of Virginia.
“Everybody has got a different path,” Silverstein said at the Bobby Mattick Training Center. “I certainly enjoyed my time at Virginia, obviously my path was different due to injury, but I wouldn’t trade my path for anything.