Brandon League has been terrible

I'll admit it, I thought Brandon was primed to bust out for a sensational season with the potential to be the Blue Jays closer at the end of the season. He still might reach that level, but so far this season, he has been pathetic...

After the Jays crawled back to cut the 4 run Cleveland lead to 1, he promptly gave up a 2 run homer to Travis Hafner, eventually getting tagged for 3 runs. Toronto might have lost the game anyways, but a brutal performance like that squashed any hopes of a comeback. In the first game of the series, he walked a batter and beaned another to cough up the lead (luckily he still posted the victory because of a 6 run outburst by the team) After those two poor outings, he now has a bloated ERA of 9.00!

With Blow Jay Ryan having a disgusting start to the campaign, League had an outstanding opportunity to really prove he could handle more for the club. But after the first week in the 2009 season, he might just be pitching himself out of a job...

Rios & Wells put Jays back in it!

Just as I was about to post about how Alex Rios has had a pretty poor start to the season, and how Vernon Wells has hit for average (but for no power), they break out in a huge way in the 6th against Cleveland!

Boom!

Rios tripled home Marco Scutaro, and Wells crushed a no doubt 2 run blast to left. Toronto has now cut the lead to 5-4...

Game on!

Quietly Scott Rolen has been swinging hot stick

After a weak offensive 1st season with the Jays, 3rd baseman Scott Rolen really has got his swing together. He made adjustments last year in his swing as he battled through a sore shoulder...

Thus far in the first week of the season, he has benefited from being behind the scorching hot Adam Lind in the batting order. Though he hasn't put up huge power numbers (1 home run, 2 RBI), he has an outstanding batting average, hitting at a .421 clip through 6 games...

His defense last year was simply phenomenal. There was never a doubt about the veteran's glove. Maybe, just maybe, the Jays are starting to get a great return on their investment in the Troy Glaus for Scott Rolen deal...

Somewhere J.P. Ricciardi is smiling...

Purcey both brilliant & poor in first 2 innings

Through two innings, the '04 first round pick has thrown 46 pitches already! That is simply far too many. Purcey has surrendered 1 run, but the oddity is he's whiffed 4 batters, but has also issued free passes to 3 of them...

Will update as the game goes further along. Hopefully after the Blue Jays offense comes to life...