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Jays Miscellanea looks back at a bunch of people you may or may not recall who played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Let’s remember some guys!   So, why exactly am I dedicating an entire post to Francisco Cabrera, a little-used backup catcher/first baseman who only made 374 career plate appearances over five seasons, racking […]

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Jays Miscellanea looks back at a bunch of people you may or may not recall who played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Let’s remember some guys!   One need not squint hard to see “Hall of Fame” in Dave Parker’s numbers. This fearsome Pirates slugger was so much more than simply a larger-than-life bopper. An […]

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Jays Miscellanea looks back at a bunch of people you may or may not recall who played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Let’s remember some guys!   Today is a good day, because I get to write and you get to read about Luis Sojo. Unless you were really tuned in to the minutiae of […]

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Jays Miscellanea looks back at a bunch of people you may or may not recall who played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Let’s remember some guys!   There have been so many great Willies throughout baseball history. Hall of Famers Mays, McCovey, and Stargell, and Hall of Very Gooders Davis, Randolph, and McGee. Perhaps leading […]

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Jays Miscellanea looks back at a bunch of people you may or may not recall who played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Let’s remember some guys!   Pete Vuckovich– best known for his Cy Young Award-winning season in 1982, leading his Milwaukee Brewers to that year’s World Series (an eventual 7 game loss to the […]