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The Arizona Fall League is often called a showcase circuit or prospect graduating school – a place where the Minors’ top talents gather for six weeks in the Valley of the Sun to compete before putting their stamps on the Majors. But the six AFL rosters aren’t loaded with Top

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The Arizona Fall League is upon us, and in this circuit of elite prospects, there is something to watch for every night. Here's what's on the docket this weekend in the AFL.

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TORONTO -- Bowden Francis, meet Dave Stieb. Stieb still stands alone on the mountaintop, the only pitcher in Blue Jays history to throw a no-hitter, but another near-miss on Sept. 11 left Francis standing on rare ground that only Stieb has known.

TORONTO -- For an organization that’s still fairly young, relative to some of the league’s longstanding clubs, the Blue Jays have had an incredible run of stars come through Toronto over their history. Even in those lean years between playoff runs as the Blue Jays looked to find their footing

Looking back over four-plus decades of Blue Jays baseball, many of the eras are defined by which ace was leading the staff. Dave Stieb was the Blue Jays' workhorse star in the 1980s, leading the rotation as Toronto rose from an expansion team to a competitor. The Roy Halladay years

TORONTO -- When the Blue Jays have been at their best, downtown Toronto orbits around Rogers Centre. With one of the best ballpark locations in baseball, Rogers Centre, which opened as SkyDome in 1989, has been home to the Blue Jays for over 30 years and hosted a long list

Who was the best offensive player in each league during the regular season? That is the criteria for choosing the annual winners of the Hank Aaron Award. The award was established in 1999 to mark the 25th anniversary of Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's all-time career home run record, and the

TORONTO -- The Blue Jays’ offseason started on a familiar note Wednesday. This time, there was no soul-crushing postseason loss to dissect, only the long, frustrating, 74-88 season that long ago strayed from being competitive. The messaging from club president and CEO Mark Shapiro remained the same, though, along with

The month of October brings baseball fans the excitement of postseason play in the Majors and the dawn of a new Arizona Fall League campaign. The Surprise Saguaros and Mesa Solar Sox kicked off the 32nd season of AFL competition on Monday, pulling the curtain up on six weeks of

There is a ton that goes into constructing an Arizona Fall League roster. Each AFL club receives prospects from five separate organizations, all with different needs and priorities. Some want their best prospects to spend time in the desert. Others primarily want formerly injured players to make up for lost

TORONTO -- This time, there’s no great heartbreak on the final day. Those heartbreaks are reserved for those who came close. There is no stunned silence in a still clubhouse, no thousand-yard stare across the room, no wondering what just happened. That’s because there’s no mystery and no suddenness to

The wheel never stops turning in these parts. The Minor League season may be over and the Majors might be in the midst of the postseason, but the Arizona Fall League begins with its Opening Day on Monday. So let’s give the MLB Pipeline Top 100 Prospects list a quick

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to track all of the Blue Jays' moves, along with the progress of any injured players. All players on the 60-day IL will be added back to clubs' 40-player rosters at the end of the World Series.

TORONTO -- Everything was new to Yariel Rodríguez this year. The hitters, the cities, the lifestyle, all of it. Pitching aside, there’s a big difference between the Rodríguez who walked into Dunedin, Fla., for the first time in February and the man who walked off the field on Saturday in

As always, the Arizona Fall League is loaded with talent. The developmental circuit, which starts its six-week season on Monday, has sent more than 3,000 players to the big leagues, including Hall of Famers Roy Halladay, Todd Helton, Derek Jeter and Mike Piazza and current stars including Mookie Betts, Bryce

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TORONTO -- José Berríos is, once again, who he has always been. He’s Ol’ Reliable, a pitcher who nearly lulls you to sleep with his consistency. He’s the man they call La Makina, the machine that just keeps chugging forward, over and over again. Friday’s dreadful 15-5 loss to the

In baseball, we talk about five-tool players all the time. They're the players who can do it all -- hit for contact and power, with the speed, glove and arm to be the ultimate all-around stars. But what do those tools look like in action? With the regular season wrapping

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TORONTO -- Three years in, everything about Kevin Gausman has gone right for the Blue Jays. He nailed the first impression in 2022, dominated in ‘23 and showed in ‘24 that even his bad days look like most pitchers’ good days. Gausman has already been worth every dime of his

TORONTO -- The lights don’t go out until a season loses its ability to pleasantly surprise you. This party has been over for months now, but these games still need to mean something. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bowden Francis have been those two bulbs keeping the front porch illuminated, a