Ummmmm.....Dickey the best!!! A great interview tonight on 60 minuets with an amazing man. And he's a Blue Jay!!

I was playing around on Fangraphs today and ended up looking at the career "standard" pitching stats of all active MLB starting pitchers (no minimum IP limit). After poking around enough, I discovered the following fact about our 2013 Blue Jays: The 2013 Blue Jays have 2 players among the top 10 active SPs who have committed the most balks: Mark Buehrle (3rd - 15) and Darren Oliver (7th - 10). The Yankees also have 2 in the top 10: CC Sabathia (4th - 14) and Andy Pettite (t-5th - 11). The active leader is former Jay Ted Lilly with 28, nearly double the 2nd place finisher Justin Verlander (15). The all time leader is Steve Carlton with 88.

Found the full parade on youtube. I can't imagine what a Toronto would look like if a team won again.

in case anyone only read the sports and comix sections maybe thanks for Canada-wide MLB.tv blackouts. grrr.

"Most people that try to analyze this Dickey effect tend to group all the pitchers that follow in to one grouping with one ERA and compare to the total ERA of the bullpen or rotation. This is a simplistic and non-descriptive way of analyzing the effect and does not look at the how often the pitchers are pitching not after Dickey."

Spring training in Arizona has Latino players thinking about more than just baseball.

'Since the late nineties, baseball has devised highly specific formulas for crafting lineups and judging players, but keeping the arm of a pitcher from a career-ending injury remains a mysterious, semi-mystical, and very fraught process.'