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Today is Brandon Morrow's 26 27th birthday. He gets the start today too. Years ago Bill James did a little study on how players did on their birthdays, I don't remember too much about it, other...

Mike Sirotka turns 40 today. If we ever do a list of 'worst trades in Jay history', the David Wells for Mike Sirotka deal will be on the list,  not that the White Sox got much out of it either....

Jim Clancy turns 55 today and Roy Howell 57. Jim Clancy pitched for us from 1977 to 1988. He and Dave Stieb battled for franchise lead in wins for a number of years. He was a horse, he threw 250...

Former Jay slugger Tony Batista turns 37 today. In 2.5 seasons Tony hit 80 home runs for us. Like our Jose Bautista, this Batista had one massively great season, hitting 41 homers and 114 RBI in...

Today is the birthday of a pair of good left handed pitchers. John Candelaria turns 57 today. The Candy Man pitched in 600 major league games, finishing with a 177-122 record. 13 of those games and...

Lloyd Moseby turns 51 today.  Lloyd played center field for us for 10 seasons. He was part of the great outfield we had in the 80's with George Bell in left and Jesse Barfield in right. He was our...

Former Jay lefty reliever, Scott Schoeneweis, turned 37 today.  Scott, you might remember, pitched for us in 2005 and 2006. He was great in 2005, pitching in 80 games (and we think Cito uses Shawn...

Our favorite backup shortstop slash utility player slash good guy John McDonald turns 36 today. Mac has set a career high for home runs with 6 this year. Kind of makes you wonder how many he would...

A favorite former Jay for a lot of us, Scott Rolen turns 35 today. Scott's had a pretty terrific 14 season MLB career. He's hit .284/.370/.498 with 283 home runs, 19 of which he hit in his season...

Pitcher/author Dirk Hayhurst turns 29 today.