Alex Anthopoulos

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH Blue Jays righty Brandon Morrow gave his team something they have not had all season -- an eight-inning start. Morrow held the Seattle Mariners to three hits, five walks and two runs...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH Blue Jays manager John Gibbons does not like to shuffle his lineup as much as he has had to so far this year as his team's offense sputters. But he has been juggling again and...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH J.A. Happ knows how much the bullpen needs a break. The starters were expected to be a strength of the team, but they have had only three starts of seven innings so far this season....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH It is difficult to pick one area that has troubled the Blue Jays in their rocky start. They have been bad all over. Pick any aspect. The fielding, the pitching and the fielding...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH As a 38-year-old utility player, Mark DeRosa has seen a lot. And he did not like what he was seeing in the Blue Jays as they went down to one close defeat after another. So he called...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH The starting rotation was supposed to be a strength for the Blue Jays this season. It has not worked that way so far. But that could be said about many things in the team's 9-17...

The Sports Xchange By Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange Yankees 3, Blue Jays 2 NEW YORK -- Lyle Overbay hit a go-ahead two-run homer with two outs in the seventh inning and the New York Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays with...

The Sports Xchange Larry Fleisher, The Sports Xchange Yankees complete four-game sweep of struggling Blue Jays NEW YORK -- Lyle Overbay does not have the exact approach to hitting a knuckleball pitcher, but one thing he learned from former Toronto Blue...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH Toronto general manager Alex Anthopoulos, the face of growing discontent in a season that already seems to be rapidly spinning out of control, tried to put a happier face on the...

Bud Selig would love to see a series between the World Series and Japan Series champions. But among the realities is that as problematic as that idea seems now, it might become even less viable in the future. Major League Baseball is lowering the talent...

There are some things that can be bought. A space flight. The chance to be cryogenically frozen. Or maybe just some of the simpler things, like a 12-cylinder Ferrari Testarossa, beachfront property in Turks and Caicos or one of the socks Curt...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Thirteen players and coaches have worn No. 56 for the Cubs. Could Mark Buehrle one day become the 14th? "What if?'' Buehrle said on a sunny Wednesday in the visiting clubhouse at McKechnie Field. I had asked him what would have...