Michael Schwimer

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH The Blue Jays did not lose the series. That's the good news. They already had snapped a string of 16 consecutive series losses to the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field by winning...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ was released from a Tampa-area hospital Wednesday morning after he was hit in the head by a line drive during Tuesday night's game against the Tampa...

MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH The Blue Jays were still waiting for word on the condition of left-handed pitcher J.A. Happ, who was struck on the left side of the head in the second inning on Tuesday by a line drive from Rays center...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH Blue Jays manager John Gibbons might have said it best. "Coming into the season with great expectations, I've got to say we haven't handled that well," he said. "I don't think there'...

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 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...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Toronto Blue Jays - INSIDE PITCH The Blue Jays are 1-1 when manager John Gibbons is ejected by the umpires. The ejections have come in consecutive games. Gibbons was tossed in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 6-5,...