Vancouver Canadians Countdown
I was recently mulling over the idea of trying to code a countdown clock on to my site so that any visitors (hi mom) were reminded of how close we are to the opening of the Threepeat in Thirteen season. When looking at the C’s official site to confirm the start date though, I noticed [...]
What Can We Read Into the Blue Jays April?
I’m tired. Nine days into an intensive firefighting course in the Texas heat and I feel like Chael Sonnen after Jon Jones was through with me. I’m not trying to whine, just provide some context to why I feel quite negative about the Toronto Blue Jays at the moment. Maybe it’s the fatigue. The fact [...]
An Extended Spring
With the Blue Jays full season minor league affiliates underway, we can eliminate sixty odd names from starting 2013 with the Vancouver Canadians. In reality, there were only three names that I was surprised to see make the trip north of Florida (or to Dunedin from Dunedin, but that’s just confusing). Of course, like Kellen [...]
Hey, it’s a Reunion in Lansing!
Back in December I wrote a piece trying to predict who would be the pitchers piggy-backing in Lansing to start this season. At the end of the article, I flippantly wrote that whatever the outcome, a ‘small town in Central Michigan is, once again, going to be privy to some exciting pitching prospects.’ Turns out [...]
Opening Day for Ex C’s
As I mentioned in my last post, all four of the Jays full-season minor league franchises kicked off their 2013 season Thursday night. Three of the four of them got off to winning starts. But, for the farm, more often than not, the process is more important than the results. Team success at these levels [...]
Let’s Get Going!
With Thursday representing opening day for the Jays full-season minor league franchises, the rosters were set early this week. Without going into too much detail, or looking back at all my predictions (an exercise that would only serve to confirm how little I know), a quick glance at the Lansing and Dunedin teams is in [...]
2012 Pitching Review – The Bullpen
Frequent readers of the blog will be very excited with this post. It is the last of my 2012 Vancouver Canadian player reviews. Now, the excitement may stem from the series itself, as readers look forward to each position in turn. Or it may just be a product of wanting to get the whole ordeal [...]
2012 Pitching Review – The Starters
I’m leaving this a bit late, with full season leagues starting on the 4th of April (Lansing’s at least), but after reviewing all the players that manned the eight outfield positions for the C’s in 2012, I’d be remiss not to do the same for the pitchers. Remiss, not only because it simply wouldn’t be [...]
Having Fun with Oliver
With spring training grinding its way towards its inevitable conclusion, more actual baseball stories will begin to make their way to the forefront. However, as this blog focuses on a short season club, the day to day monitoring of performances, results, et al will have to wait for an additional couple of months. Combining the [...]
Canada vs USA Matters!
Wow. I’m having to re-write this on the fly, so that wow is now for two reason. Firstly, for one of the nastiest basebrawls you’ll see. And secondly, what a result for Canada. We’re going to take a break from our regular Vancouver Canadians programming to look at the Canadians currently in Phoenix. After watching [...]
A Review of the 2012 Positional Review
If you have been an avid reader of the blog yourvancs.com this may be a tad redundant, but with the new forum (and for other reasons which I will get into) I figured it would be a good time to review the 2012 positional pieces I’ve been doing the past couple of months. With minor [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Center Fielders
‘Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today……’ And, with that classic line we round out the positional review of the outfield with probably the most exciting group, the center fielders. Center, as a position, has always held a bit of mystique for me. And it’s not solely because it’s the position I am [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Right Fielders
After reviewing the left fielders in our last post, we switch around to the opposite side of the outfield, taking a close look at the right fielders to grace the hallowed turf of Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium. Ideally your prototypical right fielder will be a middle of the order power bat while displaying [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Left Fielders
After making our way around the infield we now move to the outfield. Similar to the infield, most of the players spent a bit of time at multiple positions so I’ll defer to Baseball Reference and categorize by starts. I may take some artistic license to even the posts out a bit. See how we [...]
The Greatest PDC of all Time Extended
I got so caught up trying to sound intelligent with my questioning of Alex Anthopoulos in my last post, that I forgot to talk about the most important piece of news that came out of the hotstove luncheon. The Jays and Canadians have agreed to extend their relationship a further two years until 2016. I [...]
An Open Letter to Alex Anthopoulos
Despite being the pre-eminent (read: only) Vancouver Canadians blogger out there, I did not receive an invitation to Friday’s hot stove luncheon at the Vancouver Hotel. Being a glass half full kinda guy I’m going to give the C’s brass a pass and blame it on Canada Post. Gives them an easy out in what [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Third Basemen
Third base earns the consistency prize for 2012, being manned by the same player for sixty-three of seventy-six games, or 83% of the regular season. That bests Jorge Flores who got into ‘only’ fifty-four games at short. But, before we discuss the stalwart at third, and he is worthy of a discussion as is an [...]
2013 Vancouver Canadians Predictions
We’re still a ways away from pitchers and catchers reporting to Dunedin, and even further away from the end of extended spring training and the announcement of the Canadians roster. Despite that, we can still try and come up with some predictions for the 2013 season. So, from the serious to the inane, presenting the [...]
2012 Vancouver Canadians Season in Review
Everybody, around Christmas time, does year in review pieces along with their 2013 predictions. I missed the boat on this one, which is especially egregious since I’ve been making noises all winter about how little content I am faced with covering a short season rookie ball team. However, I do have an excuse or two. [...]
A Winter of Content
I have stated throughout this winter that content would be a bit light when discussing the Vancouver Canadians. However, when taking into consideration the parent team, it has been a thousand Christmases wrapped into one. For two reasons. Similar to the British winter of discontent, I thought we were in for a long bleak winter [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Shortstops
Next on our 2012 positional review is shortstop. Admittedly, I thought it was going to be difficult to do a second basemen post, and believed I would have to add together with short to make a middle infield piece. After discussing three different second sackers though, I now realize that the shortfall of names will [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 2nd Basemen
Continuing the series breaking down the 2012 Northwest League Champion Vancouver Cs by position, today we look at the second basemen. But first, a housekeeping note, the 2013 schedule for yourvancs is up on milb.com. I have added June’s games into the Vancouver C’s Schedule section. Check it out. Gives us something to look forward [...]
More C’s Prospecting
This post is more of an extended postscript to my previous piece that looked at Marc Hulet’s Blue Jays top 15 prospect article. He had to add a few more names to the list as a couple were, unfortunately, subtracted when Alex Anthopolous pulled the trigger on a twelve player swap with the Miami Marlins. [...]
Vancouver Canadians on Hulet’s Radar
In between my 2012 positional breakdown, there’s been some actual news related to the Canadians. Marc Hulet, the respected prospect evaluator and writer released his prospect ‘Top 15‘ for the Blue Jays. I’m not going to paraphrase too much of the article as it is well worth a read in its own right. But I [...]
