Home Opener at the Nat
The Vancouver Canadians returned home Monday night after dropping the final game of their three game set down in Tri-City against the Colorado Rockie affiliate Dust Devils. The C’s got another excellent effort from their starter, this time 2011 second round pick Jeremy Gabryszwski, who went six strong only giving up one earned on three [...]
Vancouver Canadians are not Perfect
After getting outhit Friday night, the Canadians did the bulk of the hitting last night. Unfortunately, like last Friday, the team with the most hits didn’t come out with the win. Despite the loss, there were a lot of positives to take from Saturday’s game. Kyle Anderson, a non-drafted free-agent, is one of several returnees [...]
A Walking Start
This has been a pet peeve of mine for some time now, so excuse my opening paragraph rant. I just do not understand Team 1410. The local, and only ‘all sports network’ has an annoying habit of syndicating U.S. talk shows over broadcasting live sporting events. For me, I couldn’t believe ANYONE would want to [...]
Vancouver Canadians Media Day
I’m a bit late to the party, but still wanted to get a few thoughts down regarding the release of the Canadians roster at Wednesday’s media day prior to tonight’s season opener. I have to admit, I went into media day a bit wide eyed, it being my first rodeo, so some of the questions [...]
Vancouver Canadians, The Draft, and other Notes
Wow, that sort of snuck up on me. With all the focus on the draft, Lansing’s young pitchers, and everything Blue Jay, I’d lost sight of the most important things…..Opening Day for the Canadians! The season kicks off Friday with a quick road trip to Tri-City before the Nat opens for business on Monday where [...]
Drafting Future Vancouver Canadians
The rule 4 MLB draft kicks off Thursday with rounds one and two on the dock. Three through ten will take place Friday and finally, on Saturday, we see the remaining thirty rounds. The changes made to the structure of the draft, how the slot system works, and penalties incurred for going over a team’s [...]
Anthony Alford a Vancouver Canadian?
In the never-ending quest to predict the Vancouver Canadians opening day roster prior to…..Opening Day, some interesting bits of intelligence are starting to filter over the airwaves. The MLB draft takes place from the 6th through 8th of June which will provide a chunk of the roster. As we get closer to the draft, the [...]
Balbino Fuenmayor Released
This past Thursday saw the Blue Jays announce the outright release of Balbino Fuenmayor. Newsworthy for the Jays as, once again, they have given up on a first base prospect. A worrying theme when you consider how thin they are at the position organizationally. For Canadians fans, this will more than likely produce mixed feelings. [...]
Deconstructing Daniel Norris
I’m going to admit something right off the hop here. This blog has been quite Daniel Norris centric through its short lifetime. From our first post to now, Daniel has probably (although not officially measured) garnered the most ink. So, why are we taking more time to talk about him? Well, as per my last [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
