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Matt Stairs (OF/1B-TOR)
2008-03-28 21:45:00 Stairs could begin the season on the DL. He has not played in a game since March 23rd and hasn't had an at-bat since March 20th due to a sore hip.
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Matt Stairs homers off Francisco Cordero, Blue Jays beat Reds 8-4 (AP)
2008-03-03 02:12:00 Matt Stairs homered off new Reds closer Francisco Cordero, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Cincinnati 8-4 on Sunday for their first victory of spring training. Blue Jays starter A.J. Burnett allowed two runs and three hits in two innings, throwing 21 of his 35 pitches for strikes. A broken nail on the index finger ...
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Blue Jays Sign Stairs For Two Years
2007-11-02 19:40:00 According to ESPN's Amy K. Nelson, the Blue Jays have signed Matt Stairs to a two-year, $3.5MM deal. The price seems about right. J.P. Ricciardi has predicted a quite offseason, so we may not see much else. Nelson says the plan is for Stairs to mainly platoon with Adam Lind in left field. That seems to leave Reed Johnson as a non-tender candidate. The arbitration-eligible Johnson made $3.075MM in 2007 but his a miserable .236/.305/.320 in 275 ABs. That was a far cry from his '06 performance of .317/.388/.477. It should be noted that Johnson had back surgery in April, which probably explains the decline. showad();
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Jays To Retain Stairs, Cut Towers?
2007-10-30 20:41:00 I feel like with two guys named stairs and towers I could craft some sort of amusing play on words. Oh well. Here's the latest on the Blue Jays. They'll pass on A-Rod, says J.P. Ricciardi. No surprise there, but now it's official. They could still stand an upgrade at shortstop though. Unless Travis Hafner teaches John McDonald how to hit. Hafner needs to get himself in order first though. The Jays also hope to re-sign Matt Stairs, who wants a raise from last year's $850K. Maybe $3MM would get it done. Stairs was shielded from southpaws a bit but raked .289/.368/.549 overall in 357 ABs. As I noted before, signing Stairs could result in Reed Johnson being non-tendered. Speaking of non-tendering, Allan Ryan says "Josh Towers' time as a Jay has clearly passed." Doesn't he at least get a gold watch? Towers earned $2.9MM this year while posting a 5.38 ERA in 107 innings. Unless the price gets to the si...
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Neglecting the Company Man
2007-08-22 12:25:00 There's plenty of crying in baseball, but loyalty is in much shorter supply. And for good reason; teams can't afford to pay much more than lip-service to such considerations in a business as competitive as Major League Baseball. Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star, however, feels that the Blue Jays are remiss for failing to observe such old-fashioned conventions. Of course, even suggesting that a respect for prior allegiance was pervasive at one time in baseball is suspect; for many years, the reserve clause ensured that fealty was enforced, to the detriment of the players, and as Steven Goldman observes in Baseball Prospectus' Mind Game, great teams of the past, such as the Yankee dynasties of the 30s and 40s-50s, pursued any means available to remain competitive--even when that meant jettisoning those who had accumulated many years of faithful service. Even if we accept that Griffin's idyllic labor-management relationship ever existed outside of the mid-19th century, the prese...
Matt Stairs - #24 - First Base - 5?9? - 215lbs
2007-07-05 02:00:00 News: Matt Stairs had a two-run homer and a two-run double Wednesday versus the A’s.Impact: Stairs has 13 homers in 185 at-bats, the same number he finished with in 348 at-bats last year and in 396 at-bats in 2005. He last hit more than 20 homers in 2000. Whether he gets there this ...
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