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Lake Wales, Florida - The Highlanders Booster Club is starting a new chapter in it's long history. They will be having the Inaugural Highlander Hall of Fame on May 4, 2019. Here is a statement from the Highlander Boosters: The Highlander Booster Club is a vital part of the Lake…

The last time the season began late because of a work stoppage.

Only three big leaguers, so it’s good one of them ended up in Cooperstown

The Jays found one important future piece in an unlikely place

Lacking a 1st rounder, they made gambled on upside in the 2nd and found a longtime MLB player in the 3rd

Lake Wales, Florida - The Highlanders Booster Club is starting a new chapter in it's long history. They will be having the Inaugural Highlander Hall of Fame on May 4, 2019. Here is a statement from the Highlander Boosters: The Highlander Booster Club is a vital part of the Lake…

29 years ago today The Blue Jays won their first World Series. It always seems that our first World Series win isn’t as celebrated as our second one, likely because it didn’t end in a walk-off...

Roy Halladay would have turned 44 today. Roy was either the best or the second-best Blue Jays starter of all time, depending on who you ask, but there is no doubt he and Dave Stieb are the two best...

Top 60 All-Time Greatest Jays: #22 Ernie Whitt Share this story Ernie Whitt was born June 13, 1952, in Detroit, Michigan, not far from Tiger Stadium. The Red Sox picked him in the 15th round of the 1972 amateur draft, one pick before Jason Thompson, a terrific first baseman for the Tigers and Dodgers. Ernie was blocked from making the Red Sox by future Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk and was left unprotected in the 1976 expansion draft, and we grabbed him up. Whitt got 41 at-bats in our...

Who could the Royals have drafted in the 80s? Share this story This is the second installment looking back at who the Royals could have selected in past drafts, by the decade. I’m not sure if there is anything more difficult in life than identifying baseball talent. Brain surgery? Talking to women? The list is pretty short. Staking your career as a scout or General Manager to the analysis of 18–22-year-old ball players is a risky endeavor. Why do some players make it and some do not? That r...