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The College Baseball Foundation has named App State’s Andrew Terrell the John Olerud Award Two-Way Player of the Week. In four games last week, Terrell started once in left field, once on the mound and multiple times at designated hitter, batting from the leadoff spot even when he was the starting pitcher against North Carolina A&T. He has also started multiple games at third base this season. Credited with the win on a “staff day” during the midweek victory against North Carolina A&T, Terrell struck out five of the seven batters he faced in two scoreless innings and then scored four ti...

Top 60 All-Time Greatest Blue Jays: #20 Joe Carter Share this story Joseph Chris Carter | RF, LF, 1B | 1991-1997 This is the one I cheated on. Most of the other guys are with a few spots of where they landed on the little formula I use. Joe, well, he ended up nearer the back of the list. But I decided I’d put him here as kind of an honorary spot. I made a ‘Joe Carter’ rule, zeroing out seasons where a player had a negative WAR, figuring a player shouldn’t be better off not to play than to play badly. But it didn’t move Joe up as far as I thought it might, even with bonuses for play...

Top 60 All-Time Greatest Jays: #25 Roger Clemens Share this story William Roger Clemens | SP | 1997-1998 We might as well get the bad stuff out of the way right off the start; Clemens is mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. Did he start using in Toronto? Roger did have a jump in performance when he hit Toronto. Clemens met his soon-to-be personal trainer and later-to-be accuser Brian McNamee in Toronto. McNamee is known to be a supplier of steroids and human growth hormones. Clemens hired McNamee as a personal trainer in 1997, his first year in Toronto. McNa...

Top 60 All-Time Blue Jays: #32 Willie Upshaw Share this story Willie Clay Upshaw | 1B | 1978, 1980-1987 Willie Upshaw was born April 27, 1957, in Blanco, Texas. The Yankees picked him in the 5th round of the 1975 amateur draft out of high school. The Tigers picked Lou Whitaker earlier that round, so Upshaw was the second-best player in that round. With the Yankees having Chris Chambliss at first base, Willie so the Yankees didn’t have a place for him. The Jays picked him up in the Rule 5 draft in 1977, and he had to stay on the team for that season. His rule 5 season was terrible like m...

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