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Top 60 All-Time Blue Jays: #29 Aaron Hill Share this story Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images Aaron Walter Hill | 2B | 2005 - 2011 So somehow I skipped Aaron, so here he is at 29th, and I’ve moved Stewart, Mulliniks, and Gruber up a spot. Sorry, Aaron. Aaron Hill had a 13-year MLB career, the first six and a half seasons with the Blue Jays. He was our first-round draft pick (13th overall) in 2003. He turned out to be one of the better first-round picks in that draft. Of the 12 guys picked in front of him, only Mick Markakis (33.0) had a higher bWAR than Hill’s 24.4, and the only oth...

Who might be the Fred McGriff of the 2020 pandemic? Share this story Photo by Paige Calamari/MLB via Getty Images Last night, the 2021 Hall of Fame balloting was announced, with the writers not surprisingly pitching a shutout with no obvious first time balloters and the backlog of great players in recent years having been cleared except of high controversial cases where there’s little progress. The cumulative effect was there was more “downballot” votes available for players who had really, really good careers, but are generally short of the average of median player in Cooperstown. Mar...