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The season crosses the halfway mark

The Royals were bad for a very long time. If you still watched regularly you probably had to make some...interesting calls about who your favorite players were.

A look back at the 1983 trade that sent American League ERA leader Rick Honeycutt to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Dave Stewart going to the Rangers. Both would make bigger impacts much later down the road.

share-square-1718710 In 1997, Major League Baseball honored Jackie Robinson by making his No. 42 the first uniform number to be retired across the sport. That said, players who were wearing No. 42 at the time were grandfathered in, meaning they could choose to continue wearing it until they retired. Thus, some teams have had a player wear No. 42 more recently than others -- and some have never handed out that uniform to anyone. Here's a look at the last player to wear No. 42 for each MLB team: American League East Blue Jays: Xavier Hernandez (1989) Hernandez, a right-handed relief pitcher, ma...

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...