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All things considered, Jon Lester came away from a conversation with John Farrell feeling optimistic about the Boston Red Sox manager’s Stage 1 lymphoma diagnosis.

Toronto was in fourth place and eight games back July 28, which was also the day the club traded for Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and reliever LaTroy Hawkins.

“We have had some discussions, taking a look at fourth outfielder candidates”, Anthopoulos said.

And for those upset that Bird won’t get much playing time while sitting on the bench, understand that it’s August, the Yankees just fell behind the Toronto Blue Jays and into second place in the American League East standings, and at this point helping out the...

St. Louis is 72-40 overall, at 32 over. In 72 games for the Diamondbacks this season, he was batting.

The Toronto Blue Jays battle the Minnesota Twins at the Rogers Centre in Wednesday action. “I don’t want to send a message of panic”, he said.

Toronto, who has a scheduled off-day Monday, stunned the Yankees in New York with a three-game sweep over the weekend, finishing up with a 2-0 shutout on Sunday. The other team scored one run.

Most of the talk has been about the new additions to the Toronto Blue Jays. Their rotation at least has been performing fairly well of late – Severino, CC Sabathia, Nathan Eovaldi and Tanaka are all coming off solid starts – so perhaps that provides some reason for...

Josh Donaldson hit a solo shot for Toronto in the first and the score was tied at one apiece until Jose Bautista homered in the 10th inning to lift the Blue Jays to a 2-1 win in New York.

The Blue Jays have the third-most home runs in the majors leagues (130) and Girardi acknowledged it makes their lineup that much tougher now. It was not only because speedy new Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes was hitting second. The first one, however, was not the sort of trade that...

According to a Tweet from Jon Heyman, the Toronto Blue Jays are about to acquire David Price from the Detroit Tigers. The 6-2, 195 lbs. lefthander participated in the SirusXM All-Star Futures Game in 2014 and was named the 18-best prospect following the season by Baseball America.

And while Tiger fans should be excited the team snagged a promising young pitching prospect in Daniel Norris in exchange, essentially, for Price’s expiring contract that doesn’t mean Detroit won’t miss Price.

Toronto made a big splash earlier this week by swapping shortstops with the Colorado Rockies, sending them Jose Reyes for Troy Tulowitzki, who promptly homered in his first at-bat for the offensively loaded Blue Jays on Wednesday. As I’ve said before – knowing it is...

Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports that Minnesota has acquired right-hander Kevin Jepsen from the Tampa Bay Rays. The Twins have been seeking bullpen help and appear to have landed their man. Jepsen has had a nice year in Tampa, putting up a 2.81 ERA while striking out 34 across...

The Pittsburgh Pirates were trying to bolster their bullpen for the stretch drive on Thursday, reportedly nearing a trade for Detroit Tigers closer Joakim Soria, per James Schmehl of MLive.com, Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Jon Heyman of CBS Sports.