Posted by Jeremy on April 1, 2009 under Uncategorized | 
I received an early birthday present from my dear old dad. In a brightly colored box was a baseball signed and personalized by 2003 A.L. Cy Young Award winner and 5-time All Star pitcher Roy Halladay. Accompanying the baseball was a sharp looking 5X8 photo of the Blue Jays ace signed with a blue sharpie.
Halladay’s mother-in-law and my dad went to high school together and are Facebook buddies today. He made the request for the ball and suggested to her to tell Roy to check out this blog some time. Rumor has it that Halladay while visiting her in Florida did just that, spending a good deal of time reading one of the Top 20 Prospects entries.
My thanks to my dad, Mr. Halladay’s mother-in-law, and, of course, to Roy himself for the neat gift and honor of taking time to check things out in this humble corner of the world wide web!
Roy, we wish you and the rest of the Toronto Blue Jays the best of luck this season. Feel free to stop by any time and say howdy.
Thanks again!
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Sorry for the delay, I have been busy over the last couple of days writing some news blurbs for the Cardboard Connection. Yesterday’s spring training action saw top pitchers Joba Chamberlain and Rick Porcello each throw 5 quality innings en route to wins. Chamberlain is a perfect 4-0 this spring and has given every indicator that he will be able to shoulder the load of a full season workload in ‘09. Travis Snider belted his 4th HR and Pablo Sandoval, Brett Gardner, Blake DeWitt, Wladimir Balentien, and Kendry Morales continued their solid springs with multi hit games. The youngster of the day, though, is Nick Adenhart. The 22 year old Angels hurler tossed 6.2 innings of two run ball striking out 5 to earn his 3rd win of the spring. Adenhart entered this spring as a bubble guy to make the Halos’ rotation, and he has responded by posting the best spring of his career.
Youngster of the Day—NICK ADENHART
Other Notable Performances:
- Joba Chamberlain—5.1 IP 5H 2 ER 3 BB 6K W(4)
- Phil Coke—IP 2K
- Brett Gardner—3-4 RBi
- Jay Bruce—2-4 RBI
- Chris Dickerson—1-5 R 2B
- Matt Moses—3-5 2B 2R RBI
- Juan Portes—1-1 2 RBI
- Jim Negrych—2-2 3 RBI
- Quincy Lattimore—2-2 3B 2R RBI
- Felix Pie—2-5 2B
- Matt Joyce—2-4 HR(1) 2 RBI
- Justin Masterson—2.2 IP H ER 3K W(2)
- Rick Porcello—5 IP 2H UER BB 2K
- Daniel Murphy—1-3 2 RBI R
- Jonathan Malo—1-1 HR(1) 2 RBI
- Emiliano Bonifacio—1-3 R SB(4)
- Travis Snider—2-3 HR(4) RBI
- Jarrod Saltalamacchia—1-3 R
- Elvis Andrus—1-3 R
- Pablo Sandoval—2-5 2B 2 RBI
- Eider Torres—2-5 HR(2) RBI 2R SB(5)
- Emmanuel Burriss—2-5 3R
- Wladimir Balentien—3-4 2B 2R 2 RBI
- Chris Jakubaskas—5 IP 4H ER 4K W(2)
- Blake DeWitt—3-5 HR(2) 2B 2 RBI 2R
- Chin-Lung Hu—2-5 R
- Josh Outman—5.2 IP 5H 2 ER BB 6K W
- Travis Buck—1-3 2B R 3 RBI
- Chris Getz—2-4
- Micah Hoffpauir—1-4 HR(6) 2 RBI
- Kendry Morales—2-3 2B R
- Nick Adenhart—6.2 IP 8H 2 ER BB 5K W(3)
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