He's managed our national teams for long enough. Let's consider him Canadian. McKay played in our first ever game, at third base, he went 2 for 4 with an RBI in our first win against the White Sox.
He played the first month and a half as our everyday 3B, then moved around the rest of the infield that year. He was recalled in September. After the season the Jays released Dave and he signed with the A's as a free agent. With the Jays, in his 3 seasons, he hit. He was an outfield that played 20 games for us in In 41 at bats he had 9 hits, 1 triple, 1 home run, 3 walks, 12 strikeouts and 5 RBI.
That was his major league career. Rob played a few games, for the Jays, in 7 seasons, but never had more then 80 at bats in any one of them. He was he was a pretty decent defensive outfielder, but we had George Bell, Lloyd Moseby and Jesse Barfield playing for us. He wasn't going to push any of them off a spot.
He was with the team from to and then he was traded to the Angels with Greg Myers for Mark Eichhorn. He bounced around to a few different teams and then we traded to get him from, and 12 days later trade him back to, the Phillies. For the Jays, he hit. After his playing career the Jays employed him as a scout. Vince Horsman : A left-handed pitcher, from Halifax, Nova Scotia , who came up through out minor league system, and got into 4 games as a reliever in The A's took him from us, off waivers before the season.
Denis Boucher: Another Montreal born player. He made 7 starts for us, in his rookie year of , going with a 4. Over 4 seasons he pitched in 35 games, including 15 for his home town Expos. A left-handed hitting outfielder. Rob got into 17 games with our World Series winning teams and 41 games the next year. After the season, we sent him off to the Phillies. We signed him again in gave him all of 7 at bats.
As a Jay he hit. Paul Spoljaric: A lefty reliever from Kelowna, B. Paul got into a couple of games in , then 28 games in In he was doing a pretty good job for us, a 3. A pretty good deal. For interview requests, click here. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Gerry Chidiac Read more from the same author: Canada must overcome its lingering linguistic imperialism Ending genocide starts with recognizing our common humanity Mainstream media has lost our trust in the age of COVID Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.
C Mike Nickeas -- Vancouver, Canada. The former fifth-round Draft pick of the Rangers in started his career with the Mets, but joined the Blue Jays in the blockbuster R. Dickey deal. Arencibia in the ninth inning, catching Luis Perez. A gifted athlete and top prospect who shot through the Minor Leagues, Pompey debuted as a year-old in and made an immediate impression with his speed and defense.
Pompey was never able to seize a starting role long term and dealt with an unfortunate string of injuries, but he still gave Blue Jays fans one of the iconic images of the '15 and '16 playoff runs when he stole second then third base against the Royals in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the '15 ALCS.
If the Blue Jays had found a way to bring him home, that pinch-running performance would be an all-time Blue Jays moment. Over 16 games in , Pond had eight hits, including his one career home run, which came against Bronson Arroyo of the Red Sox on May Quantrill spent six seasons of his impressive year Major League career with the Blue Jays, a stint in which he converted to a full-time reliever and found immediate success.
The right-hander posted ERAs of 1. Richmond has travelled the world pitching professionally later in his career, but he spent parts of four seasons with the Blue Jays as a starter. Drafted in the 10th round out of Oral Roberts University, Romano worked through the Minor Leagues as a starter, but things really clicked for the hard-throwing right-hander when he made the transition back to the bullpen.
After debuting in , Romano was one of the stories of '20 for the Blue Jays, posting a 1. After coming up with the Mariners, who draw plenty of Canadian fans on the west coast from British Columbia -- especially when the Blue Jays are in town -- Saunders was dealt to Toronto prior to the season for left-hander J. Saunders lost nearly all of his first season in Toronto to a knee injury, but he put up some impressive numbers in his lone full campaign , hitting.
A 28th-round Draft pick of the Blue Jays in , Sinclair began his Minor League career in the rotation before transitioning to the bullpen, which is where he made his big league debut in ' Spoljaric was also part of two trades from the Blue Jays.
The Canadian baseball legend played 19 seasons in the Major Leagues, spanning his debut with the Expos all the way to his final season with the Nationals in From his peak years with Oakland to the many stops later in his career, Stairs appeared in MLB games for 12 different teams.
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