J.P. Ricciardi
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Hayhurst on McGowan: Ghost of Carpenter haunting Jays
statement that “if pitchers with torn labrums were horses, they’d be destroyed.” With the dangers of labrum surgery in mind, J.P. Ricciardi took Carpenter off the 40-man roster during the off-season and offered him a low ball, minor league and incentives deal 5/18/13 from Sportsnet.ca Read more »
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New faces, same old Yankees
swing; he’d also drawn eight walks in 56 plate appearances after walking just 16 times last season. This is a timely return. Ricciardi’s spending spree, which saw Alex Rios receive a contract extension and free agents such as B.J. Ryan and A.J. Burnett join from Globe and Mail Read more »
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Sundin gets some advice from...J.P. Ricciardi?
Created by: Harold C. From Acomb to Zezel, VINTAGE LEAFS features photographs of your favourite Toronto Maple Leafs from years gone by. While the primary focus of the blog is on older photographs, the only steadfast rule is that players on the current team from Vintage Leafs Read more »
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It’s a whole new ballgame for Jays’ manager John Gibbons
that something had changed. Understand that Gibbons had been humbled by the game long before his minor-league roommate, J.P. Ricciardi, fired him as Blue Jays manager in 2008. As a young catcher, Gibbons’s path to the major leagues was derailed by a broken from Globe and Mail Read more »
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Tejada, Santana linked by Latino heritage
at those things, you’re really limiting yourself. I’ve been color-blind when it comes to a team. “Sometimes, it’s cyclical,” added Ricciardi, who worked as Toronto’s GM from 2001-09. “Sometimes, you look up and you have more Latin players than you had in the from New York Post Read more »
