Author | Craig Calcaterra

Jose Bautista was ejected yesterday after arguing balls and strikes and throwing his equipment on the ground. Rangers broadcaster Tom Grieve was less than impressed. Here’s what he said during the broadcast: “You turn into a cry baby when you act like that. Go sit down and look at the pitch and then apologize to…

June 10, 2013, 4:00 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Andy Martino has a piece up today looking at the Red Sox and all that has gone right. A lot of praise in there for Sox’ manager John Farrell. To that end, this little nugget caught my eye, though: One Red Sox player heard from a friend on the Jays before the season, and was…

June 3, 2013, 12:34 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Many people would argue that the story of the early season has been Evan Gattis — El Oso Blanco — the Braves’ backup catcher who has seemingly come out of nowhere to put up some pretty impressive power numbers for a 26 year-old rookie. And with all of the attention on Gattis, it’s understandable if…

May 28, 2013, 4:30 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

UPDATE: A little ominous, despite the claim of Morrow making his next start: According to a #BlueJays spokesman, Morrow’s forearm is just sore and he is still scheduled to make his next start.We’ll find out more later — Gregor Chisholm (@gregorMLB) May 28, 2013   1:31 PM: Watching the Braves-Blue Jays game. In addition to…

May 28, 2013, 1:31 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie left yesterday’s game with a sprained ankle. And he’s out of the lineup for today’s Jays-Braves game as a result.  In his place will be the Braves’ old friend Mark DeRosa. No word on how Lawrie’s sister feels about it all.

May 28, 2013, 10:30 am EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Brett Lawrie has a bit of a checkered Twitter history. He’s a Twitter drama queen and goes after “haters” and all that stuff that you’d think a highly-paid professional athlete would and should be above. But he’s a kid, really, and kids do silly stuff on social media all the time. And it appears to…

May 27, 2013, 1:10 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Recently there has been some talk about the fans in Toronto getting too drunk and too rowdy for their own good. We saw a bit of it last night. Orioles outfielder Nate McLouth made a nice catch, falling into the stands. When he got back up and got on the field, a fan wasted a…

May 24, 2013, 8:23 am EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

The Giants’ 2012 World Series win didn’t feature any contributions from Melky Cabrera, but their 2013 regular season sure did. And it’s not going unrecognized: Cabrera will receive his championship ring when the Giants visit the Blue Jays, Cabrera’s new team, on Tuesday. Manager Bruce Bochy performed a similar act last month with Chicago Cubs’…

May 13, 2013, 2:30 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Ricky Romero: human yo-yo: #BlueJays option Ricky Romero to AAA Buffalo and designate Edgar Gonzalez for assignment.Select contracts of Ramon Ortiz and Mickey Storey — Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) May 9, 2013   He was clearly lost last year, yet the Jays didn’t send him down. He was lost this spring, so they sent him. Down.…

May 9, 2013, 10:30 am EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com

Bill Madden of the Daily News reports that the Blue Jays, off to an awful start, held a players-only, closed-door meeting yesterday DeRosa would later call a players-only meeting to reiterate a lot of what beleaguered Blue Jay manager John Gibbons said to the media the day before … “There’s just a bad vibe creeping in…

April 29, 2013, 3:00 pm EDT via hardballtalk.nbcsports.com