Buffalo Boy's Blog

Cito's got the boys going good right now. Yesterday they swept Baltimore. Despite that, injuries are taking their toll on this team again. Vernon Wells and Dustin McGowan both are on the DL now joining Shaun Marcum and Aaron Hill.

Get through this Yankee series with two of three and get to the All Star Break on a good note and who knows what can happen after.

The Jays have a lot of division games in the second half and a lot of opportunity to move up in the standings. 10 1/2 back is not impossible, its close to impossible but not quite.

My immediate thought for the last month has been, get Aaron Hill back healthy after the All Star break and who knows where this train will go. Im sticking to that.

The injuries to the pitching staff while unfortunate do something I have said they needed for a while, it is probably going to get two left handers in the rotation, something I have been saying all year would be good for them. John Parrish and now Brian Tallet have both thrown well in spot starts over the last few weeks.

So we are now in fourth, with any luck, we can take it to the evil empire and all their distractions and come within a game or two of tying them in the standings.

In the immortal words of Dr. Marvin, baby steps.