In light of the trivia goldmine that his career represents the other day I began using the hashtag #LaTroyFacts on Twitter to share interesting tidbits of information about Hawkins, what happened next is history.
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McEachern, the Thunder Bay Bordercats third baseman and a Northwoods League All-Star, did not have a dissimilar childhood from many other kids in Northern Ontario focusing on hockey. Then baseball took off for him.
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Miles Gordon's was thrown a curveball on draft day, but his first taste of professional ball has been far less full of surprises.
The Oakville native expected to go in the fifth round to one of the Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, or Arizona Diamondbacks, only to be swept up by the Cincinnati Reds with the 10th pick in the fourth round.
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After spending the season as the Toronto Blue Jays most dangerous bullpen weapon Roberto Osuna has ascended to the closer role and at 20 years old he doesn't look out of place.
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After being selected in the first round by the Atlanta Braves, right-handed pitcher Mike Soroka feels that he's landed with an organization that has a knack for developing pitchers.
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If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck and Aaron Sanchez is starting to look an awful lot like Kyle Drabek.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have found themselves caught in the middle once again.
For the seventh time in the last 10 seasons, the team has posted between 80 and 87 wins and has fallen short of the playoffs, extending the drought to 21 seasons. The Blue Jays of the last decade have rarely been awful, but they’ve failed to be much better than just OK.
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Russell Martin isn’t what you’d call a flashy player nowadays, but very quietly he has made himself into an elite catcher.
When he was younger, the 31-year-old Montreal native really made a name for himself by hitting for above-average power and swiping more bases than any backstop in the business. In 2007 he fell one home run short of becoming the second catcher in MLB history to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in the same season.
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