Aaron Hill News

The envelopes are sealed, but not for long. Major League Baseball's Award season is upon us, and the Red Sox have some players who could well be recognized for their individual accomplishments in 2009.

Rays LF Carl Crawford won the Fielding Bible Award a the top leftfielder in the game according toa Bill James-led panel.

After much delay, it's time to get back to the positional review of Blue Jays prospects.

Crawford was voted best by the Fielding Bible's 10-man panel and was the first choice of nine, and second of the 10th, finishing with the highest vote total in the four-year history of the award.

Aaron Hill of the Toronto Blue Jays is the best defensive second baseman in baseball.

Aaron Hill was named the American League's Comeback Player of the Year on Tuesday as part of the 2009 Players Choice Awards.

Toronto has longed for sustained sports success. Unfortunately, Toronto's major sports franchises are the sort of bubbles we have become accustomed to on Wall Street: predictably irrational, fraught with initial excitement, built like a house of cards.

Carpenter, who won the award in 2004, returns from injuries to lead the N.L. in ERA and go 17-4. Hill recovers from a concussion to get career hits in homers, RBIs and runs.

Hardly a surprise that Ichiro would be the lone Mariners player named to this year's Sporting News AL all-star team .

The Seattle Mariners announced on Monday that catcher Kenji Johjima has decided to opt out of the last two years of his contract and return to play in Japan.

J.P. Ricciardi's long commute is over. The former Blue Jays general manager is firmly ensconced in his home in West Boylston after making the trip to and from Toronto for eight years.

After a night of frustration for the Toronto Blue Jays, it was the most improbable sort of ending.

Stephen Strasburg, the No. 1 pick in the June draft, made his pro debut for the Washington Nationals on Monday in an Instructional League game against Tigers' minor leaguers.

As the sun set on yet another disappointing season of baseball in Toronto, there were more questions of what will be in a season filled with questions of what could have been.A In a season that many predicted would be aA struggleA for the bluebirds, it turned out to be just that, but not before the Blue Jays gave fans a perspective of hope to begin ...

Police in South Carolina have charged two teens in the death of a man killed after he was shot on a porch during a robbery.

With the regular season finished and plenty to accomplish before spring training, new Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos jumped into his first full day on the job Monday.

Ricky Romero fired seven strong innings and the Blue Jays' bats produced five runs before he ever toed the rubber in a 7-2 Toronto win over Oakland.

Chris Carpenter has been voted NL comeback player of the year and Aaron Hill has won the AL award.

Baltimore Orioles Brian Roberts steals second base as Toronto Blue Jays Aaron Hill stops the throw in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, Oct.

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