Ricky Romero News

Toronto's pitching woes grew Friday with veteran reliever Darren Oliver placed on the 15-day disabled list with a left shoulder strain.

This week in Aspiring Jays, we look at the process that determines which young players will become the newest Blue Jays prospects.

According to a Shi Davidi tweet , the Blue Jays are expected to call up Sean Nolin from AA New Hampshire to start Friday's game for the Blue Jays.

Despite another rocky start for Ricky Romero , the bats were in gear as the Buffalo Bisons defeated the Charlotte Knights with a walk-off single by Andy LaRoche in the tenth inning to win 8-7. Ricky Romero lasted five innings on Tuesday night and only surrendered four hits but still walked six in giving up four runs.

Five innings in a triple-A start would have been enough to give Ricky Romero's confidence a big boost.

When the Blue Jays called down to Buffalo earlier this month for 39-year-old journeyman Ramon Ortiz, they knew what they were getting.

Thursday's games featured three major-leaguers trying to work their way back to the bigs.

The Blue Jays rolled into a key series with the Yankees here Friday riding a hot offence that will have to stay that way if the club is to make any noise in the AL East Division .

Despite winning six of their last nine games entering Wednesday, the Blue Jays still found themselves 9 1/2 games back of the American League East-leading Yankees and sat eight games below .500. As much as it's a cliche, the Blue Jays are just taking things one game at a time to try to make up ground on the hole that they've dug themselves into ... (more)

A 4-3 road trip at Tampa Bay and Boston has to be taken as a good sign. The Blue Jays have dug themselves a fairly massive hole and a week like last week could be the first step to finding their way out.

Ricky Romero made his first Triple-A start since being demoted back to the minors by the Blue Jays and looked very much like the pitcher who's 1-15 with a 7.60 ERA in the big leagues since last June.

"We weren't even talking about baseball," he said. "I wished her happy Mother's Day, told her I loved her.

The Blue Jays have been exposed in the past couple of weeks for having a lack of depth in the rotation, but the positive news is that some new candidates are about to enter the mix.

It was only the Blue Jays' 37th game of the 2013 season, but it has already come down to a scheduled start by a journeyman righthander named Diogenes Ramon Ortiz, a 39-year-old whose best seasons -- 44 of his 86 wins -- were with the Angels from from 2001-03. It should be noted, historically, Diogenes was a Greek philosopher who pioneered Cynicism ... (more)

The Blue Jays are still taking a wait and see approach when it comes to the status of right-hander Brandon Morrow.

Essentially conceding that they rushed him back to the big leagues before he was ready, the Blue Jays sent Ricky Romero back to the minors on Thursday morning, hours after the shortest outing of his career against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Ricky Romero's start Wednesday night didn't last very long. His stay on the Blue Jays' roster didn't last much longer.

JA Happ watched on as the Toronto Blue Jays fell to a 10-4 defeat against the Tampa Bay Rays.

So, surprisingly, of the pitchers that started for the Jays, in the last two days, the one that took a ball to the head was the one that had a better night.

The Toronto Blue Jays fashioned their first three-game winning streak of the season Tuesday - but they were in no mood to celebrate after seeing pitcher J.A. Happ take a line drive off the side of his head and leave the field on a stretcher.