Ricky Romero News

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.

When John Farrell began his arguably traitorous path back to his dream job in Boston, my first thought was how it would affect both the Blue Jays ' and Red Sox 's pitching staffs.

In a frightening scene at Tropicana Field, Desmond Jennings' second-inning liner caromed squarely off the left side of Happ's head with a loud "thwack!" that could be heard up in the press box.

If Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos ever wanted to make a change at manager, right now, for the good of the struggling franchise, he would not even need to fire John Gibbons.

In the span between the World Series and the opening day of Spring Training, general manager Alex Anthopoulos transformed the line-up, adding a bushel of talent from the Miami Marlins, and acquiring last year's National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey from the New York Mets.

According to Fox Sports' Jon Morosi in an afternoon tweet, Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Josh Johnson will be out with his injury until "late May." The first we heard of Johnson having a problem was back on April 26, when he was forced to make a start because of tightness in his triceps where it meets his biceps.

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Ricky Romero reacts after giving up a two-run home run to Seattle Mariners' Kyle Seager during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Friday, May 3, 2013.