Dustin McGowan News

Munenori Kawasaki tries hovering in his new batting stance, but finds it hard to drive power from his legs that way.

Jamie Evans has helped a countless number of pitchers over the years with his Velocity Program, and it has now resulted in a job with the Blue Jays.

They've already used more players than the average team did for all of 2012. This is not what the 'R' in WAR was meant to represent.

Pressed on the issue in recent days, Rangers manager Ron Washington kept insisting his club would snap out of its uncharacteristic funk at the plate.

We scored 4 in the 3rd inning, 3 of them on Adam Lind's 4th home run of the season.

There were some great pitching performances as the Blue Jays minor league affiliates had a clean sweep in a 5-0 day.

It looked at first as if it would be a good clean win for the Blue Jays over Yu Darvish and the visiting Texas Rangers in front of an announced near-capacity crowd of 44,079 at the Rogers Centre.

Sep 6, 2011; Toronto, ON, Canada; Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dustin McGowan against the Boston Red Sox at the Rogers Centre.

It was a clean sweep on Wednesday night as all four of the Blue Jays minor league affiliates in action lost.

Thad Weber started for the Bisons and let in three runs in his four innings which was more than enough for the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs to beat Buffalo 4-0 on Tuesday.

The Buffalo Bisons won their thirtieth game on the backs of a great Justin Germano start and some good hitting to beat the Norfolk Tides 7-4 on Sunday.

Toronto Blue Jays starter Josh Johnson made his final rehab appearance and Dustin McGowan also pitched for the Buffalo Bisons on Thursday night.

While Ricky Romero bombed yet again in his fourth start for the Buffalo Bisons, teammate Mauro Gomez launched two bombs of his own.

Toronto's former No. 1 starter got the call for Triple-A Buffalo on Monday night, but was unable to pitch his way out of the first inning.

Friday featured a light schedule in the Blue Jays' system as Sean Nolin made his major league debut .

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

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.

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Ricky Romero sits in the dugout after being removed during the first inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in St.

There was a flurry of activity on Friday and Saturday with a shuffling of minor league pitching.