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BLUE JAYS AGREE TO TERMS WITH SEVEN PLAYERS
The Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to terms on 2025 contracts with all seven of its arbitration-eligible players:
- INF Ernie Clement (US $1,975,000)
- INF Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (US $28,500,000)
- C Alejandro Kirk (US $4,600,000)
- RHP Alek Manoah (US $2,200,000)
- RHP Zach Pop (US $900,000)
- RHP Nick Sandlin (US $1,630,000)
- OF Daulton Varsho (US $8,200,000)
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BLUE JAYS ACQUIRE COFFEY, PAULINO, & BATISTA FOR JANSEN
The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired INF Cutter Coffey, INF Eddinson Paulino, & RHP Gilberto Batista from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for C Danny Jansen.
Coffey, 20, has spent the 2024 season at High-A Greenville, batting .238 with 12 doubles, 14 home runs, 46 RBI, a .463 SLG, and a .784 OPS. The 6-1, 190 lb. right-handed hitter was selected by the Red Sox in the 2nd round of the 2022 First-Year Player Draft, out of Liberty High School in Bakersfield, CA. The infielder has played a total of 171 Minor League contests across three levels, hitting .216 with 29 doubles, two triples, 20 home runs, and 81 RBI, spending time defensively at second base, third base, and shortstop.
Paulino, 22, has spent the 2024 season at Double-A Portland, hitting .263 with 16 doubles, three triples, three home runs, 35 RBI, 29 walks, 10 stolen bases, and a .740 OPS across 69 games. The Santiago, D.R., native was signed by the Red Sox as an international free agent in 2018. The 5-10, 155 lb. left-handed hitter has made 369 Minor League appearances for the Red Sox, batting .270 with 97 doubles, 25 triples, 28 home runs, 182 RBI, 70 stolen bases, and a .799 OPS.
Batista, 19, is currently in is second professional campaign, making a total of eight appearances (five starts) this season with the Florida Complex League Red Sox, posting a 3.92 ERA across 20.2 innings of work with 23 strikeouts, a 1.50 WHIP, and a .220 opponent batting average. The 6-0, 165 lb. right-hander was signed by the Red Sox as an international free agent in 2022. A native of the Dominican Republic, has made a total of 19 career Minor League appearances (14 starts), combining to go 1-6 with a 3.67 ERA in 61.1 total innings, recording 77 strikeouts, and a 1.19 WHIP.
Jansen, 29, appeared in 61 games for the Blue Jays in 2024, batting .212 with 13 doubles, six home runs, and 18 RBI. The Elmhurst, IL, native was selected by the Blue Jays in the 16th round of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, making his MLB debut for the club in 2018. Jansen has spent the entirety of his MLB career in Toronto, playing a total of 470 games for the Major League team, batting .222 with 72 doubles, a triple, 71 home runs, 214 RBI, and a .733 OPS.
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BLUE JAYS ACQUIRE RIVERA & PINANGO FOR PEARSON
The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired SS Josh Rivera & OF Yohendrick Pinango from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for RHP Nate Pearson.
Additionally, RHP Ryan Burr has been recalled from Triple-A Buffalo and will be active for today’s game, and RHP Jordan Romano has been transferred to the 60-day injured list (right elbow inflammation).
Rivera, 23, has appeared in 68 games for the Cubs Double-A affiliate in Tennessee this season, batting .169 with four doubles, two triples, four home runs, and 16 RBI, posting a .971 fielding percentage in 596.2 innings at shortstop. The Sebring, FL, native was selected by the Cubs in the 3rd round of the 2023 First-Year Player Draft, out of the University of Florida. The 6-2, 215 lb. right-handed hitter has played a total of 96 career Minor League games, across three levels, batting .199 with 22 extra-base hits and 32 RBI.
Pinango, 22, has split the 2024 campaign between High-A South Bend and Double-A Tennessee, combining to hit .263 with 18 doubles, three triples, nine home runs, 40 RBI, 45 walks, and a .797 OPS. The 5-11, 170 lb. left-handed hitter was signed by the Cubs as an international free agent in 2018. A native of Carora, Venezuela, the outfielder has played a total of 473 career Minor League contests, batting .272 with 100 doubles, 10 triples, 33 home runs, 220 RBI, and a .730 OPS.
Pearson, 27, has made 41 appearances for the Blue Jays this season, posting a 5.63 ERA with 51 strikeouts and a 1.55 WHIP. The 6-6, 255 lb. right-handed reliever was selected by the Blue Jays in the 1st round (28th overall) of the 2017 First-Year Player Draft, making his big league debut for the club in 2020. The Odessa, FL, native and former top prospect has made 93 career MLB appearances (5 starts), going 7-4 with a 5.21 ERA across 115.2 combined innings, recording a 10.12 strikeout per nine rate.
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ROCKET 7, MARLIES 3
LAVAL ROCKET (18-19-6-2 – 44 Points) vs.
TORONTO MARLIES (30-12-1-1 – 62 Points)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
| 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | FINAL | |
| LAVAL | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | 7 |
| TORONTO | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 3 |
GAME SUMMARY | GAME SHEET | PHOTOS | SCRUMS
SCORING SUMMARY
Laval: M. Bowey (2) (T. Dello, J. Ylonen), P. Abbandonato (9) (C. Schueneman, J. Ylonen), P. Dube (3) (M. Bowey, X. Simoneau), B. Gignac (5) (P. Dube, C. Schueneman), G. Bourque (9) (P. Abbandonato, O. Galipeau), A. Belzile (14) EN (Unassisted), J. Ylonen (9) EN (Unassisted)
Goaltender: C. Primeau (34/37) W
Toronto: B. McMann (9) SH (L. Shaw), D. Hunt (1) (A. Steeves), B. McMann (10) (L. Shaw, N. Abruzzese)
Goaltender: K. Petruzzelli (11/15) L, E. Källgren (8/9)
- Bobby McMann put the Marlies on the board shorthanded at 1:22 of the second period and scored at 17:15 of the third period. This was his first shorthanded goal of the season. He has 17 points (10 goals, 7 assists) in 19 games with the Marlies.
- Dryden Hunt scored at 15:19 of the second period. He has points (1-1-2) in consecutive games.
- Logan Shaw had the lone assist on McMann’s second period goal and the primary assist on McMann’s third period goal. He has 52 points (16 goals, 36 assists) in 45 games this season and is fourth overall in points. With his second assist of the game, Shaw has set a new career-high in total points through one season.
- Alex Steeves picked up the lone assist on Hunt’s second period goal. He has points (3-2-5) in four consecutive games.
- Nick Abruzzese recorded the secondary assist on McMann’s third period goal. He has 32 points (13 goals, 19 assists) in 45 games this season.
- Keith Petruzzelli stopped 11 of 15 shots he faced through 26:47 of action. Erik Källgren stopped 8 of 9 shots in relief.
TEAM NOTES
- The Marlies went 3-for-3 on the penalty kill and 0-for-3 on the power play. Toronto is 7-8-0-0 when not scoring on the power play and 15-8-0-1 when not allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
- Toronto had a 37-26 edge in shots in all situations. Bobby McMann and Logan Shaw led the Marlies with five shots on goal. Toronto is 14-7-0-0 when outshooting their opponent.
- The Marlies are 20-8-0-1 against North Division opponents and 5-1-0-0 against the Laval Rocket. Toronto has outscored Laval 27-21 through six games.
| RECORD WHEN Not scoring first 15-8-0-0 Trailing after 1st 4-6-0-0 Trailing after 2nd 4-9-0-0 At home 12-7-0-1 February 1-1-0-0 Saturday 10-4-0-1 | MARLIES LEADERS *Amongst active players Goals 19 (A. Gaudette) Assists 36 (L. Shaw) Points 52 (L. Shaw) PPG 9 (L. Shaw) Shots 138 (L. Shaw) +/- +7 (M. Kokkonen) PIMS 80 (N. Hoefenmayer) |
POSTGAME QUOTES
On today’s game:
Certainly, the first period wasn’t what we wanted. They, as we expected, came out really hard and physical. They set up their forecheck game before we did. We weren’t able to start the sequence of events that allowed us to play like we did yesterday. Defensively in our D zone, we didn’t box out, we didn’t protect our goalie. A couple rebound goals there were a sign of that. As the game went on, obviously there was a response by our team. They’ve done a lot of good work this year and they know what it takes to be competitive. Just a little let down I guess on wanting to finish off strong here in these 60-minutes before the break today.
BOBBY McMANN (2 GOALS)
On today’s game:
I think we thought it was going to be easier than it was at the start. We’ve got to know there’s no easy night. We got behind and then I don’t think we stuck to what we had success with the last game, and that was just getting pucks behind and skating and using our skill once we got into their zone. We were trying to be a little too fancy with it early on and that bit us pretty hard.
UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time
February 10 at Charlotte – 7:00 p.m.
February 11 at Charlotte – 6:00 p.m.
February 13 vs. Manitoba – 7:00 p.m.
February 15 vs. Utica – 11:00 a.m.
February 17 at Rochester – 7:05 p.m.
Maple Leafs at Flyers
CLEVELAND 5, MARLIES 1
CLEVELAND MONSTERS (9-6-0-2 – 20 Points) vs.
TORONTO MARLIES (11-6-1-0 – 23 Points)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2022
1 2 3 OT FINAL
CLEVELAND 2 0 3 — 5
TORONTO 1 0 0 — 1
GAME SUMMARY | GAME SHEET | PHOTOS | SCRUMS
SCORING SUMMARY
Cleveland: J. Luoto (2) PP (C. Clayton, J. Greaves), E. Bemstrom (9) (K. Marchenko), C. Fonstad (4) PP (O. Sillinger, C. Clayton), J. Richards (5) (E. Bemstrom, J. Luoto), J. Luoto (3) EN, SH (Unassisted)
Goaltender: J. Greaves (41/42) W
Toronto: L. Shaw (8) PP (S. Der-Arguchintsev, A. Steeves)
Goaltender: K. Petruzzelli (29/33) L
ON THE SCORESHEET
- Logan Shaw opened the scoring on the power play at 7:00 of the first period. He has points (1-1-2) in consecutive games. He has 21 points (8 goals, 13 assists) in 18 games this season.
- Semyon Der-Arguchintsev recorded the primary assist on Shaw’s first period goal.
- Alex Steeves picked up the secondary assist on Shaw’s first period goal. He has points (1-1-2) in consecutive games.
- Keith Petruzzelli stopped 29 of 33 shots he faced.
TEAM NOTES - The Marlies went 0-for-2 on the penalty kill and 1-for-4 on the power play. Toronto is 11-4-1-0 when scoring on the power play and 5-4-1-0 when allowing a goal on the penalty kill.
- Toronto had a 42-34 edge in shots in all situations. Logan Shaw led the Marlies with seven shots on goal. Toronto is 6-3-0-0 when outshooting their opponent.
- The Marlies are 8-4-0-0 against North Division opponents and are 1-1-0-0 against the Cleveland Monsters.
RECORD WHEN
Scoring first 8-4-1-0
Trailing after 1st 1-2-0-0
Trailing after 2nd 2-4-0-0
At home 4-3-0-0
November 6-4-1-0
Saturday 6-1-0-0 MARLIES LEADERS *Amongst active players
Goals 12 (A. Gaudette)
Assists 13 (L. Shaw)
Points 21 (L. Shaw)
PPG 5 (L. Shaw)
Shots 60 (A. Gaudette)
+/- +7 (M. Rifai)
PIMS 33 (M. Rifai)
POSTGAME QUOTES
HEAD COACH GREG MOORE
On today’s game:
Power play helped us get the lead. Generally speaking, I thought five-on-five we had a pretty good game. Their goalie made a lot of good saves. Thought we controlled the game at even-strength for the most part. We just had a hard time cracking the code on getting pucks through him. Towards the end in the third period, they had a little bit of a push. Obviously playing a team back-to-back on a weekend, it’s really hard to beat a team twice and they were super motivated to not lose two in a row to us. Overall if we’re looking at our process, there are games this year our special teams and goaltending have won us the game even when we may not have controlled the game. I see this as a fourth game now where we’re playing much better, more consistent in controlling the game at even-strength. Today we just couldn’t find the bounces.
On the Rich Clune retirement ceremony:
Just trying to hold back the tears. Since I’ve been here, a lot has happened, and he’s been here the whole time since this season. As a head coach, you lean on your captain a lot. There’s a lot of conversations. We’re on the same page, pulling the rope in the same direction and you really need the perspective and voice of your captain to help you as a head coach to lead your team. I can’t say enough for what he’s done for me, for what he’s done for this organization and what he’s done for his teammates. He’s continuing to do it here as a development coach within the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. For all of us staff that have worked with him and been through thick and thin, it was great to celebrate him and the emotions were very positive.
UPCOMING GAMES:
*All times Eastern Standard Time
December 3 vs. Syracuse – 4:00 p.m.
December 4 vs. Belleville – 4:00 p.m.
December 7 vs. Belleville – 7:00 p.m.
December 9 at Syracuse – 7:00 p.m.
December 10 vs. Rochester – 4:00 p.m.
RAPTORS 105, MAVERICKS 100
| TORONTO RAPTORS POSTGAME NOTESSaturday November 26, 2022Game #19 | Home Game #9Attendance: 19,800 (sellout) |  | |
| DALLAS MAVERICKS(9-9) TORONTO RAPTORS(10-9) |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | FINAL SCORE | HIGH POINTS | HIGH REBOUNDS | HIGH ASSISTS | |
| Dallas | 29 | 23 | 21 | 27 | 100 | Doncic – 24 | Doncic – 7 | Doncic – 9 |
| Toronto | 24 | 30 | 27 | 24 | 105 | Anunoby/VanVleet – 26 | Boucher – 13 | VanVleet – 7 |
| KEY RUN |
Toronto went on a 30-13 run beginning at the 4:23 mark in the first quarter and ending with a pair of free throws from Gary Trent Jr. at 7:09 in the second frame … This run erased a 15-point Mavericks lead (22-7 at the 4:54 mark in the first quarter) … Dallas never led by more than a single point for the rest of the game.
| KEY STAT |
The Raptors outrebounded Dallas 48-to-34, including 17-4 on the offensive end … This led to a 25-5 (+20) advantage in second chance points … Toronto entered tonight’s contest tied for first in the NBA in second chance points (18.4) and offensive rebounds (13.7).
RAPTORS NOTES:
- The Toronto Raptors defeated the Dallas Mavericks 105-100 on Saturday night, splitting the season series 1-1 … Toronto now owns a 7-2 home record this season which they can extend on Monday vs. Cleveland before a two-game road trip (Nov. 30 – Dec. 2).
- Fred VanVleet returned to play Saturday night after missing the last game (Nov. 23) and three of his last five games (Nov. 12-23) due to a non-COVID illness … VanVleet scored 26 points (7-18 FG, 9-10 FT) and collected six rebounds, seven assists and one steal in 41 minutes of action … With his seven assists, VanVleet passed Alvin Williams for fourth on Toronto’s all-time assists list with 1,792 … It was his second 25/5/5 game this month (Nov. 6 vs. Chicago) and he joins Pascal Siakam as the two only two Raptors to record multiple 25/5/5 games this season … VanVleet also officially surpassed the 5,000 career-point milestone after scoring his first five points in the third quarter.
- Chris Boucher recorded a season-high 22 points (10-19 FG) and 13 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season … He has recorded a double-double in three consecutive games (Nov. 16-23) – which is second-longest streak on the team this season (Siakam – 4) – and is averaging 16.3 points and 13.0 rebounds in that span … Saturday’s performance is his second 20-point double-double of the season and 13th of his career.
- O.G. Anunoby recorded 12 of his shared game-high 26 points in the fourth quarter and added nine rebounds, two assists, two blocks and two steals in a season-high tying 43 minutes … He has recorded 20-or-more points in four of the last six games (Nov. 12-26) and seven times total this season which is second-most to Pascal Siakam who has recorded eight 20+ point games.
MAVERICKS NOTES:
- With the win, Dallas now sits at 9-9, including 1-6 on the road … The Mavericks will finish their three-game road trip (Nov. 23-27) tomorrow night in Milwaukee.
- Luka Doncic finished with a team-high 24 points and added nine assists, seven rebounds and two steals in 43 minutes tonight … Doncic has now scored 20-or-more in 17 consecutive games (Oct. 19 – Nov. 26), the longest streak in franchise history to begin a season … The only two Mavericks to have longer streaks of 20+ points are Mark Aguirre (two streaks) and Dirk Nowitzki (two streaks) … Doncic leads the NBA this season having tallied 16 games of 20+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists.
- Spencer Dinwiddie scored 15 points and added seven assists and two rebounds in 28 minutes … Dinwiddie has now scored 15+ points in three of the last four games (Nov. 18-26), shooting .550 (22-40) from the field and averaging 14.0 points during this span.
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| 2022-23 SEASON-SERIES | ALL-TIME RECORDS | |||||
| DATE | SITE | RESULT | RAPTORS WINS | MAVERICKS WINS | ||
| 11/04/22 | Dallas | L 111-110 | Overall: | 23 | 30 | |
| 11/26/22 | Toronto | W 105-100 | at Toronto: | 16 | 10 | |
| at Dallas: | 7 | 20 | ||||
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