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Blue Jays Staring Intently At Phillies

Jeff Blair of the Toronto Globe and Mail, who first reported the Phillies’ interest in Blue Jays starter AJ Burnett, said he spoke

with Toronto GM JP Riccardi.

While Riccardi denied talks between the Phils and Jays, he said his team was “sitting on” the Phillies as much as any other team:

“We’re just looking at making ourselves better, going forward.”

This all means little, but it seems there is definite truth to rumors of the Phils heavily looking at Burnett. David Murphy in his blog says it’s about a 40-60 shot the Phils would get Burnett.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.