BLUE JAYS: BYE-BYE, B.J.

Now that B.J. Ryan has had the dreaded Tommy John surgery and is gone for the year, Blue Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi's obfuscation over Ryan's condition really looks bush-league.

Fair or not, it's more ammo for the people who want J.P. and manager John Gibbons out of Toronto. No one will know if the Jays manipulated Ryan's elbow toward ruin, but it's a grey area that can easily be cast in black and white.

The gamut of injuries isn't Ricciardi's fault. The set of challenges and problems the organization go way beyond the GM's suite. That's just way too complicated to explain in one blog post, one newspaper column or maybe even a book. Besides, every plot needs a villain.

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