Former Toronto starter Alek Manoah, now with the L.A. Angels, was released by the team in September before playoffs.

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The Toronto Blue Jays have one of the most intriguing projected starting rotations in Major League Baseball next season. Not much is solidified beyond ace Kevin Gausman and newcomer Dylan Cease, fresh ...

For more than a decade, novelist Ace Atkins kept a rigorous schedule and a prolific pace in his small writing office in Oxford, Mississippi. A cup of coffee, and then to work, writing 21 books – 11 in ...