Dana Brown has been hired as a special assistant to new Toronto Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos. The 42-year-old Brown spent the past eight seasons as director of scouting for the Washington Nationals and Montreal Expos. It was with Montreal that Brown first met Anthopoulos ...

New Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos shook up his front office on Friday with a raft of changes to the team's scouting and development departments. Former assistant general manager Tony LaCava was hired as director of player personnel, Charlie Wilson was named director of minor ...

J.P. Ricciardi, who has been with the team for eight years, was fired by the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday. Assistant general manager Alexander Anthopoulos will take over for Ricciardi. He was named the assistant general manager in January of 2006. Anthopoulos worked for the Montreal Expos before joining the Blue Jays organization. Heading into the weekend Toronto had ...

J.P. Ricciardi is out as the Toronto Blue Jays' general manager. As for embattled manager Cito Gaston, he isn't going anywhere. The Blue Jays fired Ricciardi on Saturday, ending an eight-year tenure marked by an inability to get past the Yankees and Red Sox ...