Land of the Leaf

Slick fielding, light-hitting John MacDonald rarely lines anything other than a throw from shortstop.  Johnny Mac always seems to be left on the outside looking in when the season starts.  He’s been named the team’s shortstop before, only to concede the title to guys like Royce Clayton, and Marco Scutaro (the latter I can live with).  Maybe he was trying to send a message to his teammates, telling them to ‘toughen-up’, when he knocked a single off of former Jay A.J. Burnett’s arm in Thursday night’s 7-4 loss to the Skankees.

Fortunately, or not, Burnout was O.K., and joked about being lucky that it was only Johnny Mac.  A.J. showed a toughness in the first year of his contract with New York that he had failed to in his first two seasons as a Blue Jay.  Burnout would have certainly taken the opportunity to spend a couple weeks on the DL had this been the pre-Halladay A.J.  It’s going to be tough to watch him pitch in pinstripes.