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I always enjoy going over the baseball transactions every day just to follow the career paths of players or coaches, or even managers, I may have dealt with in the past. The other day, one name in particular caught my eye: Roy Howell signed on to be the manager of the Seattle Mariners Triple-A farm club in Tacoma. Of course, I had to make sure, it was the Roy Howell I was thinking of and it turns out it was. Roy Lee Howell came to the Blue Jays in their very first season in 1977. He had the fiery red hair and, later, the beard to go along with his gamer personality. Howell, a third baseman by trade, was the fourth-overall pick of the Texas Rangers in the 1972 draft. In the spring of 1977, he lost the Rangers third base job to longtime Rangers star Toby Harrah. Pat Gillick quickly pounced and pulled off his first significant in-season trade in franchise history on May 7 of that year, getting Howell in return for pitcher Steve Hargan, infielder Steve Mason and $200,000. Howell never had great numbers, in fact, his batting average peaked at .316 in 1977 and his best production year was 1979, when he 15 homers and knocked in 72 runs. But that first year with the Jays, he had a game for the ages at Yankee Stadium, no less. Howell slugged a pair of home runs, two doubles and a single, driving in nine runs as the Blue Jays came up with, by far, their biggest victory of their inaugural season pummeling the Yankees, 19-3. Those nine runs batted-in in a game is still a franchise record. Remember that 1977 was the year the Yankees won their first of back-to-back World Series. Howell spent four years with the Jays, then moved on as a free agent to the Milwaukee Brewers and finally to the San Francisco Giants. He came into managing late. Only three years ago in 2011, he became the skipper of the independent Pennsylvania Road Warriors of the Atlantic League. After that, he worked his way up in the Mariners organization as a hitting instructor. He wasnt actually supposed to be the skipper at Tacoma this year, but then fate stepped in. John Stearns, who was coaching on the Ms big league staff had to step down for health reasons. Rich Donnelly, a long time Major League coach, who had just been hired at Tacoma was promoted to Seattle to replace Stearns and, just like, that Howell, at age 60, was the new manager of the Rainiers. I looked back at that 1977 Blue Jays roster and its interesting, if not amazing, how many got involved in coaching or managing after their playing days were done. The most prominent include Alan Ashby, who went on to become an even better broadcaster, Phil Roof, Ernie Whitt, whos managed the Canadian mens team among others, Canadian Dave McKay, who worked for many years in Oakland and St. Louis with Tony LaRussa. I counted nine in total, including Doug "the Red Rooster" Rader, who had big league managerial stints with Texas, the White Sox and the Angels. Rader was also a coach on LaRussas staff in 1992, when they lost to the Blue Jays in the ALCS. Who knows? Maybe in the next couple of years Roy Howell will get his Major League shot. - Drew Hutchison will be starting for the Blue Jays Friday afternoon at Dunedin against Clay Buchholz and the Red Sox. If Hutchison continues to pitch the way he has this spring and holds his own against the BoSox, you can pretty much guarantee he will make the opening day roster as the number-four or five starter. Ricky Romeros big test is Tuesday at Lakeland against Detroit. Though Ricky has pitched well in two extended relief outings this spring, this will be his first start where he should face predominantly Major League hitters. If he gets through the outing unscathed, he will definately be in the conversation for the fourth or fifth starters slot. - The other day, a Tampa Bay Rays prospect by the name of Jeremy Moore crashed a monster home run off Marcus Stroman over the "batters eye" in dead centre field at Dunedin and drew the praise of skipper Joe Maddon. I wanted to learn a little bit more about Moore, so I did a little digging. He was a sixth-round pick of the Angels in 2005, a speedy outfielder who could handle all three positions well. Though he seemed to be progressing well through the minors, he was bothered by a bone spur and other issues in his hip. That seemed unusual for somebody so young, but doctors felt the beatings he took as a four-sport star in growing up in Louisiana, including football, had done the damage. Moore ultimately had to undergo hip surgery at age 24, though, thankfully, not hip replacement surgery like Bo Jackson. Moore missed the entire 2012 season before signing a minor-league deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. After batting .211 with seven homers and 31 runs batted in last season in his comeback year, the Rays saw enough in him to sign Moore in January. Though he may be a long shot to make the Tampa Bay opening day roster, he has hit four homers this spring and has the versatility the Rays covet. Impressing Joe Maddon doesnt hurt either. Jeremy Moore is the kind of player you really pull for. - Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York pointed out that the Blue Jays could be on hand in New York for "Derek Jeter Day." Sunday, September 21, the Blue Jays are in New York and that is the Yankees final Sunday home game of the regular season. Nothing is official yet, but the Yanks did hold "Mariano Rivera Day" on the final Sunday of last season. So there is a chance, the Blue Jays will be part of the grand farewell of one of the Yankees all-time greats. 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Im not helping them out at all.BOISBRIAND, Que. -- Danick Martel, Samuel Hodhod and Nikita Jevpalovs each scored twice as the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada toppled the Gatineau Olympiques 6-4 on Sunday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Martel also had a pair of assists for Blainville-Boisbriand (26-6-7), which remains the top club in the QMJHL, and now leads his team with 42 points in 38 games played. Frank Schumacher, Derek Sheppard, Taylor Burke and Marc Beckstead scored for the Olympiques (24-14-1). Etienne Marcoux stopped 35 shots for the Armada while Anthony Brodeur turned aside 26-of-31 shots for Gatineau. Both clubs went 1 for 8 on the power play. --- TITAN 4 ISLANDERS 0 BATHURST, N.B. -- Alexandros Soumakis scored twice and Jacon Brennan made 35 saves as the Titan blanked Charlottetown. Christophe Boivin and Scott Oke also scored for Acadie-Bathurst (15-20-4) while Matthew Boudreau chipped in with three assists. Guillaume Riox-Legault was a team-worst minus-3 for the Islanders (15-20-5) and Alexis Pepin led his club with six shots on net. Eric Brassard turned aside 36-of-40 shots for Charlottetown. --- SEA DOGS 2 WILDCATS 1 MONCTON, N.B. -- Kelly Bents goal at 14:09 of the second period stood up as the winner as Saint John halted the Wildcats nine-game win streak. Spencer Smallman opened the scoring for the Sea Dogs (10-24-3) at 12:37 of the first period and Bailey Webster assisted on both of his clubs goals. Christophe Lalonde scored for Moncton (21-18-2), ruining Sebastien Augers shutout bid with 18 seconds remaining in the game. Auger made 30 saves for Saint John as Alex Dubeau stopped 22-of-24 shots for the Wildcats. --- SAGUENEENS 3 DRAKKAR 0 CHICOUTIMI, Que.-- Domenic Graham kicked out 41 shots for his second-career shutout as the Sagueneens handed Baie-Comeau its third loss in a row. Simon Tremblay had a goal and an assist for Chicoutimi (20-19-1) and Sebastien Sylvestre and Jasmin Boutet each scored once. Graham was his busiest in the second period when the Drakkar put 18 shots at him, compared to just three shots on net for the Sagueneens. Baie-Comeaus (24-11-4) Simon Lemieux turned aside 20-of-23 shots in a losing cause. --- VOLTIGEURS 5 PHOENIX 3 DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. -- Frederick Gaudreau scored twice and Jerome Verrer tacked on two assists as the Voltigeurs extended their win streak to seven games by downing Sherbrooke. Matthew Boudens,, Joey Ratelle and Christophe Lalancette each had a goal and an assist for Drummondville (26-11-2).dddddddddddd. Jason Houde had two goals and an assist for the Phoenix (13-23-4), who have dropped four straight contests, and Alexandre Sills had a goal and an assist. Joe Fleschler made 14 saves for the Voltigeurs while Francis Desrosiers stopped 38-of-43 shots for Sherbrooke. --- HUSKIES 3 FOREURS 2 ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. -- Mathieu Lemay broke a 2-2 tie at 19:23 of the third period with a power-play goal as the Huskies slipped past Val-dOr. Alexandre Leclerc and Jean-Sebastien Dea also scored for Rouyn-Noranda (23-10-5), which is 4-0-2 in its last six outings. The Foreurs (26-13-1) got goals from Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Anthony Beauregard. Alexandre Belanger made 21 saves for the Huskies as Val-dOrs Keven Bouchard stopped 30-of-33 shots in defeat. --- TIGRES 5 CATARACTES 0 VICTORIAVILLE, Que. -- Brandon Whitney made 22 saves for his ninth-career shutout as the Tigres crushed Shawinigan. Carl Marois and Angelo Miceli each had a goal and an assist for Victoriaville (15-17-6) while Jonathan Diaby, Samuel Blais and Ross Johnston added a goal apiece. Maxime Lagace stopped 31-of-35 shots for the Cataractes (9-27-3). Shawinigans Simon Boudreau was given a game misconduct at 12:33 of the second period for checking from behind. --- SCREAMING EAGLES 5 MOOSEHEADS 4 SYDNEY, N.S. -- Clarke Bishop scored twice in the third period as Cape Breton came from behind to defeat Halifax and snap its four-game slide. Charles-Eric Legare had a goal and two assists for the Screaming Eagles (20-16-3), who trailed 3-2 after 40 minutes, while Jeremy Beaudry and Kyle Farrell scored the others. Andrew Schefelt had a pair of goals for the Mooseheads (24-15-1) and MacKenzie Weegar and Vincent Watt each scored once. Alex Bureau made 29 saves for Cape Breton as Kevin Darveau turned away 22-of-27 shots for Halifax. --- OCEANIC 3 REMPARTS 2 (SO) RIMOUSKI, Que. -- Dominic Beauchemin scored the winner as the Oceanic downed Quebec in a shootout. Tyler Boland and Alexis Loiseau scored in regulation for Rimouski (22-11-7). Anthony Duclair forced overtime for the Remparts (20-11-8) with a goal at 19:50 of the third period and Kurt Etchegary scored the other. Zachary Fortin made 22 saves for the Oceanic as Quebecs Francois Brassard turned aside 40 shots in defeat. ' ' '