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Watching rookie Sean Nolin get roughed up by Baltimore on Friday night and subsequently get optioned back to Double A New Hampshire, I wondered about the Major League debuts of the rest of the Jays starters. Truth be told, there was only one that really stuck out. Well save that one for last. R.A. Dickeys first Major League appearnance was on April 22, 2001. This was well before he even considered throwing the knuckleball for a living. R.A. got one mop-up inning of relief for Texas in a blowout 11-2 home win over Oakland. It was a three-up , three-down affair. The most interesting thing is the catcher for the As that day was Sal Fasano, who is currently the Blue Jays roving minor league catching instructor. Lefty Mark Buehrle made his debut on July 16, 2000. He gave up one run in one inning of relief to Milwaukee. His first start three days later was far more impressive. Buehrle pitched seven innings against the Twins, giving up two runs on six hits and picking up the victory. Lefty J.A. Happ could commiserate with Nolin. Fresh off a call-up from the Ottawa Lynx of the International League on June 30, 2007, Happ got knocked around by the New York Mets. He only lasted four innings, giving up five runs, three of which were earned. He was sent back down by the Phillies after that game and wasnt called up for the rest of the season. Like Dickey, Josh Johnson debuted with a scoreless inning of relief on September 10, 2005. One year later, he was part of an historic rookie rotation with Florida. Johnson, along with Anibal Sanchez, Scott Olsen and Ricky Nolasco became the first rookie quartet in Major League history to rack up at least 10 wins apiece in one season. Brandon Morrow was the 5th pick overall in the 2006 draft by Seattle. He began his Mariners career less than a year later on April 3, 2007 versus Oakland. He pitched a scoreless inning of relief. He didnt make his first career start until the final month of the 2008 campaign on September 5 to be exact against the Yankees. Morrow was spectacular, pitching seven and two-thirds no-hit innings before Wilson Betemit broke it up. The Mariners won 3-1 and Morrow came within four outs of becoming just the second pitcher ever to throw a no-no in his first Major League start. Then you come to Ricky Romero. The lefthander made his first Major League appearance and start on April 9, 2009 versus Detroit and righthander Rick Porcello. They became the first two top draft picks ever to face each other in their Major League debuts. Romero won the battle, giving up two runs on seven hits over six innings and picking up the victory. We mentioned R.A Dickey off the top. In 2001, his first season with Texas, he only wound up working four games in relief. He had an 0-1 record with a 6.75 ERA. He gave up three homers in just 12 innings, walked seven and struck out four. He wouldnt get called back up to the big club until 2003. So Sean Nolin can take heart, a first Major League appearance doesnt neccessarily make or break a career. The Blue Jays fully expect he will be back. Cy Young Battle Its still a long way to go to the finish line but three young pitchers are at least in the conversation already for the Cy Young Award; two in the National League and one in the American League. Lefty Matt Moore has certainly picked up the slack for the injured David Price in Tampa Bay. The 23-year-old, who was an 8th round pick in 2007, is 8-0 with a 2.21 earned run average. With a little more run support, Matt Harvey of the Mets would be even better than his 5-0 start with a 1.93 ERA. The 24-year-old righthander was the seventh overall pick in the 2010 draft. Then you have Patrick Corbin, a 23-year-old southpaw with the Arizona Diamondbacks. A second round pick by the Angels in 2009 has the best numbers of all at 8-0 with a 1.71 ERA. 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Ideas fly and tongues loosen and your rumors are born.But it feels like weve heard all the rumors, and so many of the trades are already in the rear-view mirror. Thats fine. Under the protection of anonymity, theres so much more that those baseball people can teach a curious person.So I asked as many people as I could some version of these questions: What is the thing that would most surprise someone outside of baseball about what happens inside baseball? What were you shocked to learn when you got to peek under the hood? What do we not know about how the sport is run?The answers were as diverse as the roles of the people who gave them. But up and down the answwers from people all over baseballs front offices, three particular themes emerged.dddddddddddd.OwnershipIts underappreciated how much of an impact ownership has on every situation, one person told me.Fans see the general manager on television and think hes making every decision -- one characterized the GM as the face of the franchise. We think they have the ability to make every decision based on maybe a little constraint from an ownership-issued budget. But reality is fairly different.One member of a front office talked about deals that had been nixed because they reached a bit far into the clubs coffers. Others speculated that certain players had been signed because the owner willed it to be.And there arent just explicit decisions from ownership. ' ' '