Jays now look like long shots

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Roy Halladay and Gustavo Chacin had recovered from elbow strains, and the Blue Jays hoped B.J. Ryan would bounce back, too. When the Rangers were in Texas last weekend, the Toronto training staff gave Ryan a rudimentary stress test to check his elbow, after a couple of weeks of rest.

When Halladay and Chacin had been tested like this last year, they immediately reported improvement. But Ryan did not; he was in serious pain, GM J.P. Ricciardi recalled, and this is the time when everybody knew he was going to have his ulnar collateral ligament rebuilt. He had the surgery Thursday.  
 

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