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658:"Blue Jays To Select Max Castillo, Outright Bowden Francis"
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802:"Harrison Francis Minor Leagues Statistics & History"
737:"Bowden Francis Makes Blue Jays' Season-Opening Rotation"
618:"Blue Jays' Bowden Francis: Protected from Rule 5 draft"
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632:"Blue Jays' Bowden Francis: Earns first career call-up"
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165:Robert Bowden Francis
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1257:Alek Manoah
1230:Bo Bichette
1203:Nick Raposo
1072:Leo Jiménez
1048:Tommy Nance
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1163:Adam Macko
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1112:Chad Green
849:Retrosheet
847:, or
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502:References
475:in 1989.
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444:Dave Stieb
288:strikeouts
277:AdvancedâA
223:Early life
129:Strikeouts
56:1996-04-22
1388:Jeff Ware
1032:Ryan Burr
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721:March 22,
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562:April 25,
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91:MLB debut
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813:March 9,
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