Blue Jays ready to give Gibbons another shot

J.P. Ricciardi intends to make good on a promise to his friend John Gibbons, but friendship only goes so far in major-league sports.

Heading into spring training, Ricciardi, the Toronto Blue Jays' general manager, promised he would not let his Gibbons, the Jays manager and Ricciardi's former minor-league roommate, dangle late into the season on the final year of his contract. And he appears to have made good on that, as word of Gibbons' imminent one-year contract extension is making the rounds.

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