DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays will be without third baseman
Brett Lawrie for at least the first four games of the regular
season.  Toronto announced on Monday morning that Lawrie will
begin the year on the 15-day disabled list. The transaction can
be backdated to March 22, which means Lawrie cannot be
reinstated until the club's fifth game of the season.  Lawrie, a
career .278 hitter, previously had been optimistic about being
ready for Opening Day, but that changed when his strained right
oblique muscle didn't improve as originally anticipated.  "It's
not a pain, it just doesn't feel like my other side, it just
feels like something is different," Lawrie said. "If something's
different, we've got to address that, we've got to get it
better, I've got to ease on the brakes here and let it get
better.  "I do everything I can possibly do in treatment, I can
only do so much treatment and ride the bike so many times, and
stretch. I can only do so much, it's going to get better when it
wants to. I've just got to gi