Free-agent first baseman Edwin Encarnacion and free-agent outfielder Jose Bautista?each rejected one-year, $17.2 million qualifying offers from the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday as they will seek new contracts on the open market.Encarnacion, 33, rebounded from a slow start to the 2016 season to reach career highs in home runs (42) and RBIs (127), the latter tying for the American League lead. Overall, he slashed .263/.357/.529 across 702 plate appearances.The 36-year-old Bautista was limited to 116 games as a result of injuries, but still managed to swat 22 home runs and knock in 69 runs while slashing .234/.366/.452.Bautista and Encarnacion have been fixtures in the middle of the Blue Jays lineup for the better part of the last decade, arriving in Toronto in 2008 and 2009, respectively.The Blue Jays will receive a?compensatory draft pick if Encarnacion or Bautista sign with another team.Chris Cotillo of SB Nation first reported Encarnacions decision, while Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports first reported Bautistas decision. Randy Arozarena Cardinals Jersey .S. Open champion Justin Rose birdied the first hole with a blind shot he hit to a foot of the pin, and he stayed in front Tuesday until he completed a 4-under 67 for a two-shot lead over Jason Dufner in PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Matt Carpenter Jersey . Jon Montgomerys gold medal in skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre and his subsequent auctioning off of a pitcher of beer in the village square elevated him to folk-hero status. https://www.cheapcardinalsonline.com/394t-john-gant-jersey-cardinals.html . After dropping their final six games of December, the Wild opened the new calendar year with four consecutive wins. Following a loss to Colorado on Saturday, Minnesota rebounded the following night to blank Nashville 4-0, but then had the tables turned on them Tuesday. Lou Brock Jersey .Y. -- The Buffalo Sabres have placed centre Cody Hodgson on injured reserve and recalled two players from their AHL affiliate in Rochester. Justin Williams Jersey . Each of Houstons starters scored in double figures as the Rockets improved to 2-0 against the Spurs this season, with both victories coming on the road. They also moved within 3 1/2 games of San Antonio (22-7) for the lead the Southwest Division. TROON, Scotland -- With his cap on backward, Billy Horschel placed his ball on the tee and smashed his drive down No. 18 without even taking a practice swing.After the biggest second-round collapse in British Open history, the American might already have been thinking of home.The cut mark dropped to 4-over par late Friday after a flurry of high scores in the wind and rain among the afternoon starters at Royal Troon.Bubba Watson and Danny Willett, both Masters champions, made clutch putts at the last hole to make the weekend. Others, including Horschel, were too far gone by the time they reached the 18th.Horschel, who began the second round at 4 under, made four double bogeys or worse and shot the high score of the day, 14-over 85. Only one player in British Open history had a larger differential than Horschels 18 shots between the first and second rounds. Robin Davenport went from a 94 to a 72 in 1966 at Muirfield.No player has had a bigger meltdown over the first two rounds, and Horschels 18-stroke variation is the biggest at the Open since Colin Montgomerie went 64-84 in his second and third rounds at Muirfield in 2002.Horschel wound up on 10 over par.Former champion Louis Oosthuizen, who lost out to Zach Johnson in a three-man playoff at St. Andrews last year, made 9 on the par-4 11th and shot 12-oover 83.dddddddddddd The South African had a 12-over total and, as the world No. 14, was the highest-ranked player to depart.The only time Oosthuizen had a score better than par over his 36 holes was his hole-in-one on No. 14 in the first round.Shane Lowry, the 54-hole leader at last months U.S. Open, battled hard to shoot an even-par 71 in the afternoon but was undone by his opening-round 78.I played like Ben Hogan today and Hulk Hogan yesterday, Lowry said.Two-time Open champion Ernie Els would have made the cut with a par on No. 18. He drove into a fairway bunker and made bogey.Hideki Matsuyama of Japan covered his face with his cap after shooting 78 in his second round. Playing in a standout group with Rory McIlroy and Watson, the 17th-ranked Matsuyama had an 8-over total.Former Open champions Justin Leonard, Todd Hamilton, and Mark Calcavecchia all missed the cut. As did another, Ben Curtis, who visited three separate bunkers and took six shots in the sand to make 10 on the third hole. He shot 83.Paul Dunne was the joint third-round leader at St. Andrews in 2015, when he was an amateur. He didnt make the weekend in his first Open as a professional after shooting 77-78. ' ' '