J.P. Arencibia blasted his fourth homer as part of a 3-for-4 effort Wednesday against the Yankees. He fanned in the eighth inning to fall a triple short of the cycle. Arencibia has rebounded nicely from a dismal April, batting 13-for-39 (.333) with three dingers this month to place his batting line at a more respectable .243/.282/.417.

J.P. Arencibia hit a three-run homer off the Angels' Dan Haren in Thursday's win. The homer was Arencibia's first since his walkoff blast in the 16th inning against the Indians on Opening Day. It's a safe bet that better power numbers are on the way. As for his batting average, well, that'll likely remain a problem.

J.P. Arencibia is not in Sunday's lineup against the Orioles. Arencibia is coming off an 0-for-4 performance and hasn't done much offensively outside of his game-winning home run on Opening Day. Jeff Mathis will catch Kyle Drabek and bat ninth.

J.P. Arencibia went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts in Wednesday's 3-1 victory over Boston. The young catcher played the hero with a game-winning homer on Opening Day. But he is now batting 2-for-22 (.091) with 11 strikeouts. Arencibia fanned 27.4 percent of the time last season and shows no signs of improvement thus far.

J.P. Arencibia hit a three-run homer in the top of the 16th Thursday to power the Indians past the Blue Jays in the longest Opening Day game on record. It looked like it'd be a quiet enough game before the Jays roared back with three runs in the ninth. After that, we got to see a five-man infield that worked out (Michael Brantley grounded into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the 12th) and a benches clearing incident after Luis Perez nearly beaned Shin-Soo Choo in the 15th. It finally ended in the 16th, with Perez getting the win for four scoreless innings of work.

J.P. Arencibia went 2-for-5 and hit his third spring homer Saturday against the Phillies. Arencibia started the spring 0-for-8, but he's 7-for-19 since. He'll get another year to attempt to establish himself as Toronto's long-term catcher. With Travis d'Arnaud on the way, Arencibia needs to improve both offensively and defensively if he's going to have a future with the Blue Jays.

J.P. Arencibia belted a three-run homer in Thursday's win over the Red Sox. In a typical Arencibia performance, he didn't get any other hits and struck out twice. The young backstop has had no trouble hitting for power in his first full season, ranking third among catchers with his 22 bombs, but he's sporting just a .221 batting mark.

J.P. Arencibia reached the 20-homer mark with a two-run blast in Thursday's loss to the Royals. Arencibia took Jeff Francis deep in the seventh inning and then added a sacrifice fly in the eighth. The rookie has tied the Blue Jays' single-season record for home runs by a catcher, and only Mike Napoli and Brian McCann have more longballs at the catcher position this season.

J.P. Arencibia's third inning solo homer would be all the offense the Blue Jays could muster in a lopsided loss to the Rays on Wednesday. Arencibia took James Shields deep. His 18th bomb of the season was his sixth in 10 games. He appears to be over the funk he was in for all of June and the first half of July.

J.P. Arencibia finished 2-for-3 with two RBI in Thursday's win over the Orioles. Arencibia has put together a nice string of games over the past week, hitting 6-for-17 (.353) with four homers and six RBI in his last five contests. His average remains anemic at .218, but his 16 homers and .451 slugging percentage are very strong for a catcher in his first full major league season.