A.J. Burnett has visited, B.J. Ryan will do so next week and now the agent for Mike Piazza has called J.P. Ricciardi to gauge the Toronto Blue Jays' interest in his client. Baseball's off-season begins in earnest today when Ricciardi and his peers gather in Indian Wells, Calif., for baseball's annual general manager's meetings, but already this has been an off-season unlike many others. For Ricciardi, who is about to dip into the remaining $160-million (U.S.) of a three-year, $210-million payroll guarantee from ownership, it's the first chance he's had to play the high roller -- hence the interest from Dan Lozano, the agent for iconic New York Mets catcher and free-agent Piazza.