{"id":355423,"date":"2025-12-18T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:20:23","slug":"guardians-get-relief-help-deal-for-blue-jays-lefty-bruihl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355423\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians get relief help, deal for Blue Jays lefty Bruihl"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — Left-hander Justin Bruihl<\/a> was traded Wednesday from the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> to the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>, who cut 2024 postseason star Jhonkensy Noel<\/a> to open a roster spot.<\/p>\n

Toronto received cash from Cleveland in the trade.<\/p>\n

Noel, who was designated for assignment, hit a tying, two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning off the New York Yankees<\/a>‘ Luke Weaver<\/a> in Game 3 of the AL Championship Series, a game Cleveland won 7-5 when David Fry<\/a> homered in the 10th.<\/p>\n

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Noel, 24, hit .162 with six homers and 13 RBIs in 69 games this year and has a .193 average with 19 homers and 41 RBIs over 136 games in two regular seasons with the Guardians.<\/p>\n

Bruihl was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays on Monday to open a roster spot for reliever Tyler Rogers<\/a>, who agreed to a $37 million, three-year contract. Bruihl, 28, had a 5.27 ERA in 15 relief appearances this year.<\/p>\n

He has a 4.72 ERA in 92 relief appearances for the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (2021-23), Colorado (2023), Pittsburgh (2024) and Toronto (2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — Left-hander Justin Bruihl was traded Wednesday from the Toronto Blue Jays to the Cleveland Guardians, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-355423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}