{"id":412145,"date":"2026-01-14T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412145\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:59:11","slug":"mlb-makes-dylan-cease-announcement-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412145\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Makes Dylan Cease Announcement on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> starting pitcher Dylan Cease has had a successful career in Major League Baseball<\/a> to this point. In seven years in the majors, Cease has started 188 games with a record of 65-58. He’s pitched to a 3.88 ERA in 1,015 1\/3 innings with 1,231 strikeouts and 430 walks.<\/p>\n

After being drafted by the Chicago Cubs<\/a> in 2014, Cease made his big-league debut with the Chicago White Sox<\/a>, where he spent the first five years of his major-league career. The past two seasons, the right-hander has been in the San Diego Padres<\/a> rotation.<\/p>\n

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His contract with the Padres for the 2025 season was for just one year, making him a free agent this offseason, and the Blue Jays made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.<\/p>\n

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease with the San Diego Padres.Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

In November, Toronto signed the 30-year-old righty to a seven-year, $210 million contract<\/a>, which was the largest free agent deal in Blue Jays history.<\/p>\n

This massive contract came after a down year for Cease with San Diego in 2025. He went 8-12 in 32 starts with a 4.55 ERA, totaling 215 strikeouts and 71 walks in 168 innings. Despite his struggles last season, Toronto values him as one of the top arms in the majors.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, MLB<\/a> shared via its X account that MLB Network began its countdown of the top 100 players in baseball, and Cease was ranked at No. 100.<\/p>\n

He came in behind New York Yankees<\/a> left-handed pitcher Corlos Rodon (No. 99) and St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>designated hitter<\/a> Ivan Herrera (No. 98). Cease was the only Blue Jays player named on the list from Nos. 81-100<\/a>, which were released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

After an American League East title and a run to the World Series in 2025, the Blue Jays are hoping that Cease can be a big part of another deep postseason run next season.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jan 14, 2026, where it first appeared in the MLB<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Dylan Cease has had a successful career in Major League Baseball to this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,5158,5256,6108,48724,5882,591,86804,2704,5886,1189,85,2366,5161],"class_list":["post-412145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-dylan-cease","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-network","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412145","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=412145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}