{"id":555644,"date":"2026-03-21T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:05:08","slug":"blue-jays-release-right-handed-pitcher-connor-seabold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555644\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays release right-handed pitcher Connor Seabold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNEDIN, Fla. &#8212; Right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41367\/connor-seabold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Seabold<\/a> has been released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto said Saturday that Seabold was granted his release, making him a free agent. The Blue Jays also optioned right-handed pitcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5264531\/lazaro-estrada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lazaro Estrada<\/a> to Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Seabold had a 4.35 ERA without a decision in seven combined appearances with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> last season. He has gone 1-11 with a 7.79 ERA in 40 career appearances, including 19 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN, Fla. &#8212; Right-handed pitcher Connor Seabold has been released by the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto said Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-555644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555644","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=555644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}