{"id":697684,"date":"2026-05-27T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697684\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:33:41","slug":"blue-jays-sign-matt-bowman-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697684\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Sign Matt Bowman To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays are in agreement with reliever\u00a0Matt Bowman<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>. The 34-year-old sinkerballer (35 on Sunday) will presumably report to Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n

Bowman was granted his release last week after opting out of a non-roster deal with Minnesota. It was moderately surprising that a Twins team with one of the worst bullpens in MLB didn\u2019t carve out a spot. He pitched well at Triple-A St. Paul, working 21 1\/3 innings of 1.69 ERA ball. Bowman got ground-balls at a 55% clip with quality strikeout (28.1%) and walk (6.7%) marks.<\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s front office was evidently skeptical he\u2019d maintain anything close to that against big league hitters. Bowman\u2019s 7.1% swinging strike rate in the minors is well below average. He sits in the low-90s with his sinker while mixing in a cutter, slider and splitter. Bowman has pitched parts of seven MLB seasons with as many teams, logging the majority of his work with the Cardinals between 2016-18. He made 20 big league appearances with Baltimore last year, pitching to a 6.20 earned run average through 24 2\/3 frames.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s bullpen has been middle of the pack despite a top five strikeout rate. They lost a couple middle relievers, Tommy Nance<\/a> and Joe Mantiply<\/a>, to the injured list last week. They have a handful of middle relievers who have bounced up and down from Buffalo this season and could be sent down if they want to carve out a spot for Bowman at some point.\u00a0Chase Lee<\/a>,\u00a0Tanner Andrews<\/a> and\u00a0Adam Macko<\/a> have options remaining.\u00a0Yariel Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> does not but would likely clear waivers and accept a Triple-A assignment based on his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays are in agreement with reliever\u00a0Matt Bowman on a minor league contract, reports Jon Heyman of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,71771,591,85],"class_list":["post-697684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-matt-bowman","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697684","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=697684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}