Bieber has opted into his player option with the Blue Jays for the 2026 season, Sportsnet can confirm. <\/p>\n
The New York Post’s Jon Heyman was first to report the news on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Bieber will now enter the final year of a two-year, $26-million contract that he had originally signed with the Cleveland Guardians. The deal will carry a $16-million salary for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The former Cy Young winner enjoyed a solid return to the mound with the Blue Jays after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2024 and missing the better part of two seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In seven regular-season starts after being acquired by Toronto in July, the 30-year-old pitched to a 4-2 record with a 3.57 ERA and 1.017 WHIP in 40.1 innings. In five post-season appearances, he went 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA and 1.446 WHIP. He did give up the 11th-inning home run to Will Smith while pitching out of the bullpen in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Game 7 win in the World Series.<\/p>\n
The Orange, Calif., native enjoyed some productive years with the Guardians before undergoing Tommy John surgery. He won his Cy Young Award in 2020 after going 8-1 with a 1.63 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 77.1 innings, leading the American League in all Triple Crown categories in the COVID-19 shortened season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over his eight-year career, he has a 66-34 record with a 3.23 ERA and a 1.111 WHIP.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bieber has opted into his player option with the Blue Jays for the 2026 season, Sportsnet can confirm.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-262490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}