{"id":266297,"date":"2025-11-06T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266297\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:51:09","slug":"blue-jays-discussing-extension-with-manager-john-schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266297\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Discussing Extension With Manager John Schneider"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays have had conversations with manager John Schneider about a contract extension, GM Ross Atkins confirmed at today\u2019s end-of-season press conference (relayed by Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet<\/a>). It seems likely that\u2019ll get done at some point this offseason. For the moment, Atkins confirmed that the Jays have officially exercised their 2026 option on Schneider\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n

Schneider took over the position on an interim basis when Charlie Montoyo was fired halfway through the 2022 season. The Jays removed the interim tag and signed him to a three-year contract with an option over the offseason. The guaranteed portion of the deal expired at the end of this past season. The Jays weren\u2019t going to make a managerial change on the heels of an American League title.<\/p>\n

It was a formality that they\u2019d exercise the option and entirely expected they\u2019d open talks on a multi-year deal. Most teams prefer not to have their managers or top front office personnel working on expiring contracts. That\u2019s especially true when the manager led the team tantalizingly close to a championship. The Jays pushed the Dodgers to the brink in Game 7 of the Fall Classic. They were a blown save and\/or one timely hit away from their first title in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n

As is the case with any manager, Schneider has made some decisions that came under fire with the fanbase. His handling of the pitching staff during the 2023 Wild Card series loss to the Twins was heavily criticized. One can quibble with how aggressively he pinch ran for many of his best hitters in Game 3 of this year\u2019s World Series, which left the Jays with a mostly punchless lineup in a game that went 18 innings.<\/p>\n

Still, the Jays have won just over 54% of their regular season games over three-plus years with Schneider at the helm. He has led the team to two postseason berths, an AL championship, and fostered what appears to be a close-knit clubhouse. That came into play when Shane Bieber<\/a> exercised<\/a> a below-market player option to give things another go in Toronto. The Jays\u2019 offseason focus will be on getting a long-term deal done with\u00a0Bo Bichette<\/a> and further addressing the pitching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays have had conversations with manager John Schneider about a contract extension, GM Ross Atkins confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,26794,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-266297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-john-schneider","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266297","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=266297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}