{"id":285276,"date":"2025-11-15T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285276\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:20:17","slug":"blue-jays-outright-rhp-nick-sandlin-clear-space-on-40-man-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/285276\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays outright RHP Nick Sandlin, clear space on 40-man roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-handed reliever <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"1458283f-6a58-4f58-9bbb-7160086b9bc8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/nick-sandlin\/1458283f-6a58-4f58-9bbb-7160086b9bc8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nick Sandlin<\/a> was outrighted to the Buffalo Bisons and removed from the 40-man roster, per the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/bluejays\/roster\/transactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transaction list<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The move amounts to an early non-tender, which signals that the Blue Jays&#8217; front office was likely preparing to not offer Sandlin a contract during their upcoming arbitration proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he&#8217;s headed to free agency.<\/p>\n<p>An injury-plagued 2025 season hampered the right-hander&#8217;s availability as he pitched in only 16.1 innings with a 2.20 ERA and a 1.163 WHIP while dealing with inflammation in his right arm.<\/p>\n<p>The change makes room on the roster for incoming free agents as well as Rule 5-eligible players who need to be protected by Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. ET., in order to be safe from selection by other clubs during the draft on Dec. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s eligible players include top prospects Ricky Tiedemann, Yohendrick Pinango, Victor Arias, Josh Kasevich and Edward Duran.<\/p>\n<p>Sandlin was acquired alongside infielder Andres Gimenez from the Cleveland Guardians this past off-season in a three-team trade including the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>He was projected by MLB Trade Rumors to earn $2 million in salary during the upcoming arbitration process.<\/p>\n<p>Other arbitration eligible players on the Blue Jays major-league roster include Daulton Varsho, Ernie Clement, Eric Lauer and Tyler Heineman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-handed reliever Nick Sandlin was outrighted to the Buffalo Bisons and removed from the 40-man roster, per the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-285276","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\/285276","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=285276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}