{"id":30707,"date":"2025-07-29T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30707\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:32:07","slug":"blue-jays-transfer-bowden-francis-to-60-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30707\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Transfer Bowden Francis To 60-Day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays announced today that infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wagnewi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Wagner<\/a> has been reinstated from the restricted list. Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodenal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alan Roden<\/a> has been optioned to Triple-A Buffalo as the corresponding active roster move. Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/francbo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bowden Francis<\/a> was transferred to the 60-day injured list to open a 40-man spot.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner landed on the restricted list just two days ago, as he stepped away from the team in order to attend is father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wagnebi02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billy Wagner<\/a>\u2019s Hall of Fame induction ceremony. In that two-day interim, the Jays used his 40-man spot. Catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kirkal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alejandro Kirk<\/a> was placed on the seven-day concussion IL yesterday, with fellow catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanchal04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ali S\u00e1nchez<\/a> selected to the roster to replace him. That meant that another 40-man spot needed to be opened for Wagner\u2019s return today.<\/p>\n<p>Francis landed on the 15-day IL on June 15th, due to a right shoulder impingement. His 60-day count is retroactive to that date, so he can be reinstated in mid-August. He hasn\u2019t yet begun a rehab assignment so it doesn\u2019t seem like a near-term return to health is in the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Orlando Ramirez, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays announced today that infielder Will Wagner has been reinstated from the restricted list. Outfielder Alan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23832,7239,49,48,82,23833],"class_list":["post-30707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alan-roden","tag-bowden-francis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-will-wagner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707","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=30707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}