{"id":34367,"date":"2025-07-30T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34367\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:09:30","slug":"blue-jays-acquire-seranthony-dominguez-from-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34367\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays acquire Seranthony Dominguez from Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> made their first move to bolster a bullpen in need of help ahead of the trade deadline, acquiring right-hander Seranthony Dominguez from the Baltimore Orioles for pitching prospect Juaron Watts-Brown, an industry source told Sportsnet.<\/p>\n<p>Completed between games of a doubleheader between the clubs, the 30-year-old right-hander with a fastball that averages 97.7 m.p.h. adds the type of power reliever essential for contending clubs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez also throws a sweeper, sinker, splitter and curveball, helping him strike out 54 batters in 41.2 innings with the Orioles, although he\u2019s also walked 24 and his 5.2 walks-per-nine is the highest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, with the status of Yimi Garcia uncertain and needing to bolster around a leverage group featuring closer Jeff Hoffman and set-up men Brendon Little and Yariel Rodriguez, Dominguez offers a major boost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And after switching clubhouses in between games during Tuesday&#8217;s doubleheader, it didn&#8217;t take long for Blue Jays manager John Schneider to call Dominguez&#8217;s number.<\/p>\n<p>Domignuez entered in the seventh inning against his former team and worked a scoreless frame, striking out Colton Cowser and Jackson Holliday and catching Dylan Carlson stealing with an inside move after he reached on a hit-by-pitch.<\/p>\n<p>For the pending free agent, the Blue Jays surrendered Watts-Brown, a third-rounder in 2023 who jumped from high-A Vancouver to double-A New Hampshire this season, posting a 3.84 ERA in 89 innings across 19 innings with 115 strikeouts between the two levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Sportsnet Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays made their first move to bolster a bullpen in need of help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-34367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367","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=34367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}