{"id":379893,"date":"2025-12-31T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:20:08","slug":"report-blue-jays-agree-to-two-year-minor-league-deal-with-rhp-nic-enright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379893\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Blue Jays agree to two-year minor league deal with RHP Nic Enright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> are taking a shot at some pitching depth beyond the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p>Righty reliever Nic Enright has signed a two-year minor-league deal with the Blue Jays but will spend the 2026 season rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, ESPN&#8217;s Alden Gonzalez <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Alden_Gonzalez\/status\/2006379379031716188?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Enright, 28, had a solid 2025 season with the Cleveland Guardians after beating a case of Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. He pitched to a 2.03 ERA and 1.161 WHIP in 27 appearances before undergoing Tommy John surgery in early October.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s expected to return to the mound in 2027 should his recovery go according to plan. <\/p>\n<p>The Richmond, Va., native was selected by the Guardians in the 20th round of the 2019 Draft and made his major-league debut in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Enright was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin lymphoma in 2022 and underwent immunotherapy treatment in 2023, into the start of 2024. While undergoing treatment, he continued to pitch, earning a 4.97 ERA in 34 appearances across three minor-league levels in 2023. <\/p>\n<p>He improved to a 1.06 ERA in 16 triple-A appearances in 2024, parlaying his success into his breakout 2025 campaign to earn his MLB call-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays are taking a shot at some pitching depth beyond the 2026 season. Righty reliever&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-379893","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\/379893","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=379893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}