{"id":454903,"date":"2026-02-05T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454903\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:19:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-lhp-josh-fleming-strike-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454903\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays, LHP Josh Fleming strike minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> have reached a minor-league deal with left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/josh-fleming\/1055166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/josh-fleming\/1055166\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Fleming<\/a>, according to ESPN\u2019s Alden Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fleming will receive an invite to spring training, reports Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: LH Josh Fleming is in agreement on a minor league deal with a spring training invite with the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming, 29, spent last season with the Mariners&#8217; Triple-A affiliate and has posted a 4.77 ERA in 80 games (25 starts) with the Rays and Pirates in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alden Gonz\u00e1lez (@Alden_Gonzalez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alden_Gonzalez\/status\/2019252050375455020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old Missouri native spent last season at Triple-A Tacoma, an affiliate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/seattle-mariners\/236\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/seattle-mariners\/236\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a>. He posted a 5.66 ERA with 44 strikeouts in 84.1 innings pitched spread out over 47 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He most recently pitched in the majors with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> in 2024, turning in a 4.02 ERA in 25 outings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He spent the previous four seasons of his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> after making his MLB debut during the 2020 campaign. Fleming has a 4.77 ERA in 80 career appearances.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have reached a minor-league deal with left-hander Josh Fleming, according to ESPN\u2019s Alden Gonzalez.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,186803,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-454903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-josh-fleming-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1055166","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454903","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=454903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}