{"id":455203,"date":"2026-02-05T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455203\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:40:08","slug":"blue-jays-josh-fleming-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455203\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays, Josh Fleming Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays reached agreement with left-hander\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/flemijo01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Fleming<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Alden_Gonzalez\/status\/2019252050375455020\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alden Gonz\u00e1lez of ESPN<\/a>. The Republik Sports client receives a non-roster invite to Spring Training.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming spent last season in Triple-A with the Mariners. The 29-year-old southpaw worked mostly out of the bullpen and struggled to a 4.91 ERA across 84 1\/3 innings. He got ground-balls at a 57.8% clip but had an 11.5% strikeout rate, the second-lowest mark among Triple-A pitchers with at least 50 innings. He\u2019s a sinkerballer who barely scrapes 90 MPH while mixing in a cutter, changeup and curveball.<\/p>\n<p>A former fifth-round pick by the Rays, Fleming has spent the majority of his career in the AL East. He pitched for Tampa Bay between 2020-23 and logged the \u201924 campaign with the Pirates. He carries a 4.77 ERA across 254 2\/3 major league innings. As was the case in Triple-A, he has thrown strikes and gotten a ton of grounders while barely missing any bats at the big league level. He\u2019ll likely begin the season at Triple-A Buffalo as long relief depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays reached agreement with left-hander\u00a0Josh Fleming on a minor league contract, reports Alden Gonz\u00e1lez of ESPN.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,186865,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-455203","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-josh-fleming","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455203","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=455203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}