{"id":467543,"date":"2026-02-11T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467543\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:17:07","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-sign-canadian-phillippe-aumont-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467543\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays sign Canadian Phillippe Aumont to minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty-seven-year-old pitcher Phillippe Aumont appears to be making a comeback.<\/p>\n

According to his MLB.com transactions page<\/a>, the Canadian right-hander is coming out of retirement and joining the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> on a minor-league deal. <\/p>\n

A native of Gatineau, Que., Aumont is on Canada\u2019s roster for next month\u2019s World Baseball Classic and has worn the Maple Leaf several times in international competition.<\/p>\n

Aumont last pitched in the big leagues during the 2015 season with the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> and most recently played affiliated ball in the Detroit Tigers<\/a>\u2019 system in 2018, recording a 6.23 ERA in 31 games combined between Double and Triple-A.<\/p>\n

Selected in the first round of the 2007 MLB Draft (No. 11 overall) by the Seattle Mariners<\/a>, Aumont was one of three players dealt to the Phillies in a deal involving former Cy Young winner Cliff Lee in 2009.<\/p>\n

Aumont made his debut with the Phillies in 2012 and pitched parts of four seasons with the organization, turning in a 6.80 ERA in 46 total outings.<\/p>\n

This is Aumont\u2019s third go-around with the Jays after he signed minor-league deals with the team in July of 2015 and in December of 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty-seven-year-old pitcher Phillippe Aumont appears to be making a comeback. According to his MLB.com transactions page, the Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-467543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","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\/467543","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=467543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}