{"id":469215,"date":"2026-02-12T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469215\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:40:08","slug":"blue-jays-lose-chris-bassitt-to-orioles-as-al-east-intrigue-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469215\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Lose Chris Bassitt to Orioles As AL East Intrigue Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">Not only is everyone in the American League East seemingly going to be good this year, but there are an awful lot of players switching teams within the division. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">On Wednesday night, starting pitcher Chris Bassitt became the latest to join that trend, as the three-year member of the Toronto Blue Jays rotation agreed to sign with the team in the AL East that needed his help the most.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"68\">According to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan, Bassitt and the Baltimore Orioles agreed to a one-year, $18.5 million contract for the upcoming season. It&#8217;s a move that fills out the Baltimore rotation, and it&#8217;s one that will put the Blue Jays under the microscope for not making much of an effort to re-sign the 36-year-old. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6b\">This story will be updated.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6e\">More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/mlb\/fastball\/news\/top-3-teams-who-still-need-zac-gallen-as-pitching-market-winds-down-jackson3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 3 Teams Who Still Need Zac Gallen As Pitching Market Winds Down<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only is everyone in the American League East seemingly going to be good this year, but there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-469215","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\/469215","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=469215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}