{"id":512942,"date":"2026-03-04T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512942\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:35:09","slug":"blue-jays-sign-joe-mantiply-to-minor-league-deal-invite-to-spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512942\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays sign Joe Mantiply to minor-league deal, invite to spring training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliever Joe Mantiply has signed with the Jays on a minor league contract with an invite to spring training, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlueJays\/status\/2028998968173002858?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mantiply, 35, is coming off a 2025 campaign that ended in triple-A with the Buffalo Bisons, where he posted a 3.45 ERA in 14 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Last season in the Majors with the Diamondbacks, he threw just 9.2 innings and allowed 17 runs for a 15.83 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>The best stretch of his career came from 2022-24, where the southpaw logged at least 39 innings each year and recorded just one season with an ERA over 4.00.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Mantiply earned his lone all-star nod and posted a career-best 2.85 ERA with 61 strikeouts in 60 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reliever Joe Mantiply has signed with the Jays on a minor league contract with an invite to spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-512942","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\/512942","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=512942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}