{"id":513079,"date":"2026-03-04T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:06:07","slug":"blue-jays-sign-joe-mantiply-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513079\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Sign Joe Mantiply To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays announced they\u2019ve re-signed lefty reliever\u00a0Joe Mantiply<\/a> to a minor league contract. The ISE Baseball client receives a non-roster invite to MLB camp.<\/p>\n

Mantiply finished last season in the Toronto organization. Released by the Diamondbacks in June, he signed a minor league deal with the Jays shortly after the All-Star Break. Mantiply spent a couple weeks building up at the team\u2019s Florida complex before reporting to Triple-A Buffalo. He finished the season with the Bisons, allowing eight runs (six earned) across 15 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

The run prevention was unexceptional, but Mantiply posted a 19:0 strikeout-to-walk ratio against 64 Triple-A opponents. It didn\u2019t get him a big league look. The Jays were impressed enough to bring him back on an NRI after he elected minor league free agency over the offseason.<\/p>\n

Mantiply was a surprise All-Star in 2022 \u2014 a season in which he posted a 2.85 ERA across a career-high 60 innings. The 35-year-old southpaw has strong command and gets grounders but has below-average velocity. Mantiply averaged 88.4 mph on his sinker last year. He gets good movement on the sinker and his changeup and was a solid middle reliever as recently as 2024. He was knocked around for 17 runs in 9 2\/3 MLB frames last year.<\/p>\n

The Jays have one of the better rosters in MLB but are light on established left-handed relief. Eric Lauer<\/a> is set for a multi-inning role.\u00a0Mason Fluharty<\/a> is a soft-tossing cutter specialist, while\u00a0Brendon Little<\/a> has much bigger raw stuff. Both pitchers can miss bats but aren\u2019t reliably around the strike zone.\u00a0Ricky Tiedemann<\/a> could factor into the rotation or relief mix as a rookie, but the oft-injured former top prospect is again battling elbow discomfort early in camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays announced they\u2019ve re-signed lefty reliever\u00a0Joe Mantiply to a minor league contract. The ISE Baseball client…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,203496,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-513079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-joe-mantiply","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513079","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=513079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}