{"id":513399,"date":"2026-03-04T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:45:11","slug":"blue-jays-sign-veteran-lefty-joe-mantiply-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513399\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays sign veteran lefty Joe Mantiply to minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> signed veteran left-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/joe-mantiply\/503764\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/joe-mantiply\/503764\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Mantiply<\/a> to a minor-league contract with an invite to spring training. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old American made 10 appearances with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> last season, posting a 15.83 ERA alongside eight strikeouts and five home runs allowed over 9.2 inning pitched. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After being released on June 1, Mantiply signed a minor-league deal with the Jays. He made 14 appearances with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, producing a 3.45 ERA with 19 strikeouts over 15.2 innings pitched. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mantiply was an All-Star in 2022, recording a 2.85 ERA and 61 strikeouts over 60 innings pitched with the D-Backs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over his eight-year career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> and Diamondbacks, Mantiply has a 4.54 ERA and 194 strikeouts in 216 innings pitched. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays signed veteran left-handed reliever Joe Mantiply to a minor-league contract with an invite to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,203595,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-513399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-joe-mantiply-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-503764","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\/513399","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=513399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}