{"id":522992,"date":"2026-03-08T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:10:08","slug":"no-plans-for-blue-jays-yesavage-to-get-into-spring-games-yet-schneider-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522992\/","title":{"rendered":"No plans for Blue Jays&#8217; Yesavage to get into spring games yet, Schneider says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old is \u201cbuilding up\u201d to get into Grapefruit League play, Nicholson-Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/trey-yesavage-on-board-with-blue-jays-plan-for-managing-workload\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Nicholson-Smith last week<\/a>, the Blue Jays are easing Yesavage into his first full season in the Majors after a rookie campaign that saw him shoot up from Single-A Dunedin all the way to logging 139.2 total innings in MLB, including 27.2 during Toronto\u2019s post-season run.<\/p>\n<p>In other Blue Jays news, Max Scherzer is expected to make his next spring start on March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer, who recently announced his return to the Blue Jays after a positive 2025 experience with the club, recorded a scoreless outing over four innings Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old and three-time Cy Young winner first joined the Blue Jays via free agency ahead of last season and then opted to return to the franchise for a second stint, agreeing to a one-year, $3-million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer made 17 appearances for Toronto in 2025 and held a 5.19 ERA with 82 strikeouts, 23 walks and 87 hits allowed. He also made three starts in the post-season as part of the Blue Jays\u2019 run to the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto&#8217;s upcoming pitching plans for spring training also include Dylan Cease taking the mound on Tuesday, Eric Lauer on Wednesday, Jose Berrios on Thursday and Cody Ponce on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays play split-squad games against the Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers on Sunday. You can catch the Tigers game at 1 p.m. ET\/10 a.m. PT on Sportsnet or Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 22-year-old is \u201cbuilding up\u201d to get into Grapefruit League play, Nicholson-Smith added. As reported by Nicholson-Smith last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-522992","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\/522992","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=522992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}