{"id":560625,"date":"2026-03-25T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560625\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:00:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-make-final-cuts-and-heres-who-made-the-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560625\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays make final cuts and here&#8217;s who made the opening day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final cuts have been made, and the Toronto Blue Jays are ready to play ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays revealed their 26-man roster for opening day, along with a long list of roster moves on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder Davis Schneider and relief pitcher Spencer Miles earned the final two spots after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogto.com\/sports_play\/2026\/03\/two-decisions-left-toronto-blue-jays-make-final-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly being on the chopping block this week<\/a>. Infielder Leo Jimenez and relief pitcher Angel Bastardo were designated for assignment, while reliever Chase Lee was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays will begin the season with five players on the injured list. That list includes outfielder Anthony Santander (left shoulder labral tear), as well as four pitchers: Jose Berrios (right elbow stress fracture), Shane Bieber (right elbow inflammation), Yimi Garcia (right elbow ulnar nerve and AC joint surgery), and Trey Yesavage (right shoulder impingement).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays opening day roster<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen pitchers, two catchers, four infielders, and seven outfielders have made the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Cease<br \/>\nBraydon Fisher<br \/>\nMason Fluharty<br \/>\nKevin Gausman<br \/>\nJeff Hoffman<br \/>\nEric Lauer<br \/>\nBrendon Little<br \/>\nSpencer Miles<br \/>\nTommy Nance<br \/>\nCody Ponce<br \/>\nTyler Rogers<br \/>\nMax Scherzer<br \/>\nLouis Varland<\/p>\n<p>Catchers<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Heineman<br \/>\nAlejandro Kirk<\/p>\n<p>Infielders<\/p>\n<p>Ernie Clement<br \/>\nAndres Gimenez<br \/>\nVladimir Guerrero Jr.<br \/>\nKazuma Okamoto<\/p>\n<p>Outfielders<\/p>\n<p>Addison Barger<br \/>\nNathan Lukes<br \/>\nJesus Sanchez<br \/>\nDavis Schneider<br \/>\nGeorge Springer<br \/>\nMyles Straw<br \/>\nDaulton Varsho<\/p>\n<p>The regular season begins on Friday night at the Rogers Centre, as the Blue Jays unveil their 2025 American League championship banner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Lead photo by <\/p>\n<p>Dan Hamilton\/Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final cuts have been made, and the Toronto Blue Jays are ready to play ball.\u00a0 The Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[43409,5597,49,48,7674,13629,3302],"class_list":["post-560625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-43409","tag-blue","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jays","tag-roster","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560625","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=560625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}