{"id":582339,"date":"2026-04-04T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582339\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:41:07","slug":"blue-jays-acquire-inf-tyler-fitzgerald-from-giants-option-to-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582339\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays acquire INF Tyler Fitzgerald from Giants, option to Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> were looking for their first road win of the season in Chicago on Saturday, the front office was busy tinkering with the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/tyler-fitzgerald\/a66248ea-ab1a-48b3-85bf-05393098d963\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"a66248ea-ab1a-48b3-85bf-05393098d963\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Fitzgerald<\/a> was acquired from the San Francisco Giants on Saturday in exchange for cash considerations, the Blue Jays announced.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was subsequently optioned to triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald made 72 appearances with the Giants in 2025, hitting .217 for 10 doubles, a triple, four home runs and 14 RBIs. He also racked up nine stolen bases and seven defensive runs saved while playing second base.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants selected Fitzgerald in the fourth round of the 2019 draft out of the University of Louisville. He&#8217;d make his debut in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Springfield, Ill. native was one of the fastest players in baseball two years ago, ranked tied-third in the majors for average sprint speed in 2024 at 30.0 feet per second (min. 50 opportunities).<\/p>\n<p>In 178 games over three seasons with San Francisco, Fitzgerald slashed .252\/.309\/.430 with 31 doubles, three triples, 21 home runs, 53 RBI and 28 stolen bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Toronto Blue Jays were looking for their first road win of the season in Chicago on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-582339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582339","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=582339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}