{"id":582485,"date":"2026-04-04T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582485\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:19:07","slug":"blue-jays-acquire-tyler-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582485\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Acquire Tyler Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays and Giants have each announced that utilityman Tyler Fitzgerald<\/a> has been traded to the Jays in exchange for cash considerations.\u00a0 Fitzgerald has been optioned to the Jays\u2019 Triple-A affiliate.\u00a0 Toronto has an open spot on its 40-man roster, so no corresponding move was necessary.<\/p>\n

San Francisco designated Fitzgerald for assignment earlier this week, and today\u2019s deal officially ends a tenure that began when the Giants made Fitzgerald a fourth-round pick in the 2019 draft.\u00a0 He made his MLB debut in the form of 10 games in 2023, and seemingly had a breakout when he hit .280\/.334\/.497 over 341 plate appearances.\u00a0 Fitzgerald also hit 15 homers and stole 17 bases in 21 attempts, and he finished the season with a 132 wRC+ and 3.0 fWAR.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the key statistic, however, was Fitzgerald\u2019s .380 BABIP.\u00a0 Reality may have sunk in last season, as Fitzgerald\u2019s BABIP fell to a more standard .299, and his offensive production cratered.\u00a0 Fitzgerald hit .217\/.278\/.327 over 243 PA in 2025, translating to a 72 wRC+.\u00a0 The Giants used Fitzgerald as their regular starting second baseman in the early part of the season, but he was optioned to Triple-A in June, and played in only 15 MLB games after June 29 after being repeatedly called up and sent back down to the minors.<\/p>\n

A left rib fracture sent Fitzgerald to the 10-day injured list for a little over two weeks at the start of May, which ended up being the demarcation line of his season.\u00a0 Fitzgerald was hitting a respectable .284\/.341\/.432 in 90 PA before the IL trip, so he was never the same after his rib issue.<\/p>\n

The Giants\u2019 offseason signing of Luis Arraez<\/a> to play second base assured that Fitzgerald would be a bench option at best in San Francisco this season.\u00a0 The team started him at Triple-A to begin the season, and then decided to move on entirely via the DFA route.<\/p>\n

The big majority of Fitzgerald\u2019s MLB playing time has come at shortstop, but he has seen time at every position on the diamond except catcher.\u00a0 This versatility makes him a useful depth option for a Blue Jays club that doesn\u2019t really have a true backup infielder on their current 26-man roster.\u00a0 Toronto has a set everyday infield of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a>, Ernie Clement<\/a>, Andres Gimenez<\/a>, and Kazuma Okamoto<\/a>.\u00a0 Davis Schneider<\/a> and Addison Barger<\/a> can respectively play second or third base when they\u2019re not in the outfield, and Clement can be a backup shortstop if Schneider is at second base.<\/p>\n

After the out-of-options Leo Jimenez<\/a> was traded to the Marlins, Rafael Lantigua<\/a> and prospect Josh Kasevich<\/a> (both at Triple-A Buffalo) became Toronto\u2019s top utility infield options, though neither player is on the 40-man roster.\u00a0 Fitzgerald\u2019s addition gives the Jays a player they can move back and forth between Triple-A and the bigs, as Fitzgerald has one more minor league option year remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays and Giants have each announced that utilityman Tyler Fitzgerald has been traded to the Jays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,54323],"class_list":{"0":"post-582485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories","14":"tag-tyler-fitzgerald"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582485","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=582485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}