{"id":601635,"date":"2026-04-13T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:32:08","slug":"blue-jays-acquire-lenyn-sosa-from-white-sox-bieber-moved-to-60-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/601635\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays acquire Lenyn Sosa from White Sox; Bieber moved to 60-day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make room on the 40-man roster, the Jays also announced that right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/shane-bieber\/5a6d40fb-f37a-415d-bae6-83fd66bb3322\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"5a6d40fb-f37a-415d-bae6-83fd66bb3322\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Shane Bieber<\/a> would be placed on the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Sosa, 26, is batting .212\/.212\/.303 with three RBI in 33 plate appearances and 12 games played with Chicago this season.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, in 544 plate appearances over 140 games played with the White Sox, the Venezuela native hit .264\/.293\/.434 with 22 homers and 75 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>He mostly played second base for the White Sox, but has seen time at both first and third.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber has yet to make his 2026 appearance for Toronto, dealing with inflammation in his throwing elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old made seven regular-season starts for the Blue Jays last season, throwing 40.1 innings while striking out 37 and posting a 3.57 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Rich, 18, hasn&#8217;t made his professional debut yet. He was taken in the 17th round by the Blue Jays in the 2025 First Year Player Draft out of American Heritage High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To make room on the 40-man roster, the Jays also announced that right-hander Shane Bieber would be placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-601635","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\/601635","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=601635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}