{"id":613468,"date":"2026-04-19T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613468\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:01:12","slug":"blue-jays-schneider-discusses-lauers-comments-on-opener-were-trying-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613468\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays’ Schneider discusses Lauer’s comments on opener: ‘We’re trying to win’"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Schneider had an unhappy pitcher on his hands following Friday’s loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, but the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> manager appears to have defused any tension created by Eric Lauer<\/a>‘s post-game comments.<\/p>\n

Lauer came out of the bullpen behind opener Braydon Fisher in Toronto’s 6-3 loss to Arizona, something he told reporters that he hates doing.<\/p>\n

“I can’t stand it,” he said. “You work with what you got. Part of it, too, we’re trying to mix some things up. We’re trying to find ways to win, so I think it’s a game plan we had, and I think we went out there and tried to execute the best we could.”<\/p>\n

Lauer ultimately took the loss on Friday, allowing three earned runs over five innings of work.<\/p>\n

But after entering in the second inning, he complained that following an opener disrupts his routine as a starter and is “hopefully, not something that (the Blue Jays) will continue doing.”<\/p>\n

Ahead of Toronto’s game on Saturday night in Phoenix, Schneider told reporters that he talked to Lauer about the comments and that the 30-year-old southpaw has bought into the team’s plan going forward.<\/p>\n

“I respect everyone\u2019s opinion,” Schneider said, per MLB.com’s Keegan Matheson.<\/a> “I know the end of his quote was ‘It\u2019s above my pay grade,’ and it\u2019s definitely above his pay grade, how we use him. We\u2019re trying to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s aware of that and he knows that. Anyone who\u2019s bounced around a little bit, he wants to start. He\u2019s on board with us trying to win. Go out and execute until we take the ball from you, big fella.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the season, Lauer now has a 7.13 ERA and a 1-3 record over four appearances. He began the year with a bang, striking out nine against the Athletics, but has struggled since, surrendering 12 runs over his last 12.1 innings.<\/p>\n

If the Blue Jays stay on turn for their next trip through the rotation, Lauer’s next start (or bulk outing) will come on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Schneider had an unhappy pitcher on his hands following Friday’s loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-613468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613468","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=613468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}