{"id":626872,"date":"2026-04-25T02:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626872\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:51:41","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-acquire-c-willie-maciver-from-rangers-for-cash-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626872\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays acquire C Willie MacIver from Rangers for cash considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> have acquired catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/willie-maciver\/1054470\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/willie-maciver\/1054470\" target=\"_blank\">Willie MacIver<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/texas-rangers\/237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/texas-rangers\/237\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> in exchange for cash considerations, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To make room for MacIver on the 40-man roster, the Jays designated infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tyler-fitzgerald\/918685\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tyler-fitzgerald\/918685\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Fitzgerald<\/a> for assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MacIver has played in 14 games this season for the Triple-A Round Rock Express and has posted a .170 average with one home run and six RBIs. Defensively, he has also thrown out four of nine potential base stealers this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old has appeared in 32 games at the major league level, all for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> in 2025, and has a .186 batting average over 102 at bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MacIver was DFA\u2019d by the Rangers on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired catcher Willie MacIver from the Texas Rangers in exchange for cash considerations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,462,82,75156,234959],"class_list":["post-626872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238","tag-willie-maciver-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1054470"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626872","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=626872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}