{"id":628386,"date":"2026-04-25T20:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:07:26","slug":"blue-jays-to-activate-trey-yesavage-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628386\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays To Activate Trey Yesavage On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trey Yesavage<\/a> is ready for his 2026 debut, as the rookie right-hander will be activated from the 15-day injured list prior to Tuesday\u2019s game with the Red Sox.\u00a0 Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters (including MLB.com\u2019s Keegan Matheson<\/a>) that Dylan Cease<\/a>, Yesavage, and Max Scherzer<\/a> will start during the three-game series against Boston.\u00a0 Cease and Patrick Corbin<\/a> will swap places in the rotation so Corbin will now face the Guardians on Sunday, and Eric Lauer<\/a> will be moved from a starting role into a long relief role.<\/p>\n

Yesavage had never thrown a professional pitch prior to 2025, and his quick path from A-ball to the Blue Jays\u2019 World Series rotation was one of the key storylines of Toronto\u2019s postseason run.\u00a0 After debuting in September with a 3.21 ERA over his first 14 big league innings, Yesavage then had a 3.58 ERA over six games and 27 2\/3 frames in the playoffs, highlighted by an epic seven-inning, 12-strikeout performance against the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series.<\/p>\n

Between the minors, the majors, and the postseason, Yesavage threw a total of 139 2\/3 innings in 2025 \u2014 a marked increase from the 98 innings Yesavage threw for East Carolina University in 2024 before Toronto made him the 20th overall pick of the 2024 draft.\u00a0 As such, there was already a sense that the Blue Jays would look to limit Yesavage\u2019s innings in 2026 in order to keep the righty from overextending himself, though an immediate hurdle arose when Yesavage arrived at Spring Training with a shoulder impingement.<\/p>\n

The Jays took it slow with Yesavage\u2019s workload in camp, and then placed him on the 15-day IL to begin the season so the right-hander could continue to ramp up at his own pace.\u00a0 Yesavage has made four minor league rehab starts, and his most recent outing with Triple-A Buffalo on April 21 saw him toss only 64 pitches, in a step backwards from the 71 pitches he threw in his previous start.\u00a0 Yesavage also has a 7.50 ERA and a 12.5% walk rate across his 12 rehab innings, though on-field results are less important than feel and comfort during a rehab assignment.<\/p>\n

As Matheson noted, Yesavage \u201ctypically landed more in the range of 65 to 85 pitches\u201d per outing in 2025, and the Blue Jays will probably keep him on something of a similar leash this year.\u00a0 The goal is to keep Yesavage fully past any lingering after-effects of his shoulder problem, and also to keep him fresh for what the Jays hope will be another deep run into October.<\/p>\n

For the moment, however, simply getting back to the .500 mark is the first order of business for the 10-15 Blue Jays.\u00a0 Yesavage is one of seven pitchers and 12 players overall on Toronto\u2019s injured list, as a swath of health problems big and small have caused the Jays to stumble out of the gate this season.\u00a0 For the rotation in particular, the absences of Yesavage, Shane Bieber<\/a>, Jose Berrios<\/a>, and (to a season-ending ACL tear) Cody Ponce<\/a> has left the Jays scrambling for pitching despite what seemed to be a surplus of starters in March.<\/p>\n

Cease and Kevin Gausman<\/a> have both been very good, and Patrick Corbin (signed to a one-year, $1MM deal as a response to all the injuries) has managed a respectable 3.86 ERA over three starts and 14 2\/3 innings.\u00a0 Scherzer and Lauer have each been hit hard, which is also part of reason for Lauer\u2019s shift back to relief work.<\/p>\n

Lauer has been public about his desire to work both as a starter and not work behind an opener when starting, though his 6.75 ERA over 22 2\/3 innings has left the southpaw with little room to contest a role change.\u00a0 In regards to Lauer\u2019s comments, Schneider said \u201che\u2019s still going to pitch meaningful innings for us.\u00a0 Our rotation has been and maybe will continue to be in flux.\u00a0 He was playing catch-up, I think.\u00a0 After his first outing, his stuff was down and there were some delivery things.\u00a0 Just talking to him yesterday, there\u2019s still an opportunity to work on those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having Lauer work multiple innings out of the bullpen could help him get on track, and should also help relieve some of the pressure on the Blue Jays\u2019 overtaxed relief corps.\u00a0 The 113 1\/3 innings pitched by Toronto\u2019s relievers is the fifth-highest total of any bullpen in the league, while the rotation\u2019s 109 1\/3 innings are the third-fewest in baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trey Yesavage is ready for his 2026 debut, as the rookie right-hander will be activated from the 15-day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,198586,462,82,76366],"class_list":["post-628386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eric-lauer","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-trey-yesavage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628386","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=628386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}