{"id":635394,"date":"2026-04-29T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:04:07","slug":"blue-jays-trade-tyler-fitzgerald-to-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635394\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Trade Tyler Fitzgerald To Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays announced they\u2019ve traded infielder\u00a0Tyler Fitzgerald<\/a> to the Dodgers for cash. Toronto designated him for assignment last week. The Dodgers transferred\u00a0Landon Knack<\/a> to the 60-day injured list to open a 40-man roster spot. Fitzgerald has an option remaining and will be assigned to Triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

The Louisville product didn\u2019t appear in an MLB game with the Blue Jays and has yet to play in the big leagues this season. Fitzgerald opened the season on optional assignment to Triple-A with the Giants. San Francisco designated him for assignment and dealt him to Toronto in early April. Fitzgerald spent a week on the Jays\u2019 bench without getting any game action. He was optioned out and again DFA on Friday when the Jays traded for Willie MacIver<\/a> to deepen their catching group.<\/p>\n

That sends Fitzgerald back to the NL West. He\u2019d previously spent his entire career in the division with San Francisco. A fourth-round pick in 2019, Fitzgerald briefly debuted four years later and had a nice rookie showing in \u201924. He hit .280\/.334\/.497 with 15 homers and 17 stolen bases over 96 games. Fitzgerald\u2019s propensity for swing-and-miss raised questions about how sustainable those numbers would be. The regression hit hard last year, as he stumbled to a .217\/.278\/.327 showing in 243 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald continued to struggle after being optioned in June. San Francisco\u2019s signing of\u00a0Luis Arraez<\/a> to play second base essentially spelled the end of his time in the organization. Fitzgerald has struggled in the early going in Triple-A, striking out 19 times in his first nine games. The roster tumult probably hasn\u2019t helped him establish any kind of rhythm, yet the whiffs have been the main concern throughout his career.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers don\u2019t have a great path to playing time available. Alex Freeland<\/a>, Hyeseong Kim<\/a>,\u00a0Miguel Rojas<\/a> and\u00a0Santiago Espinal<\/a> are all on the big league roster.\u00a0Mookie Betts<\/a>,\u00a0Tommy Edman<\/a> and\u00a0Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> are on the injured list.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s minimal cost for the Dodgers in adding Fitzgerald as multi-positional infield depth. Knack has been out all season with an intercostal strain. There\u2019s no timetable on his return, but he\u2019s evidently not going to be ready before the final week of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays announced they\u2019ve traded infielder\u00a0Tyler Fitzgerald to the Dodgers for cash. Toronto designated him for assignment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,133370,82,54323],"class_list":["post-635394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-landon-knack","tag-sports","tag-tyler-fitzgerald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635394","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=635394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635394\/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=635394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}