{"id":658829,"date":"2026-05-09T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658829\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:02:19","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-addison-barger-returns-yohendrick-pinango-optioned-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658829\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 Addison Barger returns, Yohendrick Pinango optioned to Triple-A"},"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 help on the way as outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/addison-barger\/1118908\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/addison-barger\/1118908\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Barger<\/a> has been reinstated from the 10-day injured list (left ankle sprain). He will be active for Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old Barger makes his return after being out since April 5 with inflammation in both ankles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barger homered twice in three games at Single-A Dunedin earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before the injury that put him on the IL, Barger struggled out of the gate with a .053 average, a .279 OPS and two RBIs in eight games to open the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a corresponding move, Toronto has optioned outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yohendrick-pinango\/1284636\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yohendrick-pinango\/1284636\" target=\"_blank\">Yohendrick Pinango<\/a> to Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The recently turned 24-year-old had 27 plate appearances in 10 games with the big club, managing 11 hits, four RBI, and a .423 average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 92 plate appearances at the Triple-A level earlier this season, the Venezuelan has a .288 average, a .857 OPS, and three home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jays continue their weekend series against the Angels after snapping a four-game losing streak, sitting third in the American League East division at 17-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have help on the way as outfielder Addison Barger has been reinstated from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[224538,712,49,48,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-658829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-addison-barger-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1118908","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658829","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=658829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}