{"id":66884,"date":"2025-08-13T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66884\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:25:07","slug":"springer-still-absent-from-bisons-lineup-pushing-back-rehab-stint-even-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66884\/","title":{"rendered":"Springer still absent from Bisons lineup, pushing back rehab stint even further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outfielder was not part of the triple-A Buffalo Bisons lineup for Wednesday&#8217;s game against Lehigh Valley, less than 24 hours after Blue Jays manager John Schneider said the team&#8217;s hope was for Springer to see game action in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Springer, who has been sidelined since being hit in the head by a pitch on July 28, was back doing baseball activities with the Blue Jays on Tuesday, Schneider said.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old was placed on the seven-day concussion IL on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Springer was then sent down to Buffalo for what was supposed to be a brief rehab stint, but he has yet to clear protocols for return to play.<\/p>\n<p>In 101 games, Springer is slashing .291\/.383\/.506 with 18 home runs and 57 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a potential Springer appearance, the Bisons will send some intriguing players to the mound this week.<\/p>\n<p>Rehabbing starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/alek-manoah\/19d60d81-45c2-4b26-927f-8d541158d482\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"19d60d81-45c2-4b26-927f-8d541158d482\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alek Manoah<\/a> will get the nod on Wednesday, with the aim to throw around 70-75 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays top prospect Trey Yesavage will make his first triple-A start on Thursday, followed by trade-deadline addition Shane Bieber going Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outfielder was not part of the triple-A Buffalo Bisons lineup for Wednesday&#8217;s game against Lehigh Valley, less&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-66884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66884","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=66884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}