{"id":676193,"date":"2026-05-17T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/676193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:52:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-trade-left-hander-eric-lauer-to-los-angeles-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/676193\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays trade left-hander Eric Lauer to Los Angeles Dodgers"},"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 traded left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/eric-lauer\/738156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/eric-lauer\/738156\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Lauer<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in exchange for a player to be named later or cash, it was announced Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katiejwoo\/status\/2056089626461585836?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katiejwoo\/status\/2056089626461585836?s=20\">The Athletic\u2019s Katie Woo reported earlier Sunday<\/a> that Lauer would be joining the Dodgers after being designated for assignment by the Jays this week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: We&#8217;ve traded LHP Eric Lauer and cash considerations to the Dodgers in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OzUZGrUIIs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OzUZGrUIIs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/2056096710783316072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lauer, 30, played a big part in the Jays\u2019 playoff run a season ago but has struggled to begin the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prior to being cut loose, Lauer had a 6.69 ERA in eight appearances, six of them coming as starts. He was tagged for six earned runs and three home runs in his most recent outing, which came last Sunday 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> in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Jays then designated him for assignment in order to make room for right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yariel-rodriguez\/1157892\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yariel-rodriguez\/1157892\" target=\"_blank\">Yariel Rodriguez<\/a> a day later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lauer turned in a 3.18 ERA in 28 appearances for the Jays during the 2025 regular season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have traded left-hander Eric Lauer to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,75165,90907,3302],"class_list":["post-676193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eric-lauer-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-738156","tag-los-angeles-dodgers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-243","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676193","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=676193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}