{"id":680528,"date":"2026-05-19T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:02:09","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-send-2-5m-to-los-angeles-dodgers-in-eric-lauer-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680528\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays send $2.5M to Los Angeles Dodgers in Eric Lauer trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pitcher <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> added just $600,001 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>\u2019 pricey payroll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles acquired the 30-year-old left-hander from Toronto on Sunday for $1. As part of the swap, the Blue Jays agreed to send the Dodgers $2,529,411.76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lauer lost to the Blue Jays in arbitration last winter and has a $4.4 million salary, of which he was owed $3,129,411.76 at the time of the trade. Toronto will send the Dodgers $529,411.76 on May 31 and $1 million each on July 31 and Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two-time World Series champion Los Angeles started the season with a $323 million payroll, second to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>\u2019 $358 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lauer made two scoreless appearances for the Blue Jays against the Dodgers in last year\u2019s World Series. He was designated for assignment last Monday after starting the new season 1-5 with a 6.69 ERA in eight appearances, including six starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is 46-44 with a 4.26 ERA in eight major league seasons with San Diego (2018-19), Milwaukee (2020-23) and Toronto (2025-26). After spending the early part of 2024 at Triple-A with Pittsburgh and Houston farm teams, he pitched in South Korea for the Kia Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Eric Lauer added just $600,001 to the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 pricey payroll. Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-680528","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\/680528","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=680528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}