{"id":704462,"date":"2026-05-30T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:39:07","slug":"blue-jays-designate-austin-voth-select-hayden-juenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704462\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Designate Austin Voth, Select Hayden Juenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays announced that right-hander Austin Voth<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Right-hander Hayden Juenger<\/a>\u2018s contract has been selected from Triple-A, as Juenger will take Voth\u2019s place on both the 26-man and 40-man rosters.<\/p>\n

Toronto has now DFA\u2019ed Voth twice this season, and the first designation in early April saw Voth elect free agency rather than an accept outright assignment to Triple-A, though he soon re-signed with the Jays on a new minor league deal.\u00a0 In both cases, Voth was designated after eating some innings in a bullpen game \u2014 he allowed one run in 2 2\/3 innings in a 3-0 loss to the White Sox on April 5, and was hit hard for five runs over 3 1\/3 innings in yesterday\u2019s 6-5 victory over the Orioles.<\/p>\n

It seems quite possible history will repeat itself with Voth\u2019s latest trip through the DFA process.\u00a0 Assuming he isn\u2019t claimed off waivers, he might opt for free agency and then re-sign with Toronto again, or he might just streamline things by accepting an outright assignment.\u00a0 Given how the Blue Jays are still dealing with numerous injuries to their starting pitchers, Voth might soon be called upon again to cover some innings, so he might view the Jays as his best route to another big league appearance.<\/p>\n

Juenger will provide the Jays bullpen with a fresh arm for today\u2019s game in Baltimore, and the 25-year-old will be making his Major League debut whenever he appears in a game.\u00a0 A sixth-round pick out of Missouri State in the 2021 draft, Juenger isn\u2019t listed as a top-30 prospect in Toronto\u2019s farm system by either Baseball America or MLB Pipeline, but a strong performance at Triple-A Buffalo this season has punched his ticket to the Show.<\/p>\n

Over 20 innings for Buffalo in 2026, Juenger has a 3.15 ERA, 26.1% strikeout rate, and 9.1% walk rate.\u00a0 Those numbers come despite a .386 BABIP, as Juenger\u2019s FIP is an even more impressive 2.40.\u00a0 Juenger also hasn\u2019t allowed a home run this year, which speaks to a bit of luck in the other direction though his grounder rate is a solid 44.6%.\u00a0 The Jays have spent the last few years using Juenger as a multi-inning reliever, so he\u2019ll step into the bullpen to soak up as many innings as he can in his taste of the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays announced that right-hander Austin Voth has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Right-hander Hayden Juenger\u2018s contract has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[196465,49,48,256163,82],"class_list":["post-704462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-austin-voth","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hayden-juenger","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704462","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=704462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}