{"id":704515,"date":"2026-05-30T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:09:09","slug":"blue-jays-rhp-dylan-cease-throwing-bullpen-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704515\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; RHP Dylan Cease throwing bullpen on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/dylan-cease\/6072398c-e2b4-405c-932a-aa05582114dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Cease<\/a> is taking a step towards a return to the mound.<\/p>\n<p>Cease is expected to throw 25-30 pitches, and his next step could be another bullpen or facing hitters, depending on how he responds.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was placed on the 15-day injured list on May 25 with a mild left hamstring strain. He suffered the injury in his last start against the Pittsburgh Pirates while throwing a pitch and was removed from the game. <\/p>\n<p>Cease has a 3-3 record through 11 starts this season with a 3.05 ERA and 1.21 WHIP while striking out 92 batters. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Addison Barger has resumed hitting in the batting cages at the Blue Jays&#8217; complex in Dunedin while he recovers from right elbow inflammation. <\/p>\n<p>Catcher Alejandro Kirk has also been taking on-field batting practice, and he should progress to hitting off high-velocity pitching machines in the coming days. Kirk has played just five games in 2026 due to a fractured thumb. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Cease is taking a step towards a return to the mound. Cease is expected to throw 25-30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-704515","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\/704515","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=704515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}