{"id":717901,"date":"2026-06-06T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717901\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:16:12","slug":"blue-jays-cease-likely-wont-need-another-rehab-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717901\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Cease &#8216;likely&#8217; won&#8217;t need another rehab start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> may have some rotation reinforcements on the way within the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/dylan-cease\/6072398c-e2b4-405c-932a-aa05582114dc\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"6072398c-e2b4-405c-932a-aa05582114dc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dylan Cease<\/a> felt good after his triple-A rehab start on Thursday and is back in Toronto with the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeeganMatheson\/status\/2063002003177963650?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters<\/a> Friday that it&#8217;s &#8220;very likely&#8221; that Cease won&#8217;t need another rehab outing and could be activated for their series against the Philadelphia Phillies last week.<\/p>\n<p>Cease threw 75 pitches over four innings of five-run ball on Thursday with Buffalo, striking out six and sitting 97 m.p.h. with his fastball. The 30-year-old was hurt by a pair of homers in the second and third innings of his start.<\/p>\n<p>Before hitting the injured list, Cease was off to a hot start for the Blue Jays, posting a 3.05 ERA with 92 strikeouts over his first 11 starts and 62 innings for his new team.<\/p>\n<p>He landed on the IL with a left hamstring strain on May 25. He initially suffered the injury during a start against the Pittsburgh Pirates a day prior, when he appeared to shake out his legs after delivering a pitch to Spencer Horwitz.<\/p>\n<p>After a mound visit from team trainers and Schneider, Cease originally stayed in the game but was removed mid-at-bat against the next hitter, Brandon Lowe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays may have some rotation reinforcements on the way within the next week. Right-hander starter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-717901","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\/717901","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=717901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}