{"id":79863,"date":"2025-08-18T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79863\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:34:07","slug":"shane-bieber-to-make-blue-jays-debut-friday-vs-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/79863\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Bieber to make Blue Jays debut Friday vs. Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>\u2019 major trade-deadline addition is finally set for his club debut.<\/p>\n

Pitcher Shane Bieber<\/a> will start on the mound Friday against the Miami Marlins, manager John Schneider said Monday, with the starters for Saturday and Sunday still to be determined.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can allow yourself to get pretty excited when you\u2019re adding a guy of that calibre,\u201d Schneider said of Bieber. \u201cOnce you get to know him, he\u2019s the definition of a pro. He fits right in with the guys that we have already in our rotation. He\u2019s really, really smart. He understands what he\u2019s good at and what he\u2019s trying to do. He\u2019s confident right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bieber, the 2020 AL Cy Young winner, has not pitched in a major-league game since April 2024 with the Cleveland Guardians. He then underwent Tommy John Surgery for elbow pain, which has sidelined him ever since.<\/p>\n

The Guardians dealt Bieber to the Blue Jays at the July 31 deadline in exchange for pitching prospect Khal Stephen.<\/p>\n

In his last full season two years ago, Bieber went 6-6 with a 3.80 ERA and 1.234 WHIP over 21 starts with Cleveland, with whom he had previously spent his entire seven-season career.<\/p>\n

“Excited. I’ve been working towards this for a long, long time.” Bieber told Sportsnet’s Hazel Mae<\/a> about returning to a big-league mound. “It’s not a surprise, it’s been anticipated, so I’m excited, determined and ready to go.”<\/p>\n

Since joining the Blue Jays, Bieber has made three starts with triple-A Buffalo, recording a 2.04 ERA and 16 strikeouts while allowing just two walks over 17.2 innings.<\/p>\n

Now 30, the Orange, Calif., native is being counted on to provide ace-like upside to what has been a steady yet unspectacular Blue Jays rotation.<\/p>\n

While Toronto\u2019s starters will remain on turn through a series against the Pittsburgh Pirates ahead of Bieber\u2019s debut, it remains unclear how the club will handle its rotation moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The current quintet of Kevin Gausman, Chris Bassit, Jose Berrios, Max Scherzer and Eric Lauer all carry some combination of pedigree and performance that could make it difficult for the team to bump one from the unit of starters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been saying this whole time that up until that day, up until Friday, we\u2019re just basing everything on workload and health,\u201d Schneider said Monday. “To see how deep each starter goes in this series. We\u2019ll see how his outing unfolds on Friday, too, and go from there. We have plans in place, but it\u2019s still going to be fluid until Wednesday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toronto leads the AL East at 73-52, sitting five games ahead of the Boston Red Sox and 5.5 up on the New York Yankees entering play Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 major trade-deadline addition is finally set for his club debut. Pitcher Shane Bieber will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-79863","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\/79863","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=79863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}