{"id":843479,"date":"2026-08-03T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843479\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:36:09","slug":"report-blue-jays-trading-gausman-to-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843479\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Blue Jays trading Gausman to Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays are trading starting pitcher Kevin Gausman to the Chicago Cubs, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2084082219644231959?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Athletic&#8217;s Ken Rosenthal and Mitch Bannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gausman is in the final season of a five-year, $110-million contract he signed in December 2021. He holds a 5-10 record in 23 starts this year with a 4.38 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has been a crucial part of the Blue Jays&#8217; pitching staff over the last five seasons. He earned Cy Young votes in 2022 and 2023, and was an All-Star in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is sending prospects Brett Bateman and Ty Southisene back to Toronto, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MitchBannon\/status\/2084083044026036436?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bannon<\/a>. Southisene, a 21-year-old infielder, is the Cubs&#8217; No. 13 prospect, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Pipeline<\/a>. He&#8217;s currently with Chicago&#8217;s High-A affiliate and holds a .333\/.459\/.381 slash line for the South Bend Cubs. Southisene has played primarily at shortstop this year after spending most of 2025 at second base.<\/p>\n<p>Bateman, 24, has spent the entire 2026 campaign playing at Triple-A Iowa and has a .312\/.431\/.422 line with three homers and 33 RBIs in 81 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays are trading starting pitcher Kevin Gausman to the Chicago Cubs, sources told The Athletic&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-843479","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\/843479","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=843479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}