{"id":847185,"date":"2026-08-05T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847185\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:44:08","slug":"jameson-taillon-to-make-toronto-blue-jays-debut-wednesday-vs-houston-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847185\/","title":{"rendered":"Jameson Taillon to make Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 debut Wednesday vs. Houston Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jameson Taillon<\/a> will make his Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> debut Wednesday against the Houston Astros<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Taillon was acquired by the Jays last week in a trade with the Chicago Cubs<\/a>. The Cubs designated Taillon for assignment on July 27 and sent $5 million in cash to the Jays to help cover the rest of his $18 million salary for 2026. The Blue Jays will send a player to be named later or cash to the Cubs in the deal. <\/p>\n

The 34-year-old has struggled in 15 starts so far this year for Chicago. He has a 5.92 ERA with a 1.35 WHIP and 68 strikeouts in 76.0 innings. <\/p>\n

Taillon was born and raised in Florida but both his parents are Canadian. Taillon represented Canada as a 21-year-old at the 2013 World Baseball Classic and also played for Canada this past March. <\/p>\n

Taillon has a career ERA of 3.99 in 239 appearances spread across 10 big-league seasons split between the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>, New York Yankees<\/a> and Cubs.<\/p>\n

The veteran right-hander was one of several pickups by the Jays ahead of Monday\u2019s trade deadline, in addition to pitchers Spencer Arrighetti<\/a> and Jose Soriano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jameson Taillon will make his Toronto Blue Jays debut Wednesday against the Houston Astros. Taillon was acquired by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,167294,462,82,75156],"class_list":["post-847185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jameson-taillon-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-548151","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847185","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=847185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}