{"id":855954,"date":"2026-08-13T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855954\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:36:08","slug":"blue-jays-claim-reliever-paul-sewald-off-waivers-from-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/855954\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays claim reliever Paul Sewald off waivers from Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays claimed reliever <a data-player=\"22dabc06-611e-4d36-81af-7153e7ba86e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/paul-sewald\/22dabc06-611e-4d36-81af-7153e7ba86e6\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paul Sewald<\/a> off waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays manager John Schneider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2087635584051282026?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Wednesday that Sewald is expected to arrive in Toronto Thursday night and will likely be active for Friday&#8217;s game against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Sewald, 36, struggled in 45 games with the Diamondbacks this season, posting a 6.23 ERA across 39 innings with 44 strikeouts and nine walks.<\/p>\n<p>Over his last nine innings since July 1, the right-hander has allowed 13 runs (12 earned) on 14 hits, including six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has been a reliable reliever as recently as 2024, when he had 16 saves for the Diamondbacks. He also excelled over parts of three seasons with the Seattle Mariners from 2021-2023, collecting 52 saves with an ERA that never finished higher than 3.06.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;ll join a Blue Jays bullpen that&#8217;s been heavily used during the team&#8217;s current stretch of 30 games in 31 days. Rule 5 pick Spencer Miles earned his first career save Tuesday, closing out the Blue Jays&#8217; 5-3 win over the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the 40-man roster for Sewald, the Blue Jays recalled pitcher Jake Bloss and then placed him on the 60-day injured list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays claimed reliever Paul Sewald off waivers from the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday, the team announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-855954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855954","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=855954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}