{"id":860449,"date":"2026-08-16T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T19:04:13","slug":"blue-jays-option-tiedemann-to-triple-a-reinstate-little-from-paternity-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860449\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays option Tiedemann to triple-A, reinstate Little from paternity list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after making his MLB debut, Ricky Tiedemann has been sent back to the triple-A Buffalo Bisons while <a data-player=\"914a72c0-40fc-4f4b-941f-9342bff20a6d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/brendon-little\/914a72c0-40fc-4f4b-941f-9342bff20a6d\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brendon Little<\/a> was reinstated from the paternity list, the Blue Jays <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlueJays\/status\/2089013094303326611?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former Blue Jays top prospect, Tiedemann&#8217;s development was derailed by numerous injuries, including Tommy John surgery, which sidelined him for most of 2024 and all of 2025. <\/p>\n<p>He made his long-awaited debut Saturday, when he struck out two batters against the New York Yankees and walked none, also allowing one run on two hits over 1.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Tiedemann, 23, had made only seven minor-league appearances this season after missing time due to elbow soreness and neck discomfort, pitching to a 6.43 ERA with 11 strikeouts and two walks over seven innings. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Little struggled at the start of this season before being sent down to the minors, but has seemed to turn a corner since being recalled in late July, pitching to a 2.53 ERA with 15 strikeouts and nine walks over 10.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old still has a 9.98 ERA on the season, but if Little can recapture the form that saw him lead all left-handed relievers with 91 strikeouts in 2025, it would be a big boost to a Toronto bullpen that is tied for the MLB lead with 67.2 innings pitched in August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after making his MLB debut, Ricky Tiedemann has been sent back to the triple-A Buffalo Bisons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-860449","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\/860449","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=860449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}