{"id":860645,"date":"2026-08-16T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:06:09","slug":"blue-jays-spencer-arrighetti-makes-progress-in-rehab-outing-with-bisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860645\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Spencer Arrighetti makes progress in rehab outing with Bisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>&#8216; trade-deadline acquisitions started getting back on track Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/spencer-arrighetti\/21d20dee-78af-4fc3-b8ec-ed6fe31c0efa\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"21d20dee-78af-4fc3-b8ec-ed6fe31c0efa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Arrighetti<\/a> pitched 3.2 innings in a rehab outing with the triple-A Buffalo Bisons, allowing two runs on three hits, while striking out three and walking two. <\/p>\n<p>Arrighetti was diagnosed with Morton&#8217;s neuroma, a condition related to a damaged or enlarged nerve that causes pain in the bottom of the foot, manager John Schneider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/2086915277602566517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander exited his last rehab start on Aug. 6 after throwing 39 pitches over 2.1 hitless innings due to nerve irritation, which was later revealed to stem from the condition.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as timeline, we&#8217;ll see. We&#8217;re hoping he can pitch through it and feel better with treatment, but it&#8217;s kind of a new one for me,\u201d Schneider added.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old retired the first 10 batters he faced on Sunday before giving up a single to Trevor Story \u2014 also on a rehab assignment \u2014 and a two-run homer to Mikey Romero. He threw 35 of 50  pitches for strikes, induced three whiffs and averaged 90.5 m.p.h. with his fastball, 1.9 m.p.h. below his season average. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/2086915277602566517\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>Arrighetti has not yet pitched for the Blue Jays since being acquired from the Houston Astros for Daulton Varsho. He has a 4.60 ERA, striking out 87 batters and walking 50 over 88 major-league innings this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since entering the majors in 2024, he has a 4.66 ERA and 1.38 WHIP in 53 career games (52 starts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Toronto Blue Jays&#8216; trade-deadline acquisitions started getting back on track Sunday. Spencer Arrighetti pitched 3.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-860645","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\/860645","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=860645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}