{"id":873781,"date":"2026-08-27T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873781\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:38:12","slug":"blue-jays-sign-recently-dfad-pitcher-michael-lorenzen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873781\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays sign recently DFA&#8217;d pitcher Michael Lorenzen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzen was released by the <a data-team=\"colorado-rockies\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/colorado-rockies\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> after being designated for assignment on Aug. 17. <\/p>\n<p>He had a locker in the Blue Jays&#8217; clubhouse ahead of Thursday&#8217;s game against the Kansas City Royals, for which Lorenzen is available out of the bullpen. <\/p>\n<p>The starter will now get a prorated portion of the major-league minimum, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2093062240408682917?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Sportsnet&#8217;s Shi Davidi<\/a>, with Colorado responsible for the remainder of his $8 million salary this season.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Jays optioned RHP Chad Dallas to triple-A Buffalo and transferred outfielder Jonatan Clase to the 60-day injured list. <\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters that Lorenzen has expressed that he&#8217;s prepared to pitch in any role going forward. <\/p>\n<p>Lorenzen last appeared in a game for the Rockies on Aug. 15. The right-hander hadn&#8217;t notched a win since June 27 and had gone 3-11 with a 7.08 ERA this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old joined the Rockies on a one-year deal in January.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays are managing a beleaguered rotation, with Shane Bieber, Trey Yesavage, Cody Ponce, Jose Berrios and others sidelined by injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorenzen was released by the Colorado Rockies after being designated for assignment on Aug. 17. He had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-873781","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\/873781","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=873781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}