{"id":884762,"date":"2026-09-05T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:48:09","slug":"blue-jays-claim-catcher-shawn-ross-off-waivers-from-mets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/884762\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays claim catcher Shawn Ross off waivers from Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays claimed catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/shawn-ross\/25890706-5a41-4c2d-ba3c-1ac068245f6e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"25890706-5a41-4c2d-ba3c-1ac068245f6e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shawn Ross<\/a> off waivers from the New York Mets, the team announced Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Ross was then optioned to triple-A Buffalo. <\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old catcher made his MLB debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2026, appearing in two big-league games before he was claimed by the Mets. <\/p>\n<p>In 70 games split between the triple-A and double-A level this season, Ross is slashing .184\/.333\/.418 with 13 doubles and 11 home runs. <\/p>\n<p>He likely won&#8217;t see any time with the Blue Jays this season unless Alejandro Kirk or Brandon Valenzuela suffer an injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays claimed catcher Shawn Ross off waivers from the New York Mets, the team announced Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-884762","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\/884762","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=884762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}