{"id":888406,"date":"2026-09-08T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888406\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:18:10","slug":"blue-jays-promote-pitching-prospect-gage-stanifer-to-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888406\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays promote pitching prospect Gage Stanifer to triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitching prospect Gage Stanifer has been called up to the triple-A Buffalo Bisons, the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FisherCats\/status\/2097377953545847169?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanifer, 22, is the Blue Jays&#8217; No. 10 prospect, per MLB Pipeline, and has been among the most elite strikeout artists in double-A this season, recording 133 over 97 innings, good for second in the Eastern League.<\/p>\n<p>However, the right-hander has also been wild at times, walking 64 batters and recording a 4.82 ERA. Stanifer began the season as a starter but moved to the bullpen in August.<\/p>\n<p>He has a 3.75 ERA with 22 strikeouts over 12 innings since making the move.<\/p>\n<p>A 19th-round pick in the 2022 draft, Stanifer&#8217;s repertoire includes a four-seam fastball with an average velocity of 95 m.p.h., a plus slider that batters didn&#8217;t record one hit off at single-A in 2025 and a changeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitching prospect Gage Stanifer has been called up to the triple-A Buffalo Bisons, the organization announced on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-888406","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\/888406","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=888406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}