Santander was in the lineup for a rehab outing for the triple-A Buffalo Bisons, batting leadoff and playing left field against the Rochester Red Wings. He had a single in four at-bats with one strikeout and was replaced by Yohendrick Pi\u00f1ango in the top of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
Santander played two games with the Bisons last week as he attempts to return to the Blue Jays lineup after undergoing left shoulder surgery in February.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old has one hit in seven at-bats, a single last Friday, and has not played since. He was scheduled for rehab games through the middle of this week before he was scratched from the lineup due to mid-back discomfort.<\/p>\n
The Bisons season ends after Sunday’s series finale against the Red Wings. Santander is expected to DH on Saturday and play in the outfield on Sunday before a decision is made on him returning to the majors.<\/p>\n
Santander signed a five-year, $92.5-million contract with the Blue Jays in the 2024-25 off-season and hasn’t played yet this season. He also missed most of last year with an injury to the same shoulder.<\/p>\n
In his limited games last season, he slashed .175\/.271\/.294 with a .565 OPS and six homers.<\/p>\n
Before becoming a Blue Jay, Santander developed into a dependable slugger over eight seasons with the Baltimore Orioles. He had his best season at the plate in 2024 when he won a Silver Slugger Award and hit a career-high 44 home runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santander was in the lineup for a rehab outing for the triple-A Buffalo Bisons, batting leadoff and playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-901041","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\/901041","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=901041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}