{"id":131110,"date":"2025-09-04T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131110\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:56:09","slug":"blue-jays-anthony-santander-closes-in-on-rehab-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131110\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Anthony Santander closes in on rehab assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/anthony-santander\/d4bc8879-c7dc-430f-bcb8-e932b21a2e7c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d4bc8879-c7dc-430f-bcb8-e932b21a2e7c\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthony Santander<\/a> could take another important step in his injury recovery next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays are hoping Santander can start a rehab stint with triple-A Buffalo as soon as next Tuesday, when the Bisons begin a road series in nearby Rochester, N.Y, Sportsnet&#8217;s Arden Zwelling reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitter will travel with the Blue Jays to New York this weekend to get more right-handed reps with the bat before games against the Yankees. The plan is for Santander to get at least five rehab games in before he returns to the major-league club.<\/p>\n<p>Santander hit, ran and took part in fielding drills last week in Toronto. Zwelling says the left-handed swing has progressed further than Santander&#8217;s right-handed swing.<\/p>\n<p>The outfielder has been out since May 29 due to a left shoulder subluxation he sustained crashing into a wall in a game against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Santander struggled during the first two months of the season, hitting for a .179 average and .577 OPS with six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old signed a five-year, $92.5-million contract with the Blue Jays in the off-season that includes a third-year opt-out, sixth-year team option and deferred money.<\/p>\n<p>Santander hit a career-best 44 home runs with the Baltimore Orioles in 2024 and could offer both power and versatility as a switch-hitter to the Blue Jays lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Santander could take another important step in his injury recovery next week. The Blue Jays are hoping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-131110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}