{"id":495852,"date":"2026-02-28T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495852\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:42:07","slug":"blue-jays-dylan-cease-set-for-spring-training-debut-against-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495852\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Dylan Cease set for spring-training debut against Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/dylan-cease\/6072398c-e2b4-405c-932a-aa05582114dc\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"6072398c-e2b4-405c-932a-aa05582114dc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dylan Cease<\/a> will make his spring-training debut on Saturday against the Philadelphia Phillies (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 1 p.m. ET \/ 10 a.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>Cease, 30, signed a seven-year, $210 million contract with the Blue Jays in November, marking the team&#8217;s largest-ever free-agent commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander spent last season with the San Diego Padres, recording a 4.55 ERA over 32 starts and 168 innings with 215 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Cease owns a 3.88 ERA over seven seasons with the Padres and Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays imported the Milton, Ga., native in the off-season to add upside to a deep rotation that also could include Kevin Gausman, Trey Yesavage, Shane Bieber, Cody Ponce, Jose Berrios, Max Scherzer and Eric Lauer. <\/p>\n<p>Cease will have multiple regulars behind him in the Saturday split-squad lineup at home in Dunedin, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>George Springer will bat lead-off as the designated hitter and first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will take his usual spot third in the order while Ernie Clement, Daulton Varsho and Andres Gimenez also start.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Kirk will be behind the plate for Cease in his first outing.<\/p>\n<p>Other Blue Jays, including Davis Schneider, Addison Barger and Myles Straw, will travel to Tampa to face the New York Yankees, where Berrios will get the starting nod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting pitcher Dylan Cease will make his spring-training debut on Saturday against the Philadelphia Phillies (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-495852","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\/495852","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=495852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}