{"id":710514,"date":"2026-06-18T01:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T01:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T01:23:11","slug":"blue-jays-trade-tyler-heineman-to-angels-for-cash-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710514\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays trade Tyler Heineman to Angels for cash considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heineman was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays on Friday, when Alejandro Kirk made his return from the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old catcher had struggled at the plate through 33 games this season, carrying a .154 average and .410 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being unable to get much going offensively, Heineman performed as one of the best defensive catchers in baseball, ranking third among all qualified backstops with a plus-7 fielding run value.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Heineman hit .289 with three home runs and a .777 OPS in 64 games, helping the Blue Jays win a division title.<\/p>\n<p>An eighth-round pick of the Houston Astros in 2012, Heineman has spent three different stints with the Toronto organization (2022, 2023 and 2024 to 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heineman was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays on Friday, when Alejandro Kirk made his return from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-710514","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\/710514","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=710514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}