{"id":909511,"date":"2026-11-07T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/909511\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T21:54:08","slug":"blue-jays-re-sign-lazaro-estrada-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/909511\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Re-Sign Lazaro Estrada To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays have re-signed right-hander Lazaro Estrada<\/a> to a new minor league deal, according to Baseball America\u2019s Matt Eddy<\/a>.\u00a0 Estrada opted for minor league free agency at season\u2019s end, as he was designated for assignment and then outrighted off Toronto\u2019s 40-man roster back in August, and then never added back to the 40-man.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Estrada has spent his entire pro career in Toronto\u2019s organization, ever since he first signed with the team out of Cuba in 2018.\u00a0 Estrada\u2019s long stint in the minors finally paid off with two MLB games (7 1\/3 IP) in 2025, and then a slightly longer look of 13 innings over eight appearances this year.\u00a0 A right shoulder impingement sent Estrada to the injured list for about two and a half months this season, which extended his stay in the majors for service-time purposes even if he wasn\u2019t able to pitch.<\/p>\n

Over his 20 1\/3 career frames in the Show, Estrada has a 6.64 ERA, 20.7% strikeout rate, and 12% walk rate.\u00a0 His Triple-A resume consists of a 5.06 ERA, 23.25K%, and 7.88BB% in 133 1\/3 innings for Buffalo, with 24 of Estrada\u2019s 44 appearances coming as a starting pitcher.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays have used him only as a reliever (occasionally in a bulk pitcher role) during his limited time in the majors, and it would appear as though Estrada will again be used as a depth option to be called up when the Jays are in need of a fresh arm.\u00a0 Estrada has one minor league option year remaining, so the Jays will be able to shuttle him back and forth from Triple-A up to five more times in 2026, assuming the minor league transaction rules aren\u2019t changed in the next collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays have re-signed right-hander Lazaro Estrada to a new minor league deal, according to Baseball America\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[231424,363,99],"class_list":["post-909511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-lazaro-estrada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909511","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=909511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}