The Blue Jays are reinstating Chad Green from the 60-day injured list tomorrow, tweets Eric Treuden of Jays Journal. He’ll take one of the expanded roster spots. Treuden and Robert Murray of FanSided report that the Jays will recall Spencer Horwitz with the other vacancy. In order to clear space on the 40-man roster for Green, Toronto is likely to transfer Hagen Danner from the 15-day to the 60-day injured list.
Green’s activation is the biggest news. The right-hander is in line for his first major league appearance since May 2022. Green injured his elbow and required Tommy John surgery that month. It ended his seven-year tenure with the Yankees, as he headed to free agency last winter.
The Jays and Green agreed on a complicated free agent pact. He’s making $2.25MM this season. At year’s end, the Jays will have to decide whether to trigger a three-year, $27MM team option. If they decline, Green would have a $6.25MM player option for next season. If he declines, Toronto could circle back on a two-year, $21MM pact. If all three provisions were declined, he’d return to free agency.
How Green looks down the stretch should play a role in his long-term future. Before the injury, he was a very valuable multi-inning relief arm in the Bronx. Green owns a 3.17 ERA with a 32.5% strikeout rate over 383 2/3 career frames. Toronto already has one of the game’s best bullpens, ranking fourth with a 3.47 ERA. If Green can immediately recapture his old form, he’d join the likes of Jordan Romano, Jordan Hicks, Tim Mayza and Trevor Richards in the middle to late innings. Erik Swanson could also factor into that mix but is currently on the injured list.
Green has made 12 minor league rehab outings over the past six weeks. He started with three rookie ball appearances and has pitched nine times with Triple-A Buffalo. In nine innings, he has allowed only three runs (two earned) with 11 strikeouts and one walk.
Can he hit with RiSP?
The only question that matters for the Jays.
Pitching is all good.
Baruch Hashem and glad to see Spencer back.
In his major league career, he is 0-5 with 5 strikeouts.
Doesn’t ground into DP’s though ?
What a bullpen. Pitching carrying the Jays this year which was unexpected.
Nice solid arm in the pen, Jays pen was already stacked with Romano, Swanson before he got injured, and with Hicks Richards and Mayza doing really well. Shoutout to Bowden Francis and Jay Jackson… LOL
underrated throughout his career
check his 2017 season he was unhittable
Lindor incident…
Your Jimi Garcia erasure from the back of the bullpen will no longer be tolerated!
GL Chad! One of my fav Yankees during his tenure.
Hopefully Jansen or Kirk don’t plug him in the back of his noodle for all the wild throws they’ve made to second base this season!
If he is even half of what he was with the yankees, that 3-year deal is a steal for this guy. Going in to this year and next you will have a top three bullpen in baseball and that wins you a world series. That being said, with RISP, the Jays are the worst for a playoff contending team. I say let the kids play. Martinez, Horwitz, and Barger have almost a 1000 ops going into September. I’d be sending Santiago down and calling up Martinez and he’s now your third baseman. Right handed, power bat, which is what you need, oh and he crushes lefties. On another note unfortunately, Santiago plays shortstop and third base defensively very well makes it tough
Espinal is not very good at ss or 3b. Average at best. He’s good at 2nd
When exactly was the last time the Jays up a position player and he was actually good, and im not including Davis Schneider bc his numbers r totally inflated by an unsustainable babip!! Everyone loved Espinal last year and thought they should move Bo to 2nd, now the same people want to send him down, he was never all that great tbh and neither r any of the options discussed here,, should hv added Grichuk or Mancini if they r seriously about winning, but Shapkins r not good at adapting at all, they will blame this seasons failings on the players, ignoring the fact they built this team with those players!