{"id":136031,"date":"2025-06-28T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/136031\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:43:10","slug":"blue-jays-release-spencer-turnbull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/136031\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Release Spencer Turnbull"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays released\u00a0Spencer Turnbull<\/a>, according to the MLB.com transaction log<\/a>. Assuming he clears release waivers, he\u2019ll return to free agency. Toronto had designated the veteran righty for assignment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Turnbull has over five years of MLB service time and had the right to refuse an outright assignment while retaining his prorated (approximate) $1.27MM salary. The Jays didn\u2019t get much from that modest investment. They were shuttling through fifth starters after losing\u00a0Max Scherzer<\/a> to the injured list when they signed Turnbull in early May. He had gone unsigned all winter and wasn\u2019t ready for MLB action, so he spent a little over a month on optional assignment building into game shape in the minors.<\/p>\n

By the time Turnbull was ready to be called up,\u00a0Eric Lauer<\/a> had impressed the club in a swing role. Lauer subsequently took hold of the fifth starter job and remains in the rotation even after Scherzer\u2019s activation, as\u00a0Bowden Francis<\/a> landed on the injured list. Turnbull only made three appearances \u2014 two in relief and one abbreviated start \u2014 and gave up five runs in 6 1\/3 innings. He surrendered 12 hits with four walks and strikeouts apiece.<\/p>\n

Despite the shorter stints, Turnbull\u2019s fastball speed was down a tick. He averaged roughly 91 MPH after sitting at 92 as a swingman for the Phillies last season. He pitched well for Philadelphia, working to a 2.65 ERA while striking out 26% of batters faced in 54 1\/3 innings. His 2024 season ended when he sustained a lat strain in late June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays released\u00a0Spencer Turnbull, according to the MLB.com transaction log. Assuming he clears release waivers, he\u2019ll return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,2027],"class_list":{"0":"post-136031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-spencer-turnbull"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114758222522308399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}