{"id":154544,"date":"2025-07-05T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154544\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:00:09","slug":"blue-jays-place-yimi-garcia-on-15-day-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154544\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Place Yimi Garcia On 15-Day Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays announced that right-hander Yimi Garcia<\/a> has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to a left ankle sprain.\u00a0 Right-hander Robinson Pina<\/a> was called up from Triple-A to take Garcia\u2019s spot on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Garcia was only just activated from a prior IL stint on Wednesday, as the reliever had missed just under six weeks due to a shoulder impingement.\u00a0 The righty\u2019s brief return to Toronto\u2019s roster consisted of one appearance and one inning of work that saw Garcia surrender a game-tying two-run homer to Aaron Judge<\/a>, though Garcia was still the winning pitcher in the Jays\u2019 11-9 win over the Yankees.<\/p>\n

That outing boosted Garcia\u2019s ERA to 3.86 over 21 innings and 22 games.\u00a0 Garcia has been missing a lot of bats (27.8% strikeout rate), but he has a 13.3% walk rate that would be far and away the highest of his 11 big league seasons.\u00a0 While Garcia hasn\u2019t necessarily been at his sharpest, he has still been a key high-leverage arm out of the Blue Jays\u2019 bullpen, and he\u2019ll now be out again until at least beyond the All-Star break.<\/p>\n

The lack of depth at the back of Toronto\u2019s rotation has led the team to lean hard on its bullpen, as the Jays rank eighth in baseball with 337 2\/3 relief innings pitched.\u00a0 The Blue Jays figured to be targeting starting and relief pitching at the deadline already, and their needs in the pen will be exacerbated if there\u2019s now any question about Garcia\u2019s availability in the rest of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays announced that right-hander Yimi Garcia has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,4,22742,282,70,2553,2077],"class_list":{"0":"post-154544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-robinson-pina","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-torontobluejays","16":"tag-yimi-garcia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154544","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=154544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}