{"id":413661,"date":"2025-11-03T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/413661\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:45:18","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-fan-set-for-life-after-winning-25m-in-record-breaking-50-50-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/413661\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays fan set for life after winning $25M in record-breaking 50\/50 jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays 50\/50 raffle just set an all-time record, and now one of their fans never has to work another day in their life.<\/p>\n<p>The World Series Jackpot raked in over $50 million worth of 50\/50 raffle ticket sales, smashing the previous baseball record. Fifty per cent of that total will go to the Jays Care Foundation, while the remaining amount goes to the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Aric from Oshawa, Ont. is the lucky fan, winning over $25 million. That&#8217;s more money than any Blue Jays player made this season, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/toronto\/guerrero-contract-toronto-blue-jays-canadian-sports-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with the exception of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations to the biggest 50\/50 jackpot winner in baseball history, Aric from Oshawa! \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BlueJays<\/a> fans for raising a record-setting $25,010,057 this World Series. We truly appreciate your incredible support all season long! \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdwd1k3nvs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xdwd1k3nvs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Jays Care Foundation (@JaysCare) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaysCare\/status\/1985391536918413772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, Blue Jays fans for raising a record-setting $25,010,057 this World Series,&#8221; the Jays Care Foundation posted on social media. &#8220;We truly appreciate your incredible support all season long!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                Lead photo by <\/p>\n<p>Nick Turchiaro\/Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays 50\/50 raffle just set an all-time record, and now one of their fans never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,283,377,2554,284,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-413661","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","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-jays","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115487488715240775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413661","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=413661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}