{"id":655174,"date":"2026-03-31T20:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:59:18","slug":"ex-seattle-mariners-pitcher-signs-minors-deal-with-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655174\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Seattle Mariners pitcher signs minors deal with Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redmond native and former Seattle Mariners pitcher Austin Voth signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/passan-why-seattle-mariners-signing-colt-emerson-massive-extension\/1844274\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Passan: Why Mariners \u2013 and Colt Emerson \u2013 agreed on record extension<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voth also pitched for the UW Huskies in college.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old is currently pitching for Toronto\u2019s Triple-A affiliate in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Voth last pitched in the majors during the 2024 season with his hometown Mariners. The right-hander appeared in 68 games that season, compiling a 2-5 record, 3.69 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 61 strikeouts and 18 walks over 61 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Voth played overseas in 2025 with the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. He had a 3-9 record, 3.96 ERA and 1.26 WHIP with 92 strikeouts and 28 walks over 125 innings in 22 games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlesports.sports.gracenote.com\/baseball\/mlb\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MLB Standings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voth has pitched in seven MLB seasons for the Mariners, Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles. In 207 career games (39 starts), he has a 17-19 record, 4.70 ERA and 1.34 WHIP with 343 strikeouts and 129 walks over 360 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth-round pick by the Nationals in 2013, Voth played three college seasons at UW. He finished third in the Pac-12 with 98 strikeouts while going 7-6 with a 2.99 ERA over 105 1\/3 innings in 17 games (15 starts) during his final season 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Voth won a Class 4A state title in 2010 with Covington\u2019s Kentwood High School.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Mariners coverage<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/shannon-drayer\/seattle-mariners-shannon-drayer-closer-look-colt-emerson-extension\/1844271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drayer: A closer look at Mariners\u2019 extension with Colt Emerson<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/report-seattle-mariners-colt-emerson-95m-extension\/1844263\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Mariners, Colt Emerson agree to record $95 million extension<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/cal-raleigh-seattle-mariners-walkoff-win-yankees\/1844228\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh delivers Seattle Mariners\u2019 first walkoff win of \u201926<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/brendan-donovan-perfect-fit-seattle-mariners\/1844177\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Donovan shows why he\u2019s a perfect fit for Seattle Mariners<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-top-pitching-prospects-anderson-sloan-open-2026-double-a\/1844173\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners\u2019 top two pitching prospects to open 2026 in Double-A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZacHereth\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @ZacHereth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seattle-Mariners_830x100.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seattle-Mariners_830x100.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Redmond native and former Seattle Mariners pitcher Austin Voth signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-655174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116325801844596772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655174","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=655174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}