{"id":666927,"date":"2026-04-06T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:12:18","slug":"blue-jays-give-tyler-fitzgerald-mlb-locker-before-dodgers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666927\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays give Tyler Fitzgerald MLB locker before Dodgers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays didn\u2019t waste much time bringing new trade acquisition Tyler Fitzgerald up to the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they wasted a little time.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/blue-jays-all-star-has-fractured-thumb-immediately-placed-on-injured-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jays All-Star has fractured thumb, immediately placed on injured list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two days after he was acquired in a trade with the San Francisco Giants and optioned to Triple-A Buffalo, Fitzgerald has a locker in the Blue Jays\u2019 home clubhouse, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2041230716298534920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeganMatheson\/status\/2041230037387481332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2041230037387481332%7Ctwgr%5E2a8fa68458d88df7a4062d647ac44aae6aa947d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebiglead.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D141821action%3Dedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> April 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays host the Los Angeles Dodgers later in the day, the first of a three-game World Series rematch.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2041230716298534920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2041230716298534920%7Ctwgr%5E097d61592569ac201504d4ab05595378cfd8f166%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebiglead.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D141821action%3Dedit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MitchBannon\/status\/2041232179850551609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> April 6, the Blue Jays also have a locker for pitcher Josh Fleming. The left-handed reliever, whom the Blue Jays signed to a minor league contract in February, hasn\u2019t pitched in an <a href=\"https:\/\/thebiglead.com\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">MLB<\/a> game since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebiglead.com\/blue-jays-sign-two-time-all-star-to-one-year-contract\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jays sign two-time All-Star to $1 million contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to come on this story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays didn\u2019t waste much time bringing new trade acquisition Tyler Fitzgerald up to the big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,57,4,282,70,2553,1739],"class_list":{"0":"post-666927","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-los-angeles-dodgers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-torontobluejays","16":"tag-tyler-fitzgerald"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116359354464318116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666927","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=666927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}