{"id":674506,"date":"2026-04-13T04:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:06:20","slug":"blue-jays-re-sign-josh-fleming-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/674506\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Re-Sign Josh Fleming On Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blue Jays are re-signing left-hander Josh Fleming<\/a> on a minor league deal, as Mitch Bannon of The Athletic<\/a> has reported. Fleming previously signed Fleming to a minor league deal in February and briefly called him up before designating him for assignment last week, at which point he elected free agency.<\/p>\n

A fifth-round pick by the Rays back in 2017, Fleming made his big league debut in the shortened 2020 season an made a solid first impression with a 2.78 ERA across his first 32 2\/3 innings of work as a rookie. That strong production was belied by weak peripherals, however, and in 2021 Fleming found himself exposed with a lackluster 5.09 ERA in 104 1\/3 frames as a swing man for Tampa. Fleming stuck with the Rays for two more seasons, posting a 5.40 ERA in 22 appearances as a long reliever and spot starter. He was non-tendered by the Rays after the 2023 season and joined the Pirates on a one-year deal, where he pitched to a decent 4.02 ERA in 31 1\/3 innings. He did not find his way to the majors last year and spent the entire 2025 campaign at the Triple-A level with the Mariners before joining Toronto this past offseason.<\/p>\n

Now that Fleming is back in the organization, the lefty can be called upon to help a beleaguered Blue Jays pitching staff. Bowden Francis<\/a>, Cody Ponce<\/a>, Shane Bieber<\/a>, Trey Yesavage<\/a>, and Jose Berrios<\/a> are all already on the injured list. Veteran right-hander Max Scherzer<\/a> is currently pitching through forearm tendinitis but could be facing an IL stint of his own after 2 1\/3 innings of eight-run baseball. Keegan Matheson of MLB.com<\/a> reports that Trey Yesavage could be back in the mix next week, but for now the Blue Jays are in serious need of depth.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Fleming could come in. The soon-to-be 30-year-old southpaw turned in four innings of three-run ball in his lone long relief outing for the Blue Jays before being DFA\u2019d. Even prior to that outing, Fleming had a 4.77 ERA and 4.65 FIP in the majors for his career. Even at Triple-A, he\u2019s managed just a 4.18 ERA over his career. The lefty isn\u2019t likely to offer impactful innings to the Blue Jays, but for a club desperate to eat innings with any sort of consistency Fleming could end up proving vital during this tough stretch for Toronto. Yariel Rodriguez<\/a>, Lazaro Estrada<\/a>, and perhaps Adam Macko<\/a> are among the club\u2019s other options who can offer multi-inning relief work or a spot start who aren\u2019t already on the active roster or injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays are re-signing left-hander Josh Fleming on a minor league deal, as Mitch Bannon of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,59036,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-674506","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-josh-fleming","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116395428035433178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674506","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=674506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}