{"id":766198,"date":"2026-07-31T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/766198\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:57:20","slug":"blue-jays-likely-sellers-this-weekend-ahead-of-mlbs-trade-deadline-on-monday-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/766198\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays likely sellers this weekend ahead of MLB&#8217;s trade deadline on Monday | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays are expected to be sellers ahead of Monday&#8217;s Major League Baseball trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (50-59) is in last in the American League East and is 5 1\/2 games out of a wild-card berth.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays could move several players over the weekend to reload for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Starting pitchers Kevin Gausman and Shane Bieber as well as outfielders Daulton Varsho and George Springer could all be traded.<\/p>\n<p>Gausman has told reporters he doesn&#8217;t want to leave Toronto but that he understands that baseball is a business.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays open a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Rogers Centre tonight.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays are expected to be sellers ahead of Monday&#8217;s Major League Baseball trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,185,70,30099],"class_list":["post-766198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-trade-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117014235934667613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766198","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=766198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}