{"id":8237,"date":"2025-05-07T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/8237\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:31:10","slug":"former-beloved-blue-jays-catcher-danny-jansen-is-facing-troubling-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/8237\/","title":{"rendered":"Former beloved Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen is facing troubling crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former beloved Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen is facing troubling crisis\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/557724.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Former Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen struggling in Tampa Bay #bluejays #mlb\" title=\"Former Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen struggling in Tampa Bay #bluejays #mlb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Over the monster<\/p>\n<p>Former Beloved Toronto Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen has been dealing with a serious crisis this season as he cannot seem to generate any offense.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays traded Jansen last season at the deadline to the Boston Red Sox as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/danny-jansen-643376\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jansen<\/a> was set to become a free agent in the off-season in which he signed a one year deal with the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p> Former Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen has been struggling to produce hits this season with the Rays<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/danny-jansen-643376\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jansen<\/a> signed a one year deal this off-season in hopes of having a great year in Tampa Bay and landing a multi-year deal next off-season but unfortunately things have been going very poorly for him with the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Jansen has only 10 hits in 68 at bats for the Rays with a .147 batting average to go along with 1 homerun, 5 RBIs, a .3011 on base percentage and .522 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Jansen .154\/.304\/.231\/.535 with 1 homer &amp; 5 RBI<\/p>\n<p>Ha-Seong Kim (recovering from injury)<\/p>\n<p>After a historically bad 2024 offense, those were this teams biggest offensive FA pick ups.<\/p>\n<p>5x they&#8217;ve been shutout (3x vs NYY)<br \/>13x they&#8217;ve scored 2 runs or less (1-12 record)<\/p>\n<p>#RaysUp<\/p>\n<p>Danny Jansen has been really disappointing<\/p>\n<p>Even Blue Jays fans have been quite happy with the team&#8217;s decision to keep Alejandro Kirk instead of Jansen since Kirk has been having a much better season so far in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>I look at Danny Jansen&#8217;s stats then I look at Kirk&#8217;s. We kept the right one.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Jansen is able to turn things around but it does not look good as of right now if not there is no chance he lands a longer deal than he go last off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Blue Jays Insider<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>15 MINUTES AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a017 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Former beloved Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen is facing troubling crisis<\/p>\n<p>Did the Blue Jays make the right decision in letting go of Danny Jansen?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBLUEJAYSINSIDER.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluejaysinsider.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluejaysinsider.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former beloved Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen is facing troubling crisis Photo credit: Over the monster Former Beloved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,3518,4789,4,68,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-8237","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-catcher","12":"tag-danny-jansen","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114467273761313835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237","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=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}