{"id":156900,"date":"2025-08-18T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156900\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:06:10","slug":"blue-jays-provide-injury-updates-on-garcia-santander-sandlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156900\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays provide injury updates on Garcia, Santander, Sandlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> gear up for their final playoff push, some reinforcements could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters ahead of Monday&#8217;s series opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates, manager John Schneider provided updates on a handful of injured Blue Jays players.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, prized off-season signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/anthony-santander\/d4bc8879-c7dc-430f-bcb8-e932b21a2e7c\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d4bc8879-c7dc-430f-bcb8-e932b21a2e7c\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthony Santander<\/a> has continued to work through his hitting progression in Toronto and will join the team later this week in Miami to continue his ramp-up.<\/p>\n<p>Santander has been on the injured list since late May with shoulder inflammation. After a long period of not picking up a bat, the 30-year-old returned to swinging last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays signed Santander to a five-year, $92.5 million contract in January. In his first 50 games with the team, the 2024 all-star slashed .179\/.273\/.304 with six home runs.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old has spent much of 2025 on the injured list, but in 16.1 innings at the MLB level, Sandlin owns a 2.20 ERA and 16 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"components_block-acf-snippets__kpdtK\">\n<li><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul.skenes.1280-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Watch Blue Jays vs. Skenes on Sportsnet\"\/><\/li>\n<li>Watch Blue Jays vs. Skenes on Sportsnet\n<p>The American League-leading Toronto Blue Jays battle all-star Paul Skenes and the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday. Watch the series opener on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ starting at 6:40 p.m. ET \/ 3:40 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Garc\u00eda, meanwhile, isn&#8217;t progressing toward a return to the field yet.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old right-hander will remain in Toronto as the team decides on next steps.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda has been out since July 5, hitting the IL shortly after returning from a right shoulder impingement. In 21 innings for the Blue Jays this season, he has a 3.86 ERA, three saves and 25 strikeouts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Toronto Blue Jays gear up for their final playoff push, some reinforcements could be on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115052280839680067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}