{"id":754640,"date":"2026-04-26T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:34:14","slug":"blue-jays-yohendrick-pinango-set-for-mlb-debut-in-finale-against-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754640\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Yohendrick Pinango set for MLB debut in finale against Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> rookie outfielder is set to make his MLB debut on Sunday against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Pinango will bat seventh and play left field as the Blue Jays look for their second straight series win (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 1:30 p.m. ET \/ 10:30 a.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Venezuelan has appeared in 22 games with the triple-A Buffalo Bisons this season, hitting three home runs with 13 RBIs and an .858 OPS. He is the team&#8217;s 10th-ranked prospect, per MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Pinango, who bats left-handed, joined the team Saturday when fellow outfielder Nathan Lukes was placed on the 10-day injured list, but did not appear in the Blue Jays&#8217; 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p>He will roam the outfield behind starter Patrick Corbin, who has a 3.68 ERA in three starts for the Blue Jays this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians will counter with right-hander Slade Cecconi, who is 0-3 with a 6.20 ERA on the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays rookie outfielder is set to make his MLB debut on Sunday against the Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-754640","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\/116471744241387489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754640","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=754640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}