{"id":100839,"date":"2025-05-24T19:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=100839"},"modified":"2025-05-24T19:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:55:57","slug":"blue-jays-yimi-garcia-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/24\/blue-jays-yimi-garcia-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Yimi Garcia Injury: Blue Jays Bullpen Takes a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have lost a stalwart in their bullpen today. Manager John Schneider delivered the news on Saturday to multiple reporters that right-hander Yimi Garcia would be landing on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder impingement. The Blue Jays recalled right-hander Paxton Schultz from Triple-A Buffalo as the corresponding move to the Yimi Garcia injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Blue Jays are placing Yimi Garcia on the IL with a right shoulder impingement. Manager John Schneider says issue developed slowly over the last few weeks<\/p>\n<p>Paxton Schultz will be active Saturday night in Blue Jays bullpen<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arden Zwelling (@ArdenZwelling) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArdenZwelling\/status\/1926385799303479517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The Garcia Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Before the Blue Jays took on the Tampa Bay Rays, Schneider talked with reporters about the Garcia injury. He stated that it had been developing for a couple of weeks, as reported by multiple Toronto reporters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough blow for a bullpen that has been shaky at best. The Toronto bullpen has thrown to a 3.64 ERA across 190.1 innings. Their ERA places them just outside the top 10 entering play on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was something of an anchor for the Blue Jays. The 34-year-old has a 3.15 ERA along with 24 strikeouts across 20 innings. He was primarily used in a setup role behind <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/10\/jeff-hoffman-signs-blue-jays-three-year-deal\/\" target=\"_self\">newly signed closer Jeff Hoffman<\/a>. All told, Garcia has three saves and six holds.<\/p>\n<p>While the numbers aren&#8217;t eye-popping, it&#8217;s a steady presence that the Blue Jays desperately need in a crowded AL East. Entering play Saturday, the Blue Jays were 25-25. That&#8217;s good for third place in the AL East, just behind the Boston Red Sox and 5.5 games behind the first place New York Yankees. With the AL Central having a strong showing early in the season, there will be slim margins for error in a crowded AL postseason picture.<\/p>\n<h2>The Role of Paxton Schultz<\/h2>\n<p>This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/20\/blue-jays-relievers-nick-sandlin-paxton-schultz\/\" target=\"_self\">Schultz reached the majors<\/a> with the Blue Jays for the first time. The 27-year-old right-hander threw 6.2 innings for Toronto, giving up three runs and striking out 11. He offers a four-seamer that sits at about 93 MPH, a cutter, a changeup, and a slider to go along with it. While the stuff is there to garner swing and miss, it&#8217;s clear he can struggle with command at times. In the minors this season, he has walked seven across 20.2 innings. His brief stint in the majors saw two walks.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what Schneider and the Jays do in the back end of the bullpen. This will likely lead to increased high-leverage chances for Brendon Little, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/24\/four-blue-jays-deserve-all-star-nods\/\" target=\"_self\">pitched magnificently<\/a> and has landed amongst the top left-handers in the game. With Nick Sandlin still on the IL and now the Garcia injury, the Blue Jays will try to keep it together as the season rolls on.<\/p>\n<p>Main image credit: \u00a9 Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays have lost a stalwart in their bullpen today. Manager John Schneider delivered the news on Saturday to multiple reporters that right-hander Yimi Garcia would be landing on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder impingement. The Blue Jays recalled right-hander Paxton Schultz from Triple-A Buffalo as the corresponding move to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3107,"featured_media":100840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1071,35],"tags":[1366,1190,4352,3494],"class_list":["post-100839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejays","category-mlb","category-news","tag-brendon-little","tag-james-paxton","tag-jeff-hoffman","tag-yimi-garcia"],"modified_by":"Chris Drosehn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100845,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100839\/revisions\/100845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}