{"id":57492,"date":"2023-01-31T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=57492"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:17:45","slug":"chad-green-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/01\/31\/chad-green-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Green in Agreement on a Deal With the Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chad Green is signing a two-year, $8.5 million deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/23\/blue-jays-outfielder\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>. Michael Marino of Fantrax was the first to report on the deal, including options for 2025 and 2026. The 31-year-old spent his entire career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/19\/yankees-left-field-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New York Yankees<\/a> since 2016. Tommy John surgery but an abrupt halt to Green&#8217;s 2022 campaign, undergoing the procedure in June. A return to the mound in 2023 is possible but likely after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: Chad Green in agreement on a deal with the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Marino (@MarinoMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarinoMLB\/status\/1620486141786075137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is a complicated structure that will occur after this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1620496430527025158\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a> reports that the Blue Jays will decide on a three-year club option. Should they differ, Green is eligible for a player option for 2024. If he declines, Toronto can decide on a two-year option with a higher value.<\/p>\n<h2>Chad Green to the Blue Jays<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/05\/rick-porcello-reitrement-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> drafted Green in the 11th round of the 2013 MLB Draft. Green appeared in 62 games, starting in 52 of them. He compiled a 15-18 record in three minor league seasons with a 3.55 ERA, 278 strikeouts, and one save in 299 1\/3 innings pitched. In December 2015, Green was traded to the Yankees for Justin Wilson. He began the year with Tripe-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre. The Yankees promoted Green on May 14, 2016, while pitching in several roles. Green was a starter early in his career but transitioned to a reliever capable of throwing multiple innings.<\/p>\n<p>Since his debut, Green has been seen as a reliable-late inning option. He owns a career 3.17 ERA and&#8217;s also known to be a high-velocity strikeout machine with 11.6 K\/9. His addition to the Blue Jays shows Toronto&#8217;s front office willingness to improve the bullpen. Earlier in the offseason, they <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/11\/18\/teoscar-hernandez-trade-offseason\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">bolstered their bullpen<\/a> by acquiring Erik Swanson from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2022\/12\/11\/jerry-dipoto-trades-seattle\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> for Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"zZkVQB2gSmNsNJsDYsIkcQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1240249249\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'zZkVQB2gSmNsNJsDYsIkcQ',sig:'mJiItrM2f3J-3mxGU4ay6fPnF7-sMz8vP2HkERiWYFk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1240249249',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Players mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greench03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chad Green<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=wilsoju10,wilson004jus&amp;search=Justin+Wilson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Wilson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/swanser01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Swanson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernate01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Green is signing a two-year, $8.5 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays. Michael Marino of Fantrax was the first to report on the deal, including options for 2025 and 2026. The 31-year-old spent his entire career with the New York Yankees since 2016. Tommy John surgery but an abrupt halt to Green&#8217;s 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":57493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[7,2,1071,35],"tags":[4673,1701,5047,2262,1198],"class_list":["post-57492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejays","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-bluejays-featured","tag-chad-green","tag-erik-swanson","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-teoscar-hernandez"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}