{"id":78416,"date":"2024-06-29T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=78416"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:37:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-designate-tim-mayza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/29\/toronto-blue-jays-designate-tim-mayza\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays Designate Longest Tenured Player For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays designated lefty reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mayzati01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Mayza<\/a> for assignment on Saturday and selected the contract of right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cuasjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jose Cuas<\/a> from Triple-A Buffalo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ROSTER MOVES:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 We\u2019ve recalled RHP Jose Cuas from Triple-A<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 LHP Tim Mayza designated for assignment <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E6cc7kIIZb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/E6cc7kIIZb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJays\/status\/1807064034996260884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mayza spent the past few seasons as a reliable, high-quality arm in Toronto&#8217;s bullpen. Unfortunately, both he and the Blue Jays have both struggled this season, and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/28\/blue-jays-trade-deadline-stay-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">urgency to perform<\/a> only growing as the trade deadline approaches, the organization decided to move on.<\/p>\n<h2>Toronto Blue Jays Designate Tim Mayza For Assignment<\/h2>\n<p>Mayza spent the past 12 years in the Blue Jays organization after being selected in the 12th round of the 2013 draft. His career started a bit slowly after he made his big league debut in 2017. From that year through 2019, the lefty tossed 104 innings across 129 games and posted a 4.67 ERA (95 ERA+).<\/p>\n<p>The rough start continued as he missed the entire 2020 campaign due to Tommy John surgery. However, Mayza rebounded nicely from the surgery and pitched better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>From 2021-2023, Mayza appeared in 193 games and posted a 2.67 ERA (158 ERA+) in 155 innings. He succeeded with slightly better than average walk and strikeout rates and by excelling at inducing ground balls and preventing barrels.<\/p>\n<p>2023 appeared to be a major breakout for the Pennsylvania-native. Last year, he produced a 1.52 ERA (281 ERA+) in over 53 1\/3 innings of work. While Toronto likely didn&#8217;t anticipate Mayza to continue providing results that were 181 percent better than league average, they surely expected him to continue pitching well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tim Mayza had been the longest tenured Jay. Jos\u00e9 Bautista was still there playing RF when Mayza made his debut. Pretty effective reliever for a while, but had a huge drop in both K and GB this year, this is a hard trend to overcome. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u5rgwf59QS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/u5rgwf59QS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mike_petriello\/status\/1807066160820613347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Blue Jays will designate Mayza for assignment after three horrendous months following his breakout season. This year, the 32-year-old has been hurt by home runs and hard contact. Plus, he is not striking batters out nor is he generating ground balls or weak contact.<\/p>\n<p>His production has done a complete 180, evident by a 8.03 ERA in 24 2\/3 innings. Mayza might have hit rock bottom in his last two outings, where he faced a combined seven batters and recorded no outs but allowed seven runs.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next For Mayza<\/h3>\n<p>The Blue Jays must quickly save their season and seemingly had no choice but to designate Mayza now. As a result, the organization will eat the remainder of his $1.7 million salary this year unless a team claims him or takes on his contract via trade.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his struggles, Mayza could realistically interest many teams. With his track record of success, inexpensive salary, and one more year of team control, it&#8217;s not hard to see a team claiming or trading for him. The acquisition cost likely won&#8217;t be that high, and surely will be cheaper than prices at the deadline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re the kind who hopes good things happen to good people, root hard for Tim Mayza. As humble, down to earth and well-liked as any player I\u2019ve come across. Hope he can find success on his next stop.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Shulman (@DShulman_ESPN) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DShulman_ESPN\/status\/1807072896499556746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Contenders always need more pitching this time of year and will always look for deals. Because of this, Mayza should land on his feet in a good situation.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: \u00a0<em>Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays designated lefty reliever Tim Mayza for assignment on Saturday and selected the contract of right-hander Jose Cuas from Triple-A Buffalo. ROSTER MOVES: \ud83d\udd39 We\u2019ve recalled RHP Jose Cuas from Triple-A \ud83d\udd39 LHP Tim Mayza designated for assignment pic.twitter.com\/E6cc7kIIZb &mdash; Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) June 29, 2024 Mayza spent the past few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":78447,"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":[5901],"class_list":["post-78416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejays","category-mlb","category-news","tag-tim-mayza"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78416","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\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}