{"id":90886,"date":"2024-12-10T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=90886"},"modified":"2024-12-10T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T00:36:25","slug":"yimi-garcia-signs-two-year-deal-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/10\/yimi-garcia-signs-two-year-deal-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Yimi Garc\u00eda Signs Two-Year Deal with Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garciyi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yimi Garc\u00eda<\/a> has signed a two-year, $15 million deal to return to the Toronto Blue Jays, according to MLB insider Ari Alexander. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/01\/mariners-reliever-yimi-garcia-free-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Garc\u00eda<\/a> comes into the 2025 season looking to rebound from his injury-riddled 2024 season. When healthy, Garc\u00eda establishes himself as a solid and underrated reliever. Garc\u00eda has played for the Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, Houston Astros, and the Blue Jays. His previous stint in Toronto lasted from 2022 to midway through last season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: RHP Yimi Garcia has agreed to terms on a 2-year, $15 million deal with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlueJays<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53QYUm5CVI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/53QYUm5CVI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Alexander (@AriA1exander) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriA1exander\/status\/1866582128273535166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, he pitched a career-high 73 games, which was the fourth most in the American League. Garc\u00eda&#8217;s success in 2025 will depend on him remaining healthy. According to Baseball Savant, Garc\u00eda is in the 85th percentile for average exit velocity, 76th percentile for hard hit %, and 76th percentile for barrel %.<\/p>\n<h2>Blue Jays Sign Veteran Reliever Yimi Garc\u00eda<\/h2>\n<p>The Blue Jays will gain a solid bullpen arm who had an amazing start to the 2024 season before landing on the IL. He recorded a 0.53 ERA across 17 innings of relief work. As a high-leverage pitcher, Garc\u00eda put out several quality outings, even before pitching for the Blue Jays. In 2021, he was dominant as the closer for the Marlins, sporting a 3.47 ERA and 15 saves. Garc\u00eda was also impressive in the shortened 2020 season, making 14 appearances with an ERA of 0.60.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been highly recognized as a prime rescue man in the bullpen. The 2025 season for Garc\u00eda will be a true test for the veteran as he looks to make a comeback. He has a fastball that has been known to be a secret weapon that fools hitters. His great extension with his delivery helps make his fastball such an effective pitch. Garc\u00eda was continuously recognized for his clutch dominance when he pitched for the Blue Jays, so it comes as no surprise that he chose Toronto to help recapture his old form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"NPrrbc\" data-cid=\"77a0cf2d-22cc-43e8-a5c4-f86d3f6074f4\">\n<div class=\"BMebGe btku5b fCrZyc LwdV0e FR7ZSc OJeuxf\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"View related links\" data-hveid=\"CA0QAQ\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwi5w9Hz5Y6KAxXZEFkFHWFeEg8Q3fYKegQIDRAB\">\n<div class=\"niO4u\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"acn1Z\">\n<div id=\"77a0cf2d-22cc-43e8-a5c4-f86d3f6074f4\" data-ad=\"250ms\" data-id=\"_XKZQZ7mlDNmh5NoP4bzJeA_8\" data-os=\"1\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwi5w9Hz5Y6KAxXZEFkFHWFeEg8QzcoNegQIDRAD\">\n<div id=\"_XKZQZ7mlDNmh5NoP4bzJeA_8\">\n<div class=\"bdcbIc qNN1De\">\n<div class=\"g22c4d GpOaz vnmqGf\" role=\"dialog\" aria-labelledby=\"_XKZQZ7mlDNmh5NoP4bzJeA_12\" data-cid=\"ucid77a0cf2d-22cc-43e8-a5c4-f86d3f6074f4\" data-hveid=\"CA0QBA\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwi5w9Hz5Y6KAxXZEFkFHWFeEg8QpqAIegQIDRAE\">\n<div class=\"zZYdU\">\n<div class=\"cZod8d YW5Pje\">\n<div class=\"j80PPb\">\n<div id=\"_XKZQZ7mlDNmh5NoP4bzJeA_12\" class=\"eDOiKb\">\n<div class=\"c7pZVe BeGmQd\" role=\"heading\">\n<div aria-label=\"Links\">Photo Credit: \u00a9 Steven Bisig-Imagn Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-handed reliever Yimi Garc\u00eda has signed a two-year, $15 million deal to return to the Toronto Blue Jays, according to MLB insider Ari Alexander. Garc\u00eda comes into the 2025 season looking to rebound from his injury-riddled 2024 season. When healthy, Garc\u00eda establishes himself as a solid and underrated reliever. Garc\u00eda has played for the Seattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":90902,"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":[3494],"class_list":["post-90886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejays","category-mlb","category-news","tag-yimi-garcia"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886","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\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91765,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90886\/revisions\/91765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}