Blue Jays add starting pitching depth with Spencer Turnbull, Jose Urena

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 05, 2025 5:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 19 minutes ago

The Toronto Blue Jays person signed right-handed pitchers Spencer Turnbull and Jose Urena to one-year large league contracts, the Major League Baseball nine announced Monday.

Turnbull was optioned to the Florida Complex League Blue Jays roster arsenic helium continues to get into crippled signifier aft missing overmuch of past season.

The 32-year-old appeared successful 17 games (seven starts) with Philadelphia successful 2024, posting a 3-0 grounds with a 2.65 earned-run mean and 58 strikeouts, earlier being placed connected the injured database connected June 27 with a close lat strain.

Turnbull, from Demopolis, Ala., has a 15-29 grounds with a 4.26 ERA successful 78 vocation appearances (67 starts) with Detroit and Philadelphia. He threw the eighth no-hitter successful Tigers past connected May 18, 2021.

Urena, 33, made 1 quality for the New York Mets this play and 3 starts for their triple-A affiliate successful Syracuse.

The pitcher from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, had a 5-8 grounds with a 3.80 ERA and 70 strikeouts implicit 33 appearances (nine starts) with the Texas Rangers successful 2024.

Urena has played 11 seasons with Miami, Detroit, Colorado, the Chicago White Sox, Texas and the Mets with a vocation 44-77 grounds and 3.80 ERA.

To marque country connected the 40-man roster, right-handers Max Scherzer (right thumb inflammation) and Erik Swanson (right median nervus entrapment) person been transferred to the 60-day injured list. Left-hander Josh Walker was optioned to triple-A Buffalo.