{"id":52951,"date":"2025-10-16T20:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/santander-out-of-playoffs-significant-blow-for-the-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:14:03","slug":"santander-out-of-playoffs-significant-blow-for-the-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/santander-out-of-playoffs-significant-blow-for-the-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Santander Out of Playoffs: Significant Blow for the Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Santander&#8217;s postseason with the Toronto Blue Jays has come to an end. The news was confirmed this Thursday, after the approval of Major League Baseball (MLB) for a substitution in the player list due to an injury of the outfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Santander has been dealing with back issues, which prevented him from participating in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners. Although he played in right field in Game 3, he was replaced after two at-bats in Toronto&#8217;s 13-4 victory, which reduced the series deficit to 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB announcement came a little more than an hour before Game 4 on Thursday night in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the league, Dr. Gary Green, its medical director, confirmed Santander&#8217;s injury &#8220;after a complete review of the medical information.&#8221; Joey Loperfido will take his place on the Toronto roster.<\/p>\n<p>By regulation, Santander will not be able to return for the rest of the American League Championship Series or for the World Series, in case the Blue Jays advance.<\/p>\n<p>Santander signed a five-year, $92.5 million contract with Toronto last offseason, but missed nearly four months due to a left shoulder injury. In 54 games, he hit .175 with 6 home runs and 18 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>In this postseason, his batting average was .200 (3 for 15), with no home runs, 2 RBIs, and 5 strikeouts in five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Santander&#8217;s postseason with the Toronto Blue Jays has come to an end. The news was confirmed this Thursday, after the approval of Major League Baseball (MLB) for a substitution in the player list due to an injury of the outfielder. Santander has been dealing with back issues, which prevented him from participating in Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3181,1212,290,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-52951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mlb","7":"tag-anthony-santander","8":"tag-blue-jays","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-mlb"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}