{"id":257978,"date":"2026-08-15T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/blue-jays-make-vladimir-guerrero-jr-announcement-in-midst-of-home-run-chase\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:38:47","slug":"blue-jays-make-vladimir-guerrero-jr-announcement-in-midst-of-home-run-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/blue-jays-make-vladimir-guerrero-jr-announcement-in-midst-of-home-run-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays make Vladimir Guerrero Jr. announcement in midst of home run chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/toronto_blue_jays\/29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> aren&#8217;t out of the hunt for an AL wild-card spot yet.<\/p>\n<p>A win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/new_york_yankees\/18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Yankees<\/a> on Friday night moved Toronto just a game out of a playoff spot. In that win, though, came an injury to star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero is in the midst of trying to hit his first home run at the Rogers Centre this season, but that will now have to wait just a bit longer.<\/p>\n<h2>Vladimir Guerrero is hitting the concussion IL<\/h2>\n<p>Guerrero took a knee to the head during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/blue_jays_vladimir_guerrero_jr_injured_in_yankees_botched_play\/s1_13132_44176861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wacky play<\/a> in Friday&#8217;s game and that has landed him on the seven-day concussion injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder Daz Cameron has been recalled from Triple-A Buffalo to replace Guerrero on the 26-man roster.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/blue_jays_make_vladimir_guerrero_jr_announcement_in_midst_of_home_run_chase\/s1_13132_44178651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays aren&#8217;t out of the hunt for an AL wild-card spot yet. A win over the New York Yankees on Friday night moved Toronto just a game out of a playoff spot. In that win, though, came an injury to star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.\u00a0 Guerrero is in the midst of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}