Blue Jays star Shane Bieber is opting into his $16 million participant possibility for 2026, The Submit’s Jon Heyman reported.
Bieber will make $16 million in 2026, the ultimate yr of a two-year, $26 million contract that he initially inked with the Guardians final winter.
Had he declined his participant possibility, Bieber would have acquired a $4 million buyout.
“This group is not like another that I’ve been part of,” Bieber stated following the season, per The Athletic. “That’s a sentiment that all of us sort of shared.”
The Guardians traded Bieber to the Blue Jays on July 31, and the right-handed starter made seven begins within the common season following the commerce, posting a 4-2 document with a 3.57 ERA and a 1.017 WHIP.
Throughout the playoffs, Bieber went 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA and a 1.446 WHIP.
Nonetheless, Bieber was recovering from Tommy John surgical procedure when he arrived in Toronto and took a while earlier than he returned from the process.
Bieber received the American League Cy Younger Award in 2020 whereas with the Guardians, going 8-1 and posting a 1.63 ERA in the course of the COVID-19 shortened season.
Over the course of his profession, Bieber has gone 66-34 in 141 begins with a 3.24 ERA and 995 strikeouts, whereas additionally making two All-Star appearances.
Bieber’s choice to stay in Toronto retains him as a part of a pitching workers that features Kevin Gausman, Jose Berrios, Trey Yesavage, Eric Lauer and Bowden Francis.
The Blue Jays can have loads of expectations on them going into subsequent season after a run to the World Sequence that got here right down to an extra-innings loss to the Dodgers in Recreation 7.
Bieber got here into the sport out of the bullpen to pitch in reduction and surrendered the go-ahead dwelling run to Will Smith within the eleventh inning.
