The Toronto Blue Jays won the American League East in for the first time in a decade in 2025 and went to the World Series for the first time since 1993.

Their reward for those incredible moments and accomplishments?

Evidently a series of offseason gut-punches.

While Toronto did excite its fans by signing Dylan Cease, Tyler Rogers and Cody Ponce this offseason, it's been an avalanche of poor news ever since.

First, the Blue Jays saw superstar Bo Bichette leave for the New York Mets in free agency. Then, Toronto missed out on Kyle Tucker, who signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

And then the injury reports started coming in:

First? Bowden Francis is going to miss the season with Tommy John surgery. Then? Shane Bieber is going to start the season on the injured list because of "forearm fatigue."

Now? Jose Berrios is going to start the season on the injured list because of a stress fracture in his right elbow, and the team announced on Thursday that youngster Trey Yesavage is also headed to the injured list.

Per Mitch Bannon of The Athletic, this news doesn't appear to be catastrophic, but it's a setback nonetheless.

Trey Yesavage will start the season on the IL, Schneider says. He has a right shoulder impingement - arrived with it to camp, which played into slow build He’s feeling better now and #BlueJays don’t expect he’ll need to stop throwing. Off a mound again next week

A first-round pick of the Blue Jays in 2024, Yesavage shot through the minors in 2025, appearing in the big leagues in September and October. The 22-year-old went 1-0 in three starts down the stretch and then won games in the American League Division Series, American League Championship Series and World Series. His performance in Game 6 of the ALCS saved Toronto's season and his 12-strikeout win in Game 5 of the World Series was lights out as well.

Because of his late debut in 2025, he is still ranked as the No. 1 prospect in the organization.

The most innings that Yesavage ever threw in college was 93.1 (2024), and he beat that in the 2025 minor league regular season alone, tossing 98.0. However, factoring in his regular season workload and the playoff run, Yesavage ended up tossing nearly 140 innings for the totality of the campaign, meaning that he went significantly past his career-high. Because of that, the Blue Jays were not likely to let him work a full workload in 2026 anyways. If they are able to cut off some of those innings early, they have a better chance at keeping him healthy - and in rhythm - later in the campaign.

Kevin Gausman, Ponce, Max Scherzer and lefty Eric Lauer figure to make up the entirety of the starting rotation at the outset of the season, which begins March 27 against the A's.

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