3 Blue Jays who won’t finish the month of September on the big league roster

With just over a couple of weeks left in the 2026 MLB season, the Toronto Blue Jays will be looking to remain in the hunt for a postseason spot. Having posted a respectable 5-4 record so far in September, Toronto has pulled to within a game of the Cleveland Guardians for the third and final AL Wild Card spot.

In the end, the Blue Jays will likely need all of their players to be firing on all cylinders to be able to secure a playoff berth, but there are a few who haven't quite done that. In fact, there are three Blue Jays who probably won’t finish the month of September on the big league roster if they don’t turn things around immediately.

These Blue Jays players could be playing their way off the roster before the regular season is over

OF Jesus Sánchez

Jesus Sánchez has been on the Jays’ highlight reels for all of the wrong reasons in recent weeks. Despite playing respectable defense earlier in the year, it has taken a turn for the worse. In particular, with Sánchez failing to catch a routine fly ball once again in a game against the Kansas City Royals this past week, the Blue Jays’ patience with the 28-year-old is likely growing thin by the second.

He also hasn’t been helping his cause at the plate as well, as he has compiled a miserable .190 average, .618 OPS, along with two runs scored, one home run and six RBIs in his last 30 games. With Anthony Santander beginning a rehab assignment, Sánchez’s days with the big league club could be numbered as a result.

P Michael Lorenzen

The Blue Jays made a pitching depth pickup prior to September when they added Michael Lorenzen to their roster on August 27. With his immense struggles in a starting role with the Colorado Rockies this season, Toronto has utilized Lorenzen mainly in a relief role with the hopes that he could re-establish his consistency from previous seasons.

However, the 34-year-old veteran has looked shaky in three of the four appearances with the Jays. Lorenzen has amassed an 0-1 record with a grizzly 6.23 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, giving up six earned runs including three home runs in just 8.2 total innings pitched for Toronto. In fact, he hasn’t gone a single outing with the Blue Jays without yielding a run.

Lorenzen may be capable in providing bulk innings for Toronto down the stretch. But if he keeps getting scored upon each time he takes the mound, the Blue Jays may no longer be able to afford to carry him.

P Spencer Arrighetti

Finally, we have one of the big trade deadline acquisitions in Spencer Arrighetti. Acquired in the deal that sent Daulton Varsho to the Houston Astros, Arrighetti has disappointed in his tenure with the Blue Jays to date. Despite being one of the best pitchers in all of baseball back in May with the Astros, the 26-year-old right-hander has posted an abysmal 0-4 record with an 8.04 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, yielding almost as many runs (15) as innings pitched (15.2) in four games with Toronto thus far. If Arrighetti was good enough even for one or two wins during that stretch, the Jays would already be in hold of a playoff spot right now.

It is possible that the 26-year-old right-hander still hasn’t fully recovered from his diagnosed Morton’s neuroma condition and isn’t at 100% health at this moment. After all, he may have rushed his injury rehab to get back into the lineup to help the Blue Jays as soon as possible given their rotation woes. In which case, with his current struggles, it may actually be more beneficial to both him and the Jays if he spends some time in the minors to fully rehab his ailment and get his game back on track.

Especially with Trey Yesavage likely due back soon and based on how Arrighetti is pitching now, Toronto Is likely better off with Yesavage and the bullpen posse for every fifth day to join the starting three of Dylan Cease, José Soriano and Max Scherzer for the stretch run.

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