5 Blue Jays most deserving of a September call up this year

With the fallout of the 2025 MLB trade deadline, along with the return of some key players from the injured list, the Toronto Blue Jays appear to have their major league roster more or less set, heading into the stretch run. However, with the month of September approaching in just about a week’s time, MLB rosters will expand to 28 to allow teams to add two more players to potentially fill specific roles to help out the club.

With that in mind, let's take a look at five candidates that could get the call to join Toronto for the stretch run when the September call ups get announced.

5 Blue Jays most deserving of a September call up this year

Braydon Fisher

Without question Braydon Fisher had been one of the Jays’ top arms in the bullpen this 2025 season. In 41 total appearances, Fisher compiled a perfect 4-0 record with a solid 3.03 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, giving up only three home runs all year while striking out a whopping 50 batters in just 38 2/3 innings pitched. The only real plausible reason why he was sent back down to the minors this past week was due to the fact he had options remaining.

The strategy from the Jays’ brass was likely to hold down the fort for about 10 days and then bring him back to rejoin the team for the final month with nobody lost on waivers in the process.

Joey Loperfido

Despite being one of the Jays top hitters during his time up with the big league club, Joey Loperfido was optioned back down to the minors due to a numbers game when regulars Daulton Varsho and George Springer were ready to play again in the outfield. He also happened to have multiple options remaining, whereas Myles Straw and Nathan Lukes have none and only one left respectively. Similar to the situation with Fisher, it allows the Jays to retain their key players in the organization.

In his 30 games with Toronto, Loperfido posted a stellar .358 average, .915 OPS, along with 10 runs scored, three home runs and 10 RBIs while committing zero errors for a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage on defence.

Jonatan Clase

Jonatan Clase hasn’t really been hitting the ball our of the park all season, however, Clase could bring one element that Toronto has been severely lacking for the bulk of 2025, and that is speed on the basepaths. So far this year, the Jays have stole only 61 bases in total, which ties them for third last in the entire league. As for their current leader on the team in steals, that just so happens to be the soon-to-be 36-year-old Springer with just 13 in total.

For Clase, he has already racked up 30 stolen bases on the season (27 with Buffalo and three with Toronto) and is just two years removed from his 79 steals in 2023 while in the Mariners system.

Alek Manoah

Alek Manoah has worked hard all year in the recovery process with hopes that he could rejoin the Jays before the 2025 season concludes. After all, Manoah was well on his way to redemption during the 2024 campaign with a solid 3.70 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, with 26 strikeouts in 24 1/3 total innings. However, Manoah’s season was ultimately cut short due to elbow problems that eventually led to season-ending Tommy John surgery.

In his latest rehab start with Buffalo he looked solid, going 4 2/3 innings allowing just one earned run on three hits with four strikeouts as he is starting to find his groove.

Trey Yesavage

Trey Yesavage has put together a phenomenal 2025 campaign, ascending four minor league levels in just his first season of professional baseball. In 21 games that included 20 starts, the 22-year-old right-hander has a 5-1 record with a 3.31 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, along with 145 strikeouts in just 87 innings of work.

More significantly, with his elite strikeout ability, Yesavage could help augment the Toronto bullpen in the stretch run and could potentially be a secret weapon Jays manager John Schneider can deploy during the postseason, much like how Orion Kerkering worked out for the Philadelphia Phillies down the stretch in 2023.