The Toronto Blue Jays are making some adjustments of their bullpen forward of Sunday’s sequence finale in Chicago.
Relievers Brendon Little and Lazaro Estrada have been optioned to triple-A Buffalo, the Blue Jays announced, with Joe Mantiply and Austin Voth chosen to the major-league roster of their place.
To make room for the brand new pitchers on the 40-man roster, Cody Ponce and Anthony Santander have been transferred to the 60-day injured checklist.
Little has struggled mightily for the Blue Jays in 2026, permitting 10 earned runs in 3.2 innings and incomes two losses. Three of these runs got here on Saturday, when Little allowed two dwelling runs to left-handed batters and coughed up Toronto’s lead.
The 29-year-old will head to triple-A and look to recapture his type from the primary half of 2025, when he struck out 65 batters in 44.1 innings and carried a 2.03 ERA.
Estrada will head again to Buffalo after 4 hitless innings on Saturday. The 26-year-old was recalled after Cody Ponce’s damage earlier within the week and figured to present the Blue Jays some bulk innings in reduction.
However after tossing 66 pitches on Saturday, Toronto is choosing some recent arms for the approaching days.
Mantiply and Voth, a pair of veteran pitchers, arrived with the Blue Jays after inking minor-league offers with the membership earlier within the spring.
Mantiply, 35, was let go by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2025 after permitting 17 earned runs in 9.2 innings. An all-star in 2022, the left-hander landed with Toronto later within the season and posted a 3.45 ERA over 15.2 triple-A innings.
This season, Mantiply has allowed one earned run in 3.2 innings, placing out three and strolling none for the Bisons.
Voth, in the meantime, final pitched within the majors in 2024 with the Seattle Mariners and spent 2025 pitching in Nippon Skilled Baseball.
He had made only one triple-A look in 2026, permitting two runs in 3.0 innings of labor.