Baseball fans have learned in recent years that players who encourage fantasy football and Toronto Blue Jays, Chris Bassitt, reminded them of that.
Bassitt’s punishment for going 4-10 during the 2024 season, becoming the team’s Bat Boy, according to Sportsnet. It served as the spring training game of the team on Saturday against the New York Yankees. He had “4-10” on the back of his shirt.
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The Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Chris Bassitt, launches during spring training in the Cecil B. Englebert complex in Dunedin, Florida, on February 20, 2025. (Images Jonathan Dyer-Imagn)
It was also the 36th birthday of the MLB veteran.
Fantasy Football was a hot conversation theme between Joc Pederson and Tommy Pham in 2022. Pederson, then with the San Francisco giants, and Pham, then with the Cincinnati Reds, got into an incident on fantasy football. He took Pham slapping Pederson for the entire test.
The unique All-Star is entering its eleventh season in the major and third with Toronto. It had an effectiveness of 4.16 in 31 openings for the team last season. He also had 168 strikeouts.
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Bassitt ended tenth in the vote of the Cy Young Award of the American League in 2023. He led the American League with 16 victories, 33 openings and 826 batters faced. He launched in a personal record of 200 tickets.
This season, Fan Graphs projected that Bassitt was holding number 3 in the rotation of the team behind Kevin Gausman and José Berrios. Blue Jays are also expected to have Max Scherzer and Bowden Francis too.
The Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Chris Bassitt, launches during spring training in Dunedin Florida, Sunday, February 16, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press through AP)
Toronto was 74-88 in 2024.
