Jose Berrios’s next start will come with the Buffalo Bisons.
Major League Baseball’s transactions page revealed on Tuesday that the Toronto Blue Jays have assigned the 31-year-old righty to their Triple-A affiliate as he works his way back to the big leagues.
Berrios is expected to start in the Bisons’ Tuesday evening game with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees.
Berrios, who started the season on the injured list with a stress fracture in his pitching elbow, made two starts with the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays earlier this month. The Bayamon, Puerto Rico native faced 28 batters over 6.2 innings of work, surrendering five earned runs on eight hits. He struck out eight batters and walked one.
Berrios has 10 seasons of big league experience and has spent the past five seasons with the Blue Jays. For his career spent between the Jays and Minnesota Twins, Berrios is 108-82 with an earned run average of 4.08 and a WHIP of 1.239 in 1,571.2 innings pitched over 275 appearances.
He has two years remaining after the current season on a seven-year, $131 million contract.
