Former Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Chris Bassitt is still not over last season’s World Series loss and he isn’t sure if he’ll ever be.
Speaking to reporters over the weekend at spring training for his new team, the Baltimore Orioles, Bassitt said that maybe the only thing that would alleviate the feeling of losing Game 7 would be to win a World Series in the future.
“I’m not over it. I think the only way I can possibly get over it is to win one. I don’t think I’ll ever get over that. Still have a lot of pain from it for sure, so it’s for sure unfinished business. But yeah, being so close and yet still so far away,” he said via the Baltimore Banner.
“I mean, anything in baseball or anything really in life is the failures teach you everything. So like, we failed. And a lot of people will say like yeah you didn’t really fail. There wasn’t really a loser in that World Series. No, we lost. Like, we failed. We did things the wrong way and I think the only way to learn and the only way to really get through things is to fail.”
"We failed. A lot of people will say, 'You didn't really fail. There wasn't really a loser in that World Series.' No, we lost. We failed"
— Baltimore Banner Sports (@AllBannerSports) February 14, 2026
Chris Bassitt says he's not over the Blue Jays' World Series loss pic.twitter.com/Y4OL2lip1Y
Toronto lost Game 7 of the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in heartbreaking fashion, coming within two outs of their first title since 1993 in the ninth inning and then losing in extra-innings after multiple opportunities to win it all in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings.
Bassitt said all he and his former teammates can do is learn from the experience going forward.
“If you can just sit back and kind of learn from it, you can be a better person and a better player for it. So it’s just more so guiding people of like hey this is the right way to go about this, this is the wrong way to go about this, so yeah.”
“To answer your question I’m not over it,” he added.
Bassitt and the Orioles finalized their one-year, $18.5 million contract last week. He said the chance to win a World Series is the reason he decided to join the O’s, who have been busy this off-season trying to keep pace in what projects to be a competitive American League East.
“Obviously, one of the biggest reasons, the number one reason, is a chance to win. And not just win a couple games, but win a World Series,” Bassitt said via MLB.com. “And I think this team has the ability to do that.”
The veteran right-hander went 11-9 with a 3.96 ERA in 32 regular-season starts last season for the Blue Jays. He posted a 3.89 ERA in three seasons with the Jays from 2023 to 2025.
