"The 36-year-old has spent the last three seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and posted a 3.89 ERA across 96 games in Toronto. He was an integral part of the rotation for the Blue Jays, logging over 541 innings for the team out of the rotation, the most of any Blue Jays starter in the last five years. He also set a career high in wins with 16 in the 2023 season, highlighted by a complete game against the Atlanta Braves in early May."
"With the signings of Dylan Cease and Cody Ponce, losing Bassitt was looking inevitable for the club, but there was always a sense that a reunion was possible, given the new updates about Shane Bieber likely starting the season on the IL and Bowden Francis being out for the season. As a reliever for the Blue Jays in the 2025 postseason, Bassitt was lights out with a 1.04 ERA in seven games, allowing just one earned run in that span."
"What Bassitt brings to the table is a slew of eight different pitches varying from a sinker, cutter, curveball, four-seam fastball, sweeper, slider, changeup and splitter. His sinker provided him a lot of success in Toronto as batters were held to just hitting .220 against it, but it has inflated to .326 in 2024 and .297 in 2025. He also surrendered 22 home runs last season, which would have tied him for second on the Orioles behind former starter Tomoyuki Sugano."
Chris Bassitt agreed to a one-year, $18.5 million contract with the Baltimore Orioles pending a physical. The 36-year-old spent three seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and posted a 3.89 ERA across 96 games. He logged over 541 innings for Toronto, the most of any Blue Jays starter in the last five years, and set a career-high 16 wins in 2023, including a complete game against the Atlanta Braves. Bassitt recorded a 1.04 ERA in seven relief appearances in the 2025 postseason. Baltimore ranked 26th in ERA in 2025 and allowed the fourth-most home runs. Bassitt throws eight pitches, and his sinker averaged .220 in Toronto before inflating to .326 in 2024 and .297 in 2025; he surrendered 22 home runs last season.
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