Red Sox vs. Blue Jays picks: Former AL Rookie of the Year favorite Trey Yesavage set for Toronto season debut

He didn't last more than 4.1 innings in any of those and threw only 64 pitches in his finale, so I rather doubt he's out there too long Tuesday – sounds like about 80 pitches max. Yesavage did average 94.3 mph with his fastball in the rehab finale and said he felt he had turned a corner even if "based on the box score, I'd bet you wouldn't guess it." Yesavage has not faced the Red Sox.

"We're making sure that once we hit 'go,' we don't hit 'pause,' " Manager John Schneider said. "He checked all of the boxes that we had hoped for. I wasn't really looking at results, more looking at his stuff and the plan we had laid out since spring training. Getting him here with a little adrenaline and getting him going will be a good thing for him and a good thing for us."

The SportsLine Projection Model forecasts Yesavage at 4.9 innings, 5.7 strikeouts, 4.7 hits allowed and 2.2 earned runs tonight. DraftKings has Yesavage at Over/Under 5.5 strikeouts, 3.5 hits allowed and 1.5 earned runs. No outs recorded number as of this writing.

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The Blue Jays definitely need the reinforcements in the rotation. Kevin Gausman and Dylan Cease have both been very good, but Shane Bieber, Jose Berrios, Bowden Francis and Cody Ponce are all on the injured list, with Francis and Ponce lost for the season.

Patrick Corbin, signed in early April, has been shockingly decent with a 3.68 ERA, but future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer looks completely done with a 9.64. Really, he should be bullpen-bound, but you can't do that to a player of his stature. Instead, he landed on the injured list Monday, so in a way that was a break for Toronto to avoid that bullpen conversation.

Boston starts rookie lefty Payton Tolle, who made his 2026 debut last Thursday and was very impressive in a no-decision vs. the Yankees with one run allowed and a career-best 11 strikeouts in six innings. He also got a few big-league outings in 2025, including an inning of relief vs. Toronto in which he allowed a run. Tolle, +3000 for AL Rookie of the Year, is ranked as the Red Sox's top prospect and No. 15 overall in the sport.

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Boston is on its first three-game winning streak of the season and has looked like a new team, even with all the firings on Saturday. But I expect a lower-scoring close game here. The Jays are getting +1.5 so I simply bumped that up a half-run -- that way can't lose on a two-run Boston homer in top of the 10th or something -- and the total up two. The SportsLine Projection Model has Toronto winning outright. Check out other expert picks in the SportsLine daily newsletter.