DUNEDIN, Fla. — Well-travelled right-hander Connor Seabold signed a minor-league deal with the Toronto Blue Jays in late January, joining his sixth MLB organization in a career that began nearly a decade ago following a stint as Cal State Fullerton’s Friday night starter.
During Seabold’s spring-training entry meeting, the Blue Jays discussed leaning on his rotation experience — of his 142 career outings, 103 have been starts — to build him up for a bulk role as part of the Buffalo Bisons starting staff or merely as a multi-inning reliever. At triple-A, where pieced-together bullpen days are a regular occurrence, a flexible arm like Seabold’s is valuable.
But that was before he got on a mound and began regularly…