Jesse Hahn and Michael Plassmeyer are out, and John Schneider's Blue Jays just cleared more pitching space in Buffalo.
The Blue Jays' June transaction log shows the Buffalo Bisons released Hahn and Plassmeyer on June 9. The moves came on the same day Toronto kept reshaping its upper-level depth chart.
This was not a random cleanup. Toronto also outrighted Tanner Andrews to Buffalo, optioned Adam Macko to the Bisons, and sent Alejandro Kirk on a rehab assignment there. That is a lot of roster traffic hitting one affiliate at once.
So yes, the timing tells the story. The Blue Jays needed room at Triple-A, and 2 veteran arms lost their place in the shuffle.
Hahn was the older of the 2 and the more familiar major-league name. His MiLB player page listed him as a 36-year-old right-hander on Buffalo's roster, and his 2026 line sat at a 6.65 ERA over 18 appearances and 21.2 innings.
That is a hard number to carry when a club is trying to stock Buffalo with arms it may actually need in Toronto. Hahn still struck out 23 hitters, but the 2.03 WHIP shows how messy too many outings became.
Plassmeyer's release lands a little differently because he is younger and left-handed. His MiLB page had him on Buffalo's roster as a 29-year-old lefty before the transaction log flipped his status out of the system.
Toronto chose roster flexibility over veteran depth
That is the real angle here. The Blue Jays are getting healthier on the major-league side, and once that starts happening, the Triple-A roster gets squeezed fast.
Buffalo is the first place that pressure shows up. Macko arriving from Toronto and Kirk landing there for rehab meant more bodies, and those moves came right alongside other June transactions all over the affiliate ladder.
For Hahn, this looks like the end of a short insurance run. He brought MLB experience, but the performance never gave Toronto a strong reason to keep holding the spot.
For Plassmeyer, it is more about fit. The Blue Jays had already signed him as part of a group of minor-league free agents with spring invites, but being on that kind of deal never guarantees a long stay once roster pressure builds.
These are not headline-grabbing moves in the big-league clubhouse, but they matter in June. Organizations win depth battles by constantly turning the bottom of the roster, and Toronto just did that again.
The Blue Jays made room. Jesse Hahn and Michael Plassmeyer were the 2 pitchers who paid for it.
Did the Blue Jays make the right call by releasing Jesse Hahn and Michael Plassmeyer?
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