Toronto Blue Jays Pitchers of the Month - July 2025

The month of July was easily the best month the Toronto Blue Jays have played all season. They started the month with a huge seven-run win on Canada Day, which turned out to be the third of ten straight wins the team would roll off. After that stretch, the Jays also had another run of eight wins in nine games from the 18th to the 26th. They finished July with an 18-8 record.

Most of the team's success was powered by the offence, which scored 150 runs on the month, the most in baseball, but you don’t win that many ballgames without having some upstart pitching performances as well. In this article, we’ll highlight some of the Blue Jays' standout performances and crown one individual as the Pitcher of the Month for July. 

Honourable Mentions
Chris Bassitt: 28.2 IP 4.08 ERA, 28 K, 5.15 FIP, 0.1 fWAR
Bassitt has had better months in his Blue Jays career, but he gets the nod as an honorable mention for the fact that the Blue Jays just seemed to win the games he started this month, going 4-1 in his five starts. The highlight was his six innings with one earned run allowed against the White Sox in a 6-1 win that ended up being shortened by rain after seven innings. The lowlight was his last start of the month in Baltimore, in which he allowed six earned runs while only being able to record seven outs. That outing put a damper on his overall stat line and prevented him from being higher on this list. He also threw one inning in relief in the last game prior to the All-Star break, and the fact that he was willing to do that to give the bullpen some extra rest merits credit in its own right.

Max Scherzer: 22.0 IP, 4.91 ERA, 27 K, 4.41 FIP, 0.2 fWAR
Every start that Scherzer makes, the more the conversation moves away from how his thumb feels and if he’ll be able to make another start, to how his command is and how his stuff plays on the mound. It now looks like Scherzer is a key part of this starting rotation, and it felt like he only got better as the month went on. This was captured in his last start of July in Detroit, in which Scherzer threw a season-high seven innings, allowing just three hits, walking no one, and striking out 11, his highest total in a game since August of 2023. The home run ball has been a bit of an issue, as he’s allowed five home runs in his last three starts, but if Sherzer is able to keep the ball in the yard and the strikeout improvements remain, the Blue Jays will continue to glimpse the talent the three-time Cy Young Award winner still has in him. Not bad for a pitcher who celebrated his 41st birthday this month.

Mason Fluharty: 5.1 IP, 0.00 ERA, 5 K, 2.17 FIP, 0.1 fWAR.
Fluharty was the only Blue Jays reliever to throw at least five innings this past month and not allow a run. Following his recall on July 22, he faced 17 batters in four appearances and allowed just three of them to reach, all without giving up a walk and striking out five, including three of the four Orioles he faced last Wednesday. Fluharty was good in April (2.53 ERA over 10.2 IP), and it looks like this could be the start of another run of quality pitching from the Blue Jays' rookie left-hander. (Editor's Note: Don't look at the numbers from Fluharty's first appearance in August...)

#3 - Yariel Rodríguez: 12.1 IP, 0.73 ERA, 11 K, 2.77 FIP, 0.2 fWAR
Where would this Blue Jays team be without the emergence of Rodríguez this season? He continued his stretch of dominant play with an impressive July, appearing in a team-high 13 games last month and bringing his season ERA down to 2.21 before allowing two earned runs to the Orioles in the series finale last Wednesday. Before that, he had been on a stretch where he allowed just five baserunners (three hits, two walks) and struck out nine over 8.2 IP. The Blue Jays, who have been without Yimi García for significant parts of the season, needed a guy to step up and become a shut-down reliever, and Rodríguez has done just that.  

#2 - Kevin Gausman: 28.2 IP, 2.51 ERA, 32 K, 3.48 FIP, 0.6 fWAR
The Blue Jays' rotation doesn’t really have a true number one ace, but Gausman looks like he’s turning back the clock and is staking his claim as the Blue Jays' best pitcher. In July, he made five starts and just seemed to get better as the month went on, starting off with two earned runs, four walks and three strikeouts against the Yankees, and ending with a gem against the Tigers. Matched up against Tarik Skubal, Gausman threw six innings, allowing just one hit while striking out 10 Tigers hitters. The 10 Ks were his most in a single start this season, and he's now made nine starts in his Blue Jays career with 0 ER and 10+ Ks. That's ace-like stuff, and the Blue Jays will certainly take it going forward.

#1 - Eric Lauer: 29.0 IP, 2.79 ERA, 30 K, 2.23 FIP, 1.1 fWAR
Speaking of ace-like stuff, that's exactly what Lauer has been giving Toronto, as he claims the title of Jays Center's Pitcher of the Month for July.

Lauer still hasn’t allowed more than three earned runs in a start this season, and he was incredibly consistent yet again in July, allowing earned run totals of 2, 2, 2, 1, and 2 in his five starts this month. Dive under the hood, and it looks even better; he struck out 30 batters and issued only three walks. That will play. A 10.00 K/BB ratio had Lauer fifth in all of baseball this past month, ahead of names like Joe Ryan, Skubal, and Jacob deGrom. The 1.1 fWAR he accumulated trailed only Luis Castillo and Paul Skenes for the best in baseball.

Eric Lauer has been everything the Blue Jays could have possibly asked for, and he may be getting even better as the year goes on.