Toronto’s latest roster move may have opened the door Chad Dallas has been waiting for.
On Tuesday, the Blue Jays optioned rookie outfielder Yohendrick Pinango to the minors and recalled Dallas, according to Hazel Mae of Sportsnet. For the 26-year-old right-hander, it’s another shot with the big league club after two earlier call-ups this season that never really had time to breathe.
Dallas has already been through the stop-and-start routine once. His first promotion turned into just one appearance, his MLB debut.
The second call-up didn’t get him into a game at all. Now, with a fresh opportunity in hand, the Blue Jays pitching prospect gets a real chance to show he can stay.
Dallas was Toronto’s fourth-round pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, and at one point he climbed as high as No. 15 in the organization’s prospect rankings, per MLB Pipeline. The path to this point wasn’t smooth, though. He had Tommy John surgery on his right elbow near the end of 2024, which wiped out his entire 2025 season.
Back healthy in 2026, Dallas started the year with Triple-A Buffalo and put together a solid body of work: a 3.44 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 18 walks and 48 strikeouts over 49.2 innings in 14 appearances, including 10 starts. It was his best stretch since his breakout 2023 season, when he went 9-3 with a 3.65 ERA, a 1.19 WHIP and 144 strikeouts in 123.1 innings across 23 starts.
His lone appearance for Toronto this year came on Jun. 4 against the Atlanta Braves, and he made it count. Dallas allowed one run on two hits, walked two and struck out two over 3.2 innings, and he picked up his first major league win in the process.
This time, Dallas will be hoping the Blue Jays have a harder time sending him back down.
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