Chad Dallas Sits Out Buffalo Start List as Blue Jays Worry Mounts — Buffalo Bisons
buffalo bisons starter Chad Dallas was not listed for Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, while Triple-A Buffalo lined up CJ Van Eyk, Josh Fleming and Austin Voth over the next three days. That keeps Dallas in view as a possible answer for the Blue Jays after Dylan Cease went on the 15-day injured list with a hamstring strain.
Buffalo’s three-man slate
Buffalo’s probable starters for the next three days are Van Eyk, Fleming and Voth beginning tomorrow. Dallas, who last pitched on May 20, is the notable omission from that group. For a club trying to cover innings without one of its major-league arms, that absence carries more weight than a routine Triple-A rotation shuffle.
Dallas has spent all season in Buffalo after returning from Tommy John surgery that kept him out in 2025. His current line there is a 4.50 ERA with 34 strikeouts in 32 innings, the sort of workload that usually tells a team whether a pitcher is ready to absorb a bigger role or still needs more time.
Cease leaves another gap
Cease was forced out of his last start on Sunday with a hamstring strain before going on the 15-day injured list. That injury leaves Toronto thinner at a spot that could not afford another hit, and it puts extra attention on the arms Buffalo is lining up this week.
Ricky Tiedemann was also mentioned as a possible depth option, but elbow soreness has kept him from throwing. That pushes the focus back to Dallas, who was drafted by the Blue Jays in the ’21 June Amateur Draft after two years at the University of Tennessee and is now the Triple-A pitcher most clearly tied to the open question in Toronto’s rotation.
Blue Jays depth chart pressure
The practical read for Toronto is straightforward: if the club needs a starter soon, Buffalo’s schedule offers the clearest clue to who is next in line. Dallas is the arm linked to that opening, but he is not on the mound for Buffalo across the next three days, and that leaves the organization sorting through the same small group of names while Cease is out.
For now, Van Eyk, Fleming and Voth are the scheduled Buffalo starters, and Dallas remains the pitcher whose status will draw the most attention the next time Toronto needs help. His last appearance came on May 20, so the gap since then may be the clearest sign that the Blue Jays are deciding whether he is ready to move or still stay parked in Triple-A.
