Charles McAdoo joined the Blue Jays on August 10, 2026, when the club optioned Davis Schneider in a roster swap and selected McAdoo for the active roster. The move came the same day the Blue Jays added right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson and shuffled several other roster spots.
The transaction paired McAdoo’s arrival with a broader set of moves that changed the club’s position-player mix and pitching depth at the same time. The Blue Jays had gone to extra innings in four of their past five contests, including 12 innings against the Phils on August 9, which had left Lazaro Estrada needing to pitch for a third day in a row.
Blue Jays roster moves
Simeon Woods Richardson was selected back to the roster after being outrighted at the end of June. He had thrown 24 1/3 Triple-A innings over six appearances with a 4.07 earned run average, an 8.7% walk rate and a 19.4% strikeout rate. In the big leagues in 2026, he had a 6.40 ERA.
That pitching move came alongside the swap that brought McAdoo up and sent Schneider out of the active group. For a club that had been leaning on its bullpen, the day’s transactions gave the Blue Jays another arm while also opening a position-player spot for McAdoo.
Willie MacIver opening
Willie MacIver was designated for assignment to open a 40-man spot. In Triple-A since being acquired from the Rangers in April, he hit.270/.344/.459 for a 110 wRC+ but struck out in 28.1% of his plate appearances. He had also gotten into 33 games with the Athletics last year and hit.186/.252/.324.
Rudy Martin Jr. was outrighted to Triple-A after being designated for assignment last week. That left the Blue Jays with a set of same-day moves that reached both the active roster and the 40-man roster, with McAdoo the player brought in through the Schneider swap.
Charles McAdoo timeline
The practical question for McAdoo is not the transaction itself but the length of the stay. The move gives him a roster spot now, yet the available facts do not set a term for how long he will remain with the Blue Jays, so his role will have to be read from the next round of lineup decisions and corresponding roster moves.
For Schneider, the result was immediate: he lost his place in the active group to McAdoo. For McAdoo, it was a chance to join a roster that had been reshaped by fatigue, extra innings and the need to cover multiple spots on the same day.
