Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement has had a successful start to his career in Major League Baseball. Playing in his sixth season in the majors, Clement has put up a career slash line of .261/.295/.376 with an OPS of .671, totaling 25 home runs and 129 RBIs in 444 games.
Clement was selected in the fourth round of the 2017 MLB Draft by the Cleveland Indians and made his big-league debut with them in 2021. In 2023, he signed as a free agent with the Blue Jays and has been with the team since.
He became an everyday starter for Toronto over the past two seasons and his fame rose during the Blue Jays' run to an American League pennant in 2025.
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Clement played all 18 games during last year's playoffs, batting an incredible .411 with a .977 OPS, totaling 30 hits, which was the most in a single postseason in MLB history.
So far this season, Toronto is 4-6, and Clement has played all 10 games. He has hit .293 with a .659 OPS, three doubles and three runs driven in. He also has a .974 fielding percentage, as he has made just one error so far this year.
On Tuesday, before the Blue Jays take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the second game of their series, Clement shared an off-field update on his Instagram. In a collaborative post with PlayStation Canada, Clement took the viewer through his career as portrayed by the fictional Bernie Cement in MLB: The Show 26.
This showed a little bit of an outlook on the personal side of Clement's journey to becoming a star with the Blue Jays.
He and Toronto are back in action on Tuesday at 7:07 p.m. ET against the Dodgers at Rogers Centre. The game will be live on TBS.
