Blue Jays to unveil Joe Carter statue in July

The Toronto Blue Jays will unveil a Joe Carter statue outside Rogers Centre on July 18.

February 3, 2026

By Kevin Glew

Canadian Baseball Network

As part of its 50th season anniversary celebrations, the Toronto Blue Jays will unveil a Joe Carter statue outside Rogers Centre on July 18 to commemorate the club’s back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993.

The team made the announcement in a video on social media on Monday.

In the video (below), a camera follows Carter through the Blue Jays’ offices to a boardroom where he finds Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro and president emeritus Paul Beeston who share the news with him.

“My teammates from ’92 and ’93 are a special group, and we all understood what it meant to play for an entire country,” said Carter in a news release. “We felt such pride wearing the maple leaf on our uniforms. Fans embraced us, and we loved them right back. This statue is for the fans.”

The statue will be erected in the Gate 5 and 6 area outside the Rogers Centre. Mike Wilner, of the Toronto Star, reported on Monday that the statue of the late Ted Rogers currently in that area will be moved to the Rogers’ corporate offices.

Blue Jays fans have been clamoring for a statue to commemorate Carter’s 1993 walk-off, World Series-winning home run off Philadelphia Phillies closer Mitch Williams for decades. Any longtime Blue Jays fan (40 or older) can tell you exactly where they were when Carter belted that homer.

The statue will be the first of a Blue Jays player. By my research, there are just five MLB teams that don’t have any player statues outside their stadiums: the Blue Jays, the A’s (who are in the process of moving), the Angels, the Marlins and the Rockies.

The Rockies, however, will be unveiling statues of Hall of Famers Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, B.C.) and Todd Helton this summer.

The Carter statue will not be the first of a baseball player outside a major league stadium in Canada. There’s a statue of Jackie Robinson outside of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium as a tribute to his trailblazing 1946 season with the Montreal Royals.

Just two kilometers east of the Rogers Centre, the Toronto Maple Leafs have 14 player statues as part of their Legends Row outside of Scotiabank Arena.