{"id":569807,"date":"2026-03-30T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:04:09","slug":"blue-jays-trade-leo-jimenez-to-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569807\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays trade Leo Jimenez to Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Blue Jays are sending recently designated infielder Leo Jimenez\u00a0to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/miami-marlins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"miami-marlins\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Marlins<\/a> after completing a trade Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays acquired minor-league infielder Dub Gleed and international bonus money from the Marlins in the deal, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez\u00a0was in contention to make the Blue Jays\u2019 opening-day roster until last week, but was designated for assignment when Davis Schneider earned the 13th and final position-player spot on the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the Blue Jays liked what Jimenez had to offer enough to consider him seriously this spring, they also were impressed with the work of minor-league shortstop Josh Kasevich, who could be added to the 40-man roster if needed later in the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Jimenez has appeared in 81 career games with the Blue Jays, hitting .207 with five home runs and a .635 OPS while playing shortstop and second base.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s out of minor-league options, which meant he had to be\u00a0placed\u00a0on waivers before being sent to the minors. Evidently the\u00a0Marlins\u00a0liked what they saw enough to want to jump the waiver queue and make a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 The Blue Jays are sending recently designated infielder Leo Jimenez\u00a0to the Miami Marlins after completing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-569807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}