{"id":599736,"date":"2026-04-12T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:48:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-place-george-springer-on-injured-list-recall-eloy-jimenez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599736\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays place George Springer on injured list, recall Eloy Jimenez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> have placed outfielder\/DH <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-springer\/526414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-springer\/526414\" target=\"_blank\">George Springer<\/a> on the 10-day injured list and recalled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/eloy-jimenez\/830373\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/eloy-jimenez\/830373\" target=\"_blank\">Eloy Jimenez<\/a> from the Buffalo Bisons, the team announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jimenez will be active for Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer fractured his big toe after fouling a ball off his left foot in Saturday\u2019s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matheson adds that this could be close to a minimum stay on the injured list for Sprigner, who may have tried to play through the injury if it were later in the year. However, the club will not push the issue and will let Springer heal before returning to the field.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News: George Springer to the IL with a left big toe fracture <\/p>\n<p>Eloy Jimenez has been recalled. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueJays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BlueJays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keegan Matheson (@KeeganMatheson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeeganMatheson\/status\/2043346351849705665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jimenez, 29, is slashing .257\/.372\/.744 in 11 games with Triple-A this season with one home run, five RBI and four runs scored. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-white-sox\/228\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-white-sox\/228\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> slugger has amassed 95 home runs, 298 RBI and a .269\/.318\/.780 slash line in 534 MLB games with the White Sox and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He joined the organization as a free agent in August of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer, 36, was hitting .185 with two homers and six RBI through 14 games this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springer is now the 10th Blue Jays player on the IL, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/alejandro-kirk\/1071614\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/alejandro-kirk\/1071614\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Kirk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/addison-barger\/1118908\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/addison-barger\/1118908\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Barger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/trey-yesavage\/1519320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/trey-yesavage\/1519320\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Yesavage<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jose-berrios\/657852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jose-berrios\/657852\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Berrios<\/a>, among others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jays sit fourth in the AL East with a 6-8 record and have dropped seven of their past nine games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays have placed outfielder\/DH George Springer on the 10-day injured list and recalled Eloy Jimenez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,227184,106313,82],"class_list":["post-599736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eloy-jimenez-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-830373","tag-george-springer-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-526414","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599736","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=599736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}