{"id":645124,"date":"2026-05-03T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645124\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T13:30:10","slug":"former-blue-jays-1b-of-jimenez-elects-free-agency-after-clearing-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645124\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Blue Jays 1B\/OF Jim\u00e9nez elects free agency after clearing waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After being designated for assignment by 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>, Eloy Jim\u00e9nez has officially cleared waivers and elected to become a free agent on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old first baseman and outfielder posted a slash line of .290\/.343\/.290 with three runs batted in across 12 games for the Blue Jays this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A former top prospect of the <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>, Jimenez was initially recalled from the from Triple-A Buffalo when <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> was placed on the Injured List on April 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He signed a minor-league deal with Toronto before the start of spring training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being designated for assignment by the Toronto Blue Jays, Eloy Jim\u00e9nez has officially cleared waivers and elected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,227184,82,75156],"class_list":["post-645124","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-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645124","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=645124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}