{"id":65380,"date":"2025-08-13T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/65380\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:38:11","slug":"blue-jays-to-designate-buddy-kennedy-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/65380\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays To Designate Buddy Kennedy For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays are activating infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gimenan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez<\/a> from the 10-day injured list, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArdenZwelling\/status\/1955359928677437512\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arden Zwelling of Sportsnet<\/a>. In a corresponding move, infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kennebu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buddy Kennedy<\/a> will be designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy was selected to Toronto\u2019s roster a week ago. It seemed likely to be a short stay. He was hitting just .207\/.309\/.259 for Triple-A Buffalo at the time he was called up. His selection was less about his performance and more about the specific roster needs.<\/p>\n<p>The Jays went with a temporary three-catcher setup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanchal04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ali S\u00e1nchez<\/a> was selected to the roster when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kirkal01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alejandro Kirk<\/a> landed on the concussion injured list. When Kirk was ready to return, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/heinety01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Heineman<\/a> was also banged up after taking a foul ball to the mask. They decided to keep all three for a few days, just to be safe, which meant bench infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jimenle01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leo Jim\u00e9nez<\/a> had to be optioned out as the corresponding move for Kirk\u2019s activation.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, the Jays were comfortable enough with the health of Kirk and Heineman to bring back another bench infielder. Jim\u00e9nez had not yet been optioned for the 10-day minimum, so he couldn\u2019t be recalled. Gim\u00e9nez was still not ready to come off the IL but was beginning a rehab assignment. Kennedy got the roster spot while Gim\u00e9nez got into game shape. The Jays sent Kennedy to the plate 6 times and he got a hit and a walk, but he\u2019s now been squeezed out.<\/p>\n<p>Since Kennedy is out of options, he had to be removed from the 40-man. With the trade deadline having passed, the Jays will have to put him on waivers. He was passed through waivers unclaimed just over a month ago, after being designated for assignment by the Phillies, and could do so again.<\/p>\n<p>He now has a .193\/.288\/.300 line in 163 big league appearances. His Triple-A work is better, with a .284\/.395\/.443 line and 118 wRC+ dating back to the start of 2023. However, his out-of-options status makes it hard for him to hold a roster spot for very long. If he clears waivers again, he\u2019ll have to right to elect free agency since he has a previous career outright.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Kiyoshi Mio, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays are activating infielder Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez from the 10-day injured list, reports Arden Zwelling of Sportsnet.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41733,33134,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-65380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andres-gimenez","9":"tag-buddy-kennedy","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65380","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=65380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}