{"id":402286,"date":"2026-01-12T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402286\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:03:07","slug":"blue-jays-re-sign-eloy-jimenez-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402286\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Re-Sign Eloy Jimenez To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jays have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jimenel02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eloy Jimenez<\/a> to a minor league contract, according to reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikedeportes\/status\/2010489848319144330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mike Rodriguez<\/a>.\u00a0 Jimenez\u2019s latest deal with the Jays includes an invitation to Toronto\u2019s Major League spring camp.<\/p>\n<p>After signing a minors deal with Toronto right at the end of August, Jimenez only got into six games with Triple-A Buffalo, and he had a .508 OPS over 21 trips to the plate.\u00a0 This gave Jimenez an overall .247\/.326\/.347 slash line in 215 plate appearances in the Jays\u2019 and Rays\u2019 farm systems, without any games played at the Major League level.<\/p>\n<p>Once a feared power bat who signed a six-year, $43MM deal with the White Sox before ever appearing in a big league game, Jimenez somewhat lived up to that potential by hitting .275\/.324\/.487 with 89 homers over 1777 PA during the 2019-23 seasons.\u00a0 However, Jimenez was set back by a laundry list of injuries, and his 122 games played in 2019 remains his highest game total in a regulation-length season.\u00a0 The 2024 season was a total calamity for Jimenez, as he hit .238\/.289\/.336 over 349 PA while missing time with an adductor strain and a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox gave up on Jimenez by dealing him to the Orioles at the 2024 trade deadline, and Baltimore unsurprisingly declined a $16.5MM club option on the former slugger for the 2025 season.\u00a0 Jimenez then landed in Tampa Bay last winter on a minors deal, but between more injury woes and his uninspiring numbers, the Rays released him last July.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez is still only 29 years old, and is still posting decent hard-hit ball numbers and exit velocities.\u00a0 Considering his past history, there\u2019s no risk for the Blue Jays in taking a more extended look at Jimenez in camp to see if a late-career turn-around is possible, even if it doesn\u2019t seem likely Jimenez will be able to crack Toronto\u2019s crowded roster.\u00a0 His best-case scenario might be a big Spring Training performance, and then heading to another interested team via trade or an opt-out in his contract at the end of camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays have signed Eloy Jimenez to a minor league contract, according to reporter Mike Rodriguez.\u00a0 Jimenez\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[194128,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-402286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-eloy-jimenez","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}