{"id":497487,"date":"2026-01-12T20:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/eloy-jimenez-agrees-to-minor-league-contract-with-the-toronto-blue-jays\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:02:29","slug":"eloy-jimenez-agrees-to-minor-league-contract-with-the-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/eloy-jimenez-agrees-to-minor-league-contract-with-the-toronto-blue-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloy Jim\u00e9nez agrees to minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TORONTO.\u2013<\/strong> The Toronto Blue Jays<\/strong> are reportedly close to signing Dominican hitter Eloy Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> to a minor league contract<\/strong>, which includes an invitation to the Major League team’s Spring Training<\/strong>, according to multiple reports, although the club has not yet officially confirmed the agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>:Cubs and Alex Bregman agree for five years and US$175 million<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nJim\u00e9nez, 29 years old<\/strong>, is trying to relaunch his career after spending the entire 2025 season in the minor leagues<\/strong>, where he hit three home runs<\/strong> and recorded an OPS of .673 in 54 games<\/strong>. The slugger started last year in the Tampa Bay Rays<\/strong> organization, was released in July and subsequently signed with Toronto in September, seeing action in six games with Triple-A Buffalo<\/strong> before concluding the campaign.\n\nSince October, the slugger has been active in the Dominican League<\/strong> with the Toros del Este<\/strong>, seeking to stay in competitive rhythm for a new opportunity in organized baseball.\n\n\n

Competition for the designated position<\/h3>\n\n\nAlthough Jim\u00e9nez will be able to compete for a spot on the Opening Day roster, his path will not be easy. Toronto has several alternatives for the role of designated hitter<\/strong>, so the Dominican will have to stand out during the preseason to secure his permanence.\n\n\n

A Talent Seeking to Resurface<\/h3>\n\n\nJim\u00e9nez was one of the most sought-after baseball prospects before his debut in 2019<\/strong> with the Chicago White Sox<\/strong>, an organization that signed him to a six-year, US$43 million<\/strong> contract just days before he made it to the Major Leagues.\n\nIn his early campaigns, he showed all his power: he connected 31 home runs with an OPS of .828<\/strong> as a rookie and then recorded .891 OPS<\/strong> in the shortened 2020<\/strong> season. However, injuries marked the rest of his time in Chicago, which culminated in a trade to the Baltimore Orioles<\/strong> in July 2024<\/strong>.\n\nIn six seasons in MLB<\/strong>, Jim\u00e9nez has 95 home runs, 298 RBIs, and an OPS of .780<\/strong> in 534 games<\/strong>, although in 2024 his performance dropped to .626 OPS<\/strong> in 98 combined games between the White Sox and the Orioles.\n\n\n

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TORONTO.\u2013 The Toronto Blue Jays are reportedly close to signing Dominican hitter Eloy Jim\u00e9nez to a minor league contract, which includes an invitation to the Major League team’s Spring Training, according to multiple reports, although the club has not yet officially confirmed the agreement. You may be interested in:Cubs and Alex Bregman agree for five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":["post-497487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25pZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}