{"id":103235,"date":"2026-01-13T04:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/eloy-jimenez-signs-with-blue-jays-minor-league-contract-and-mlb-challenge\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:58:06","slug":"eloy-jimenez-signs-with-blue-jays-minor-league-contract-and-mlb-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/eloy-jimenez-signs-with-blue-jays-minor-league-contract-and-mlb-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloy Jim\u00e9nez Signs with Blue Jays: Minor League Contract and MLB Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Eloy Jim\u00e9nez near the Toronto Blue Jays<\/h2>\n\nThe Toronto Blue Jays are reportedly close to adding Dominican hitter Eloy Jim\u00e9nez through a minor league contract, which includes an invitation to the major league team&#8217;s Spring Training, according to multiple reports. However, the club has not yet officially confirmed the agreement.\n\nJim\u00e9nez, 29, seeks to relaunch his career after spending the entire 2025 season in the minor leagues, where he hit three home runs and recorded an OPS of .673 in 54 games. The hitter started last year in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, was released in July and then signed with Toronto in September, participating in six games with Triple-A Buffalo before finishing the campaign.\n\nSince October, the slugger has been active in the Dominican League with the Toros del Este, seeking to stay in competitive rhythm for a new opportunity in organized baseball.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Competition for the Designated Position<\/h2>\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 options for the designated hitter role, so the Dominican will have to stand out during the preseason to secure his place.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Talent Seeking Resurgence<\/h2>\n\n\nJim\u00e9nez was one of the most valued prospects in baseball before his debut in 2019 with the Chicago White Sox, an organization that signed him to a six-year, $43 million contract, a few days before he made it to the Major Leagues.\n\nIn his early campaigns he demonstrated his power: he connected 31 home runs with an OPS of .828 as a rookie and then recorded an .891 OPS in the shortened 2020 season. However, injuries marked the rest of his time in Chicago, which culminated in a trade to the Baltimore Orioles in July 2024.\n\nIn six seasons in MLB, Jim\u00e9nez has 95 home runs, 298 RBIs, and a .780 OPS in 534 games, although in 2024 his performance dropped to a .626 OPS in 98 combined games between the White Sox and the Orioles.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eloy Jim\u00e9nez near the Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are reportedly close to adding Dominican hitter Eloy Jim\u00e9nez through a minor league contract, which includes an invitation to the major league team&#8217;s Spring Training, according to multiple reports. However, the club has not yet officially confirmed the agreement. Jim\u00e9nez, 29, seeks to relaunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[5192,9999,11377,2723],"class_list":{"0":"post-103235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-batter","9":"tag-eloy-jimenez","10":"tag-minor-leagues","11":"tag-tiles"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}