The Rays released Eloy Jiménez from his minor league contract, reports Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times. Jiménez had been on the Triple-A injured list for the past 10 days.
This was the second IL stint of the season for the former Silver Slugger award winner. Jiménez appeared in 40 games with Tampa Bay’s top affiliate. He hit .278/.335/.397 and only managed three home runs across 167 plate appearances. His 43.5% hard contact rate is a little above the MLB average but not close to the huge exit velocities he posted during his best seasons with the White Sox. Jiménez’s career has been a on a sharp decline since he hit .295 with 16 homers in 84 games for Chicago back in 2022.
After a league average offensive showing in ’23, Jiménez was batting .240/.297/.345 at last summer’s deadline. The Sox needed to eat some money to ship him to the Orioles. The change of scenery did not turn things around. Jiménez hit .232 with a .270 on-base percentage and one homer in 33 games with Baltimore. The O’s bought him out and he was limited to minor league offers over the winter. He’ll very likely need to settle for another minor league contract if he stays in affiliated ball. Speculatively, Jiménez could be a target for teams in a foreign league like NPB or the KBO as well.
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Biggest move in baseball history tbh
Why the sarcasm lol
Its crazy how fast Eloy fell off
Wonder if KBO ir NPB can help him
Like they’ve done for a few players
KBO bound?
Crazy that his power has disappeared. He probably needs a trip overseas.
He needs a few trips to the gym.
Another White Sox player of what-could-have-been. What a waste.
Meanwhile, KC trotted out three sub .190 hitters in tonight’s loss to the Mets. I’d call Eloy’s agent, have him come in for a workout, and get him in uni as soon as the ASB is over if there’s a shred of anything left.
Nope. Nothing left.
Unmitigated disaster!
Could see AJ giving him a call.
No way. Another delusional fan. Lol
Mr. Glass
How many of the guys who got locked up early say in the last 10 years have worked out?
If I’m a gm I go year to year and get the 6 best years out of these guys and let them go to free agency or trade them away the last year of control.
Congratulations, you’ve just reverse engineered the job description for Tampa Bay’s POBO
Acereros de Monclova calling ……
Time for a trip to the Mexican Baseball League…
Only 27 should get another shot.
Eloy is 28… he’ll get another minor league deal
Honestly what happened in Chicago?
Tim Anderson, batting champion to trash
Louis Robert can’t hit a beach ball
Benny is terrible
Abreu went from MVP caliber to DFA in Houston
Grossman league average to trash
Pollock 3 WAR player to trash
Grandal couldn’t hit in Chicago
Eloy forgot how to hit.
Burger caught the Chicago curse after leaving as well
It just seems crazy to me that some good players went to the White Sox and completely stopped hitting. Young highly regarded prospects that had some success stopped hitting as well. What are the odds? And meanwhile no free agent, prospect, reclamation went to Chicago and had success. The only player who hasn’t became completely terrible is Tauchman