{"id":169870,"date":"2025-07-12T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/169870\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:40:09","slug":"rays-release-eloy-jimenez-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/169870\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Release Eloy Jimenez – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rays released\u00a0Eloy Jim\u00e9nez<\/a> from his minor league contract, reports<\/a> Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times. Jim\u00e9nez had been on the Triple-A injured list for the past 10 days.<\/p>\n

This was the second IL stint of the season for the former Silver Slugger award winner. Jim\u00e9nez appeared in 40 games with Tampa Bay\u2019s 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. Jim\u00e9nez\u2019s career has been a on a sharp decline since he hit .295 with 16 homers in 84 games for Chicago back in 2022.<\/p>\n

After a league average offensive showing in \u201923, Jim\u00e9nez was batting .240\/.297\/.345 at last summer\u2019s deadline. The Sox needed to eat some money to ship him to the Orioles. The change of scenery did not turn things around. Jim\u00e9nez hit .232 with a .270 on-base percentage and one homer in 33 games with Baltimore. The O\u2019s bought him out and he was limited to minor league offers over the winter. He\u2019ll very likely need to settle for another minor league contract if he stays in affiliated ball. Speculatively, Jim\u00e9nez could be a target for teams in a foreign league like NPB or the KBO as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays released\u00a0Eloy Jim\u00e9nez from his minor league contract, reports Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times. Jim\u00e9nez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,7918,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-169870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-eloy-jimenez","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rays","12":"tag-tampa-bay","13":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114838426415876242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}