{"id":651544,"date":"2026-03-30T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:04:20","slug":"marlins-acquire-leo-jimenez-from-toronto-blue-jays-miami-marlins-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651544\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins acquire Leo Jim\u00e9nez from Toronto Blue Jays &#8211; Miami Marlins Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHours after the Miami Marlins completed a series sweep of the Colorado Rockies, president of baseball operations Peter Bendix went right to work adding to his roster. The club announced on Sunday night that they&#8217;ve acquired infielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jimenle01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=fishonfirst.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-29_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Jim\u00e9nez<\/a>\u00a0from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for infield prospect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=gleed-000dub&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=fishonfirst.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-29_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dub Gleed<\/a>\u00a0and $250k in international bonus pool money. Francys Romero was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/francysromeroFR\/status\/2038385089956937909?s=20\" rel=\"external nofollow\">first to report<\/a> the full transaction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJim\u00e9nez, 24, played a total of 26 games during the 2025 minor league season where across three levels, he slashed .296\/.404\/.370\/.774 with seven RBI and a 122 wRC+. He also saw 18 games at the big league level, but struggled, posting a -19 wRC+.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJim\u00e9nez had a longer run in the majors in 2024, where in 63 games he slashed .229\/.329\/.358\/.686 with four home runs, 19 RBI and a 101 wRC+.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 24-year-old right-handed hitter is a glove-first player. He spent most of his minor league career at shortstop, but also has played second base. The Blue Jays designated Jim\u00e9nez for assignment prior to Opening Day because he is out of minor league options.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs for Gleed, the Marlins selected him in the ninth round of the 2024 MLB Draft. In his first full professional season, he slashed .252\/.391\/.347\/.737 with two home runs, 26 RBI and a 124 wRC+ with nearly as many walks (43) as strikeouts (48). Recently highlighted on <a href=\"https:\/\/fishonfirst.com\/news-rumors\/miami-marlins-podcasts\/prospects-projections-hitters-unfiltered-93\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an episode of Fish Unfiltered<\/a>, he was set to begin this season with Double-A Pensacola.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo clear a 40-man roster spot for Jim\u00e9nez, the Marlins DFA&#8217;d right-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/actonga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=fishonfirst.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-29_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Acton<\/a>. He made his organizational debut on Friday, working a scoreless inning for Triple-A Jacksonville.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Marlins will still need to make a corresponding 26-man move prior to Monday&#8217;s game.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishonfirst.com\/news-rumors\/miami-marlins\/trade-roster-moves-leo-jimenez-blue-jays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours after the Miami Marlins completed a series sweep of the Colorado Rockies, president of baseball operations Peter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,17449,47002,22104,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-651544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-dub-gleed","12":"tag-garrett-acton","13":"tag-leo-jimenez","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651544","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=651544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}