{"id":652297,"date":"2026-03-30T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652297\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:53:15","slug":"blue-jays-trade-24-year-old-to-marlins-after-not-making-roster-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/652297\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays Trade 24-Year-Old To Marlins After Not Making Roster: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The Toronto Blue Jays are trading 24-year-old Leo Jim\u00e9nez to the Miami Marlins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-agree-to-trade-leo-jimenez-to-marlins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per SportsNet&#8217;s Ben Nicholson-Smith<\/a>, just a few days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/mlb\/blue-jays-sever-ties-with-24-year-old-shortstop-report-11736501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designating<\/a> the young infielder for assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">&#8220;The Blue Jays and Marlins have agreed to a trade that will send recently designated infielder Leo Jimenez\u00a0to Miami, industry sources told Sportsnet,&#8221; Nicholson-Smith wrote Sunday. &#8220;Jimenez\u00a0was in contention to make the Blue Jays\u2019 opening-day roster until last week, but was designated for assignment when Davis Schneider earned the 13th and final position-player spot on the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">&#8220;While the Blue Jays liked what Jimenez had to offer enough to consider him seriously this spring, they also were impressed with the work of minor-league shortstop Josh Kasevich, who could be added to the 40-man roster if needed later in the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"11754295\" alt=\"\" caption=\"PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 27: Leo Jim\u00e9nez #49 of the Toronto Blue Jays runs the bases during the second inning of a spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Charlotte Sports Park on February 27, 2026 in Port Charlotte, Florida. (Photo by Mark Taylor\/Getty Images)\" credit=\"Mark Taylor\/Getty Images\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1201\" height=\"843\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Leo-Jimenez-2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Jim\u00e9nez appeared in 81 games for the Blue Jays across the past two seasons, slashing .207\/.303\/.332 with five home runs and 20 RBIs, but couldn&#8217;t get anything going at the plate last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">With no minor-league options left, Jim\u00e9nez had to be placed on waivers before being sent down to the minor leagues after being designated for assignment. Clearly, the Marlins liked what they saw from the young infielder. Francys Romero <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/francysromeroFR\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> that the Blue Jays will receive infielder Dub Gleed and $250K in international bonus pool money in exchange for Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Jim\u00e9nez had been on the roster bubble for Toronto this offseason, but after failing to make the roster, being traded to Miami offers him a fresh opportunity to get his career back on track. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">More MLB:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/yankees-slugger-receives-bold-prediction-despite-glaring-flaw-11754002\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Yankees Slugger Receives Bold Prediction Despite Glaring Flaw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays are trading 24-year-old Leo Jim\u00e9nez to the Miami Marlins, per SportsNet&#8217;s Ben Nicholson-Smith, just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,58,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-652297","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-miami-marlins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116317993014359683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652297","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=652297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}