{"id":677074,"date":"2026-04-16T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677074\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:24","slug":"blue-jays-eloy-jimenez-on-bench-for-second-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677074\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Eloy Jimenez: On bench for second straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TOR\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/314.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2167765\/jimenez\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimenez<\/a> is out of the lineup for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>After being called up from Triple-A Buffalo on Sunday for his first big-league action since 2024, Jimenez served as Toronto&#8217;s designated hitter in the team&#8217;s ensuing two games and went 2-for-7 with a walk. Following the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TOR\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jays<\/a>&#8216; acquisition of Lenyn Sosa from the White Sox earlier in the week, however, Jimenez will now hit the bench for the second straight game. Even with George Springer&#8217;s (toe) recent move to the injured list leaving a regular lineup spot open, the Blue Jays may be content to rotate a number of players at DH rather than leaning exclusively on Jimenez.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimenez is out of the lineup for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Brewers. After being called up from Triple-A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,7918,28,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-677074","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-eloy-jimenez","12":"tag-fantasy-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116415670851363089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677074","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=677074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}