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Jesse Rogers, ESPN Employees Author
Former Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles slugger Eloy Jimenez is in settlement on a minor league cope with the Tampa Bay Rays, sources inform ESPN.
Jimenez, 28, is coming off one other injury-plagued 12 months through which he performed in 98 video games break up between Chicago and Baltimore after spending the primary 5.5 years with the White Sox. He hit a mixed .238 with simply six residence runs in 324 at-bats final season.
General, Jimenez has 95 profession residence runs in 534 video games however hasn’t performed in additional than 122 video games in a season because of harm. That profession excessive in video games performed got here in 2019. Since then, he is appeared in additional than 100 video games simply as soon as.
Jimenez has immense energy — he hit 31 residence runs his rookie season — and might be given an opportunity to rebound from a number of down years because the Rays completed twenty eighth in residence runs final season after buying and selling away sluggers Isaac Parades and Randy Arozarena.