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Blue Jays: Examining the highs and lows of Andrés Giménez’s season
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Jun 2, 2026, 14:30 EDTUpdated: Jun 2, 2026, 13:31 EDT
The Toronto Blue Jays’ offence has faltered through much of the 2026 regular season, but one of the more intriguing players has been shortstop Andrés Giménez.
Giménez has appeared in 57 games with the Blue Jays this season, the fourth most on the club’s roster. The 27-year-old is batting .216 with six home runs and 28 RBIs while reaching base at a .260 clip, and adding in six stolen bases.
Looking at Giménez’s numbers, the average and on-base don’t look good, but both Giménez’s home run total and RBI total place him in second among all Blue Jays to this point in the season. Giménez’s early ability to drive in runs and hit for some power has helped the Blue Jays weather injuries to both Alejandro Kirk and Addison Barger, as well as a Vladimir Guerrero Jr. power slump to begin the year.
Just like last season, Giménez got off to a blistering start in March. Last year, Giménez hit .333 with three home runs and five RBIs over five games, compared to this year’s first five games in the month of March, in which Giménez batted .444 with one home run and five RBI’s.
While Giménez cooled off in April last year, highlighted by a .132 average, he kept the production coming this time around, batting .230 with two home runs and 11 RBIs, consistently providing offence as many of the Blue Jays’ regulars got off to slow starts.
Once the calendar flipped to May, Giménez’s average fell off a cliff, but the power input remained the same. Giménez hit three home runs and drove in 12 but slumped to a .153 average. The final stretch was outright ugly; Giménez only mustered a 5-for-43 stretch – a .116 average – over the Blue Jays’ final 15 games in May.
Giménez’s underlying metrics are also a concerning sign that he may not see great improvement as the season goes on. Giménez has an average exit velocity of 85.4, placing him in the bottom five percent of all MLB hitters, and a 22.9 hard hit percentage, which puts the shortstop in the bottom two percent of all players.
On the defensive side of the ball, Giménez continues to prove why the Blue Jays thought so highly of the three-time Gold Glove winner. Giménez holds a 5 Fielding Run Value, which ranks in the 92nd percentile, as well as 5 Outs Above Average, which is in the 96th percentile.
While the Blue Jays’ offence doesn’t need Giménez to be a star, finding a happy medium between his hot start and ice-cold May could be a big factor in the lineup becoming tougher to work through for opposing pitchers.
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