{"id":834745,"date":"2026-07-31T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:40:08","slug":"giants-open-to-covering-robbie-rays-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834745\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Open To Covering Robbie Ray’s Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants are all but guaranteed to move the impending free agent trio of\u00a0Luis Arraez<\/a>,\u00a0Robbie Ray<\/a> and\u00a0Tyler Mahle<\/a> within the next four days. They\u2019d surely flip reliever JT Brubaker<\/a> if they can drum up interest. Arraez and Ray are their most notable rental trade chips, though finding a taker for the latter is complicated by his outsized $25MM salary.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s around $8MM remaining on that contract through season\u2019s end. That\u2019ll drop slightly to approximately $7.4MM after Monday\u2019s deadline. That\u2019s a fairly hefty sum for two months of a mid-rotation arm. Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a> reports that the Giants have signaled to other teams they\u2019re willing to pay down some of the salary to facilitate a trade.<\/p>\n

That would help the Giants fetch a slightly better prospect return than if their sole focus was on offloading the money. Ray has a strong 3.16 ERA across 116 2\/3 innings over 21 appearances. His underlying marks aren\u2019t as impressive, as he\u2019s striking out a slightly below-average 20.4% of opponents against an elevated 11.4% walk rate. The free passes are nothing new. Ray has typically offset the walks with plus swing-and-miss stuff, but this year\u2019s strikeout and whiff rates are his lowest in a decade.<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t prevented Ray from being effective. He has continued to get good results of late, turning in a 1.67 ERA over his last nine appearances. The elevated pitch counts keep him from consistently working deep into games, though, and he hasn\u2019t done well when seeing an opposing lineup for a third time.<\/p>\n

Even if Ray\u2019s Cy Young days are behind him, he\u2019d fit into the third or fourth rotation spot for a lot of contenders. A team trading for him would probably view him as a playoff starter, though they\u2019d need to prepare for a potential quick hook in October. There\u2019s no reason for the Giants to hold him, as he\u2019s ineligible for a qualifying offer. Ray is scheduled to start tonight\u2019s series opener in San Diego in what\u2019d almost certainly be his final appearance with the team.<\/p>\n

In other Giants deadline news, Passan writes that they\u2019re expected to hold right fielder\u00a0Jung\u00a0Hoo Lee<\/a> but could dangle\u00a0Heliot Ramos<\/a>. The latter should get interest given the heavy demand<\/a> around the league for right-handed outfield bats. Lee is signed for three years and $63MM after this season, though he can opt out after next year. It would\u2019ve made sense for the Giants to gauge interest, but the contract might\u2019ve prevented them from commanding a substantial return for one of their more reliable offensive players. Lee\u2019s bat has cooled in July but he\u2019s still hitting .302\/.335\/.434 with six homers over 394 plate appearances on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants are all but guaranteed to move the impending free agent trio of\u00a0Luis Arraez,\u00a0Robbie Ray and\u00a0Tyler Mahle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,104076,232290,591,210854,85],"class_list":["post-834745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-heliot-ramos","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-mlb","tag-robbie-ray","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}