{"id":281962,"date":"2025-11-14T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281962\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:07:07","slug":"rays-outright-brian-van-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281962\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Outright Brian Van Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rays announced that right-hander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vanbebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Van Belle<\/a> went unclaimed on waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Durham. Tampa Bay had designated him for assignment last week when cutting their roster down to 40.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TBTimes_Rays\/status\/1989044624502190456\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times<\/a> reports that Van Belle underwent elbow surgery that will cost him the entire 2026 season. The 29-year-old had finished the year on the injured list with what was initially diagnosed as elbow inflammation. That was apparently serious enough to necessitate surgery that\u2019ll prevent Van Belle from building off this year\u2019s brief MLB debut. The Miami product made four appearances after being acquired from the Reds as part of the three-team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/litteza01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zack Littell<\/a> deadline deal. He gave up five runs over 8 1\/3 innings while picking up his first win.<\/p>\n<p>Van Belle will remain in the farm system without occupying a 40-man roster spot next season. He could get a look in Spring Training in 2027. He\u2019s coming off a cumulative 3.17 ERA in 105 Triple-A innings between the Red Sox, Reds and Rays systems. Van Belle\u2019s fastball sits around 90 MPH, but he has a plus changeup and excellent control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays announced that right-hander\u00a0Brian Van Belle went unclaimed on waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A Durham. Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[128276,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brian-van-belle","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}