{"id":330897,"date":"2025-12-07T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330897\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:30:07","slug":"outfielder-cedric-mullins-and-tampa-bay-rays-finalize-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330897\/","title":{"rendered":"Outfielder Cedric Mullins and Tampa Bay Rays finalize 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Outfielder Cedric Mullins and the Tampa Bay Rays have finalized a one-year contract that includes a mutual option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay designated right-hander Yoniel Curet for assignment to open a roster space for Mullins, whose agreement was announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A 31-year-old center fielder who bats left-handed, Mullins hit .216 with 17 homers and 59 RBIs in 133 games this year for Baltimore and the New York Mets, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mets-cedric-mullins-orioles-trade-deadline-ae8219f53cdfcd53e57e434d7cf54a4b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:acquired him at the July 31 trade deadline;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">acquired him at the July 31 trade deadline<\/a> for three minor league right-handers: Raimon G\u00f3mez, Anthony Nunez and Chandler Marsh. Mullins batted .182 with two homers and 10 RBIs in 42 games with the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Star in 2021, Mullins has a .247 average with 103 homers and 337 RBIs in eight major league seasons with the Orioles and Mets. He set career bests in 2021 with a .291 average, 30 homers and 30 stolen bases, driving in 59 runs. He had a career-high 74 RBIs in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Outfielder Cedric Mullins and the Tampa Bay Rays have finalized a one-year contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[123052,5462,49,48,4016,135049,462,475,82,28240,480],"class_list":{"0":"post-330897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-anthony-nunez","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-cedric-mullins","13":"tag-center-fielder","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330897","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=330897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}