{"id":331042,"date":"2025-12-07T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:10:07","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-of-cedric-mullins-finalize-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331042\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays, OF Cedric Mullins finalize 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8212; Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35578\/cedric-mullins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cedric Mullins<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> have finalized a one-year contract that includes a mutual option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay designated right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5185124\/yoniel-curet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yoniel Curet<\/a> for assignment to open a roster space for Mullins, whose agreement was announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47190269\/2025-mlb-30-teams-stock-watch-winter-meetings-work-do-2026-forecast\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/1203\/r1584338_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45871191\/sources-mets-acquire-cedric-mullins-trade-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired him at the July 31 trade deadline<\/a> for three minor league right-handers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5194674\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raimon G\u00f3mez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5275196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Nunez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4923384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chandler Marsh<\/a>. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8212; Outfielder Cedric Mullins and the Tampa Bay Rays have finalized a one-year contract that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-331042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331042","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=331042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}