{"id":285180,"date":"2026-05-26T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:41:13","slug":"craig-kimbrel-signs-with-tampa-bay-rays-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285180\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Kimbrel signs with Tampa Bay Rays &#8211; WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tampa-bay-rays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> signed right-handed reliever Craig Kimbrel to a major league contract on Tuesday to shore up their bullpen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Rays placed right-hander Jesse Scholtens on the 15-day injured list with a right wrist strain to make room for Kimbrel on the active roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-york-mets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Mets<\/a> designated Kimbrel for assignment on Friday after the nine-time All-Star allowed 10 runs over 15 innings in 14 appearances. He signed a free agent contract with the team in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 37-year-old Kimbrel has 440 saves with 10 teams in his 17-year career. He won a World Series with Boston in 2018 and was the 2011 NL rookie of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Rays have the AL&#8217;s best record at 34-17, but their bullpen&#8217;s ERA of 4.40 is 21st in the majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays signed right-handed reliever Craig Kimbrel to a major league contract on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,121010,3823,121011,110,10921,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-285180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baseball","tag-craig-kimbrel-tampa-bay-rays","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-world-series","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}