{"id":285556,"date":"2026-05-27T02:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:05:15","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-sign-veteran-reliever-craig-kimbrel-to-shore-up-bullpen-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285556\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays sign veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel to shore up bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The  signed right-handed reliever Craig Kimbrel to a major league contract on Tuesday to shore up their bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>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>The  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>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>The Rays have the AL\u2019s best record at 34-17, but their bullpen\u2019s ERA of 4.40 is 21st in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The signed right-handed reliever Craig Kimbrel to a major league contract on Tuesday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-285556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285556","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=285556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}