{"id":285571,"date":"2026-05-27T02:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285571\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:17:29","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-sign-veteran-reliever-craig-kimbrel-to-shore-up-bullpen-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285571\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays sign veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel to shore up bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have signed right-handed reliever Craig Kimbrel to a major league contract in hopes of shoring up their bullpen. The Rays placed right-hander&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla.(AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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>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&#8217;s best record at 34-17, but their bullpen&#8217;s ERA of 4.40 is 21st in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays have signed right-handed reliever Craig Kimbrel to a major league contract in hopes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-285571","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\/285571","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=285571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}