{"id":361843,"date":"2026-08-03T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361843\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:26:13","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-acquire-c-liam-hicks-from-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361843\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays acquire C Liam Hicks from Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> have acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/liam-hicks\/1318265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/liam-hicks\/1318265\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Hicks<\/a> in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> per ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hicks, 27, is slashing .282\/.363\/.432 with 14 home runs and 62 RBI in 101 games with the Marlins in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hicks made his MLB debut in 2025 with the Marlins. The Toronto native represented Canada at the World Baseball Classic earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is primarily a catcher, but has also spent time as a first baseman and a designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> are first in the American League with a 65-46 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Marlins sit 1.5 games back of the final National League Wild Card spot with a 58-55 record. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays have acquire Liam Hicks in a trade with the Miami Marlins per ESPN\u2019s Jeff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1623,147247,147246,135,137,136,48399],"class_list":["post-361843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-apple-news","tag-liam-hicks-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1318265","tag-miami-marlins-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-252","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-bay-rays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-254"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361843","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=361843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}