{"id":361906,"date":"2026-08-03T21:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:56:11","slug":"rays-make-deadline-day-swap-acquire-catcher-liam-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361906\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays make deadline day swap, acquire catcher Liam Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays have made another move right before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

The Rays announced Monday that they have acquired Miami Marlins catcher Liam Hicks.<\/p>\n

Hicks, 27, is in his second year in the majors.<\/p>\n

He is batting .282 this year, with 14 homers and 62 RBI. He is known as a contact hitter who can also play a little first base.<\/p>\n

The Rays are sending three players to Miami to complete the deal:\u00a0right-handed pitcher Jacob Kisting, infielder Adrian Santana, and infielder Brayden Taylor.<\/p>\n

ESPN is also reporting that the Rays picked up veteran relief pitcher Tyler Wells<\/a> from the Baltimore Orioles. Wells, a right-hander, has a 2.67 ERA in 43 games this season.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball teams have until 6 p.m. Monday to make a trade for a player who could then be eligible for the postseason.<\/p>\n

The acquisition of Hicks came one day after the team traded for starting pitcher Freddy Peralta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They got him from the Mets in exchange for three prospects.<\/p>\n

The Rays entered play Monday 2.5 games ahead of the New York Yankees for first place in the American League East. They start a series at the Colorado Rockies tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays have made another move right before the trade deadline. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1242,1238,28,2200,115,139,275,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815,2032],"class_list":["post-361906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-florida","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361906","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=361906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}