The Rays closed out the trade deadline by dealing catcher Hunter Feduccia, who was displaced on the depth chart by the acquisition of C\/1B Liam Hicks, alongside 2024 fourth rounder RHP Jacob Kmatz \u2014 a relief prospect \u2014 for left handed hitting OF Jack Suwinski.<\/p>\n
Suwinski is the player in focus here, how popped in 2023 with a 112 wRC+ season for the Pirates in 2023, but was up and down in 2024 and 2025. He was picked up by the Dodgers and outrighted off the 40-man roster before the season started. Since then, Suwinski has whalloped 21 homeruns with a 134 wRC+ in Triple-A for Los Angeles across 402 PA in his age-28 season.<\/p>\n
A left handed hitting outfielder with great patience at the plate, Suwinski likely slots behind Jacob Melton on the depth chart, but adds depth to the Rays outfield.<\/p>\n
The Rays had some foresight that a change was incoming with the catching battery, and have promoted Triple-A catcher Kenny Piper for his major league debut in Colorado, at least until Hicks is ready to take his place in the lineup.<\/p>\n
To balance the deal, which returns Feduccia to the organization that sent him to the Rays in the first place, the Rays have included RHP Jacob Kmatz, who has a 35 K-rate across High-A and Double-A as a reliever, to add some international money for the next window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays closed out the trade deadline by dealing catcher Hunter Feduccia, who was displaced on the depth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,24960,137,136],"class_list":["post-362279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362279","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=362279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}