{"id":398145,"date":"2026-09-12T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398145\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:46:20","slug":"summerville-alum-brody-hopkins-called-up-to-tampa-bay-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398145\/","title":{"rendered":"Summerville alum Brody Hopkins called up to Tampa Bay Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 Brody Hopkins is heading to the show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Summerville alum has been called up to the major leagues by the Tampa Bay Rays the team confirmed on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hopkins is the top rated pitching prospect in the Rays organization and the 7th best prospect overall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2025, Hopkins was spectacular in Double-A Montgomery going 5-7 with a 2.72 ERA and 141 strikeouts in 116 innings of work. He was also selected for the Futures All-Star game in Atlanta where he recorded a perfect inning of work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This season has been more of a struggle in Triple-A Durham. He\u2019s 4-8 with a 5.17 ERA but still has 122 strikeouts in 94 innings of work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hopkins has been great the last few weeks though since he made a shift from starting pitcher to reliever. He\u2019s pitched 9 innings since making the move and has given up just 3 runs with 16 K\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hopkins played for the College of Charleston and later transferred to Winthrop after graduating from Summerville. He was a 6th round pick of the Mariners in the 2023 Draft and was traded to Tampa Bay in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hopkins brother TJ also reached the Major Leagues back in 2023. He\u2019d play 25 games for the Cincinnati Reds collecting 7 hits. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 Brody Hopkins is heading to the show. The Summerville alum has been called up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-398145","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\/398145","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=398145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}