ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Pete Fairbanks, who racked up 75 saves for the Tampa Bay Rays over the last three seasons, has signed with the Miami Marlins, according to reports.<\/p>\n
ESPN and The Athletic, among other outlets, report that the deal is for one year and $13 million.<\/p>\n
The Rays had earlier declined an $11 million option for Fairbanks, 32, who spent seven seasons in a Rays uniform.<\/p>\n
Fairbanks was acquired by the Rays from the Texas Rangers in 2019 and became one of the team’s most reliable relievers. That included six wins and a 2.70 ERA during the COVID-shortened 2020 season, when the Rays won the American League pennant.<\/p>\n
He pitched in 61 games last season, notching 27 saves with a 2.83 ERA.<\/p>\n
He joins a Marlins team that went 79-83 last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Pete Fairbanks, who racked up 75 saves for the Tampa Bay Rays over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1242,28,115,139,275,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815],"class_list":["post-95227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-florida","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95227","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=95227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}