{"id":902025,"date":"2026-11-01T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902025\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:30:23","slug":"rasmussen-earns-highest-aav-in-rays-history-after-20m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902025\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmussen earns highest AAV in Rays history after $20M"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Rays exercised the $20-million club option on right-hander Drew Rasmussen’s contract for 2027, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rasmussen becomes the highest-paid player annually in Rays history following the move, according to Rays reporter Ryan Bass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The previous franchise record was held by Evan Longoria, who signed a six-year, $100-million deal ($16.67-million annual salary) in 2012.<\/p>\n

Rasmussen put together a career year, authoring a 2.67 ERA and 2.82 FIP during his second straight All-Star campaign.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old has been terrific for the Rays since they acquired him from the Milwaukee Brewers in May 2021. He owns a 2.71 ERA, 0.99 WHIP, and 8.3 K\/9 in 600 1\/3 innings during six seasons with Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Yandy D\u00edaz’s $13-million vesting option for the 2027 campaign was also formally completed by the Rays on Saturday, according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times<\/a>. The designated hitter met the conditions by reaching 500 plate appearances this past year and completing the season healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays exercised the $20-million club option on right-hander Drew Rasmussen’s contract for 2027, the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-902025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}