{"id":30711,"date":"2026-05-26T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/rays-to-sign-craig-kimbrel\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:10:02","slug":"rays-to-sign-craig-kimbrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/rays-to-sign-craig-kimbrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays To Sign Craig Kimbrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Veteran reliever <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kimbrcr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Craig Kimbrel<\/a><\/strong> is heading to the Rays on a major league deal, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2059311336979677499?s=20\">Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a>. Kimbrel was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/05\/mets-designate-craig-kimbrel-for-assignment-recall-jonah-tong.html\" rel=\"noopener\">designated for assignment<\/a> by the Mets last week and elected free agency. The 37-year-old is represented by SportsMeter.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays have yet to announce the move. The club has multiple openings on its 40-man roster, so no tweak will be needed there. Kimbrel is expected to be available for tonight\u2019s game against the Orioles, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TBTimes_Rays\/status\/2059315488228827451?s=20\">Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets added Kimbrel on a minor league deal in January. He failed to break camp with the team, but was called up in early April. The right-hander didn\u2019t allow an earned run over his first four appearances in New York, but has since struggled. Kimbrel allowed seven earned runs over 9 2\/3 innings in May. He covered 2 2\/3 frames on Wednesday, ceding two earned runs. The Mets DFAed him on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to come\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel is heading to the Rays on a major league deal, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mlbtraderumors.com\/files\/2026\/05\/CraigKimbrel-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}