THE Rays of Tampa Bay Add a major speed to their range in order to get out of the last place in Al East.
Tampa Bay calls the Chandler Simpson from Triple-A Durham Simpson, The team announced Friday. This season, Simpson has eight stolen bases in 17 games and hits 0.301. Last year, between High Single-A and Double-A, he stole 104 bases in 110 games while hitting .355, which led the minor leagues, with an OPS of .807.
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Simpson was classified as perspective n ° 7 in the organization of rays by mlb.com. During his career in the minor league, he had 214 interceptions in 250 games with an average of the stick of .324 and 0,760 Ops. Simpson was the choice of rays in 2022 in the second round of Georgia Tech.
Simpson was an indoor field player at university, but the Rays moved it to the outside after writing it. He should play in the center of Tampa Bay, where he has played Triple-A this season.
“He adds an element to any programming with the speed at which he is, his contact capacity,” said Rays director Kevin Cash, to journalists, via mlb.com. “I think he's going to have an opportunity here, a bit of a track. We will see.”
“I don't know if it will be a short passage, a long passage,” he added. “I don't know, but I'm very excited to shake hands with him once he landed here in Tampa.”
To erase a place for Simpson, Richie Palacios was placed on the wounded list of 10 days due to a sprained of the right knee. Launcher Alex Faedo Was moved to the 60 -day IL due to the right inflammation of the shoulder, making room on the list of 40 men of the team.
The shelves enter Friday match with New York Yankees at 8-11 and fifth in the Al East, half a game behind the Baltimore Orioles. Tampa Bay was already one of the faster MLB teams, tied in fifth row with 24 stolen bases. Simpson should also help an offense that ranks n ° 3 on average in the stick at 0.270 and n ° 7 with a .751 OPS.
