{"id":803345,"date":"2026-09-12T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/803345\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:21:17","slug":"rays-brody-hopkins-contract-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/803345\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Brody Hopkins: Contract selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rays<\/a> selected <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/29644518\/hopkins\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hopkins<\/a>&#8216; contract from Triple-A Durham on Saturday, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins spent most of the season working in the rotation at Durham, but after struggling as a starter, the team moved him to the bullpen in August. Now that he&#8217;s pitched six consecutive shutout innings at Triple-A as a reliever, the 24-year-old righty will join the big club to help bolster the Rays&#8217; bullpen. He&#8217;ll be making his MLB debut whenever he gets into a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays selected Hopkins&#8216; contract from Triple-A Durham on Saturday, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,30917,28,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-803345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-brody-hopkins","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117259461157428368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}