{"id":803419,"date":"2026-09-12T20:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/803419\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:33:13","slug":"rays-designate-michael-grove-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/803419\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Designate Michael Grove For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rays announced that right-hander Michael Grove<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 The move opens up a 40-man roster spot for righty Brody Hopkins<\/a>, whose contract was selected earlier today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Formerly a standout in the Dodgers farm system, Grove earned a World Series ring with L.A. in 2024 but delivered only a 5.48 ERA over 149 1\/3 innings for the team from 2022-24.\u00a0 His participation in the 2024 playoffs was cut short by a shoulder issue that required surgery in March 2025, which put Grove on the sidelines for over a year.\u00a0 The Dodgers outrighted Grove last November and he elected minor league free agency, though it took him until April to catch on with the Rays on a split contract.<\/p>\n

The final stage of Grove\u2019s shoulder rehab kept him from pitching until he started a minor league rehab assignment on May 23, and he pitched in one MLB game (three innings of relief work on June 27) before being quickly sent back to Triple-A after that cup of coffee.\u00a0 He\u2019s been back and forth a couple of times, with a 5.14 ERA and three home runs allowed to show for seven innings over three appearances in a Tampa Bay uniform.<\/p>\n

Grove\u2019s numbers in Durham are much stronger, as he has a 3.55 ERA, 29.1% strikeout rate, and 9.5% walk rate in 33 Triple-A innings this year.\u00a0 The Rays seemingly didn\u2019t have any plans for him besides spot duty, so this DFA could basically be an early non-tender if it leads to Grove entering free agency.<\/p>\n

A waiver claim is certainly possible if another team has interest in adding the 29-year-old as pitching depth.\u00a0 If Grove clears waivers, he has the right to reject an outright assignment in favor of free agency, since he has been outrighted in the past.\u00a0 Since Grove has less than five years of MLB service time, however, he\u2019d have to forfeit the remainder of his guaranteed money from his Rays deal if he did elect free agency.\u00a0 The Rays may be counting on Grove accepting an outright and staying in the organization, rather than giving up some money to pursue another deal at this late stage of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays announced that right-hander Michael Grove has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 The move opens up a 40-man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,30917,7908],"class_list":["post-803419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-brody-hopkins","tag-michael-grove"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117259980245527546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803419","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=803419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}