The Rays can look forward to a significant lineup boost. The team has activated outfielder Austin Meadows from the COVID-19 injured list, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times tweets.
Meadows has yet to make his season debut. He had already been cleared to rejoin the team but needed a few weeks to ramp up to regular-season readiness.
To create an active roster spot, the club optioned righty Trevor Richards. He was a nice pickup for the Tampa Bay organization last year but had been knocked around early in 2020.
Meadows will now get back to work trying to build off of his enormously impressive showing in his first full MLB campaign. He launched 33 home runs, swiped a dozen bags, and posted a 142 wRC+ over 591 plate appearances last season.
About damn time
Stud!
They only activated Meadows to trade him for Chris Archer.
What’s worse for Pirates getting nothing of serious value for Cole or trading for for Archer. My guess is Archer you gave away two stud players who are cheap.
They still have all the guys from the Cole trade and some actually have some value at least
The Rays have to take someone off the 40-man or put someone on the COVID IL in order to add Meadows back, correct? I don’t think Trevor Richards is the only move they need to make here.
The Covid IL does not take a player off of a team’s 40 man roster, only the 45 or 60 day il moves do that. Both Meadows and Richards were on the 40 man roster so that is the only move that needs to be made here.
It doesn’t take a player off the 40-man, but the Rays added extra players to fill out their active roster, which would mean that in order to be back at 40-players someone would have to go.
The Rays are at 42 players; Randy Arozarena and Austin Meadows were the +2 because they were in COVID IL. Now that Meadows is activated, you’ve gotta get rid of someone.