Rays pick up 2026 team option on Yandy Díaz and add vesting option for 2027

By: The Associated Press Posted: 3:34 PM CDT Friday, Mar. 14, 2025

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays have picked up their $12 million team option on Yandy Díaz for the 2026 season.

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays have picked up their $12 million team option on Yandy Díaz for the 2026 season.

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays have picked up their $12 million team option on Yandy Díaz for the 2026 season.

The Rays announced Friday that they had added a vesting option for 2027, pending 2026 performance thresholds.

Díaz batted .281 with 14 homers, 65 RBIs and a .341 on-base percentage in 145 games last season. The 33-year-old first baseman had on-base percentages of .410 in 2023 and .401 in 2022.

FILE - Tampa Bay Rays' Yandy Diaz celebrates in the dugout after hitting a three-run home run in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

He hit an AL-leading .330 and finished sixth in the AL MVP balloting in 2023. He also hit 22 homers and drove in 78 runs that year.

Díaz has a career batting average of .288 with a .373 on-base percentage, 75 homers and 341 RBIs in 754 games. He played with Cleveland from 2017-18 before coming to Tampa Bay in 2019.