Below is a partial list of minor league baseball players in the Tampa Bay Rays system:
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Ruben Alaniz
Ruben Alaniz (born June 14, 1991) is an American baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Alaniz was born in McAllen, Texas and attended Juarez-Lincoln High School in La Joya, Texas. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Houston Astros on August 14, 2009 after participating in a tryout camp run by scout Rusty Pendergrass. He was signed for $160,000, with Pendergrass and scout Clarence Johns claiming Alaniz has the "stuff to be a major league starter." He began his professional career the next year. With the Greenville Astros in 2010, he was 6-4 with a 4.21 ERA and the following year, he was 7-10 with a 4.44 mark for the Lexington Legends. In 2012, Alaniz went 6-2 with a 5.04 ERA for the Lancaster JetHawks and in 2013, he was 9-9 with a 4.53 mark for the Corpus Christi Hooks. He was 1-1 with a 6.64 ERA for the Corpus Christi Hooks in 2014 before being suspended 50 games for using a drug of abuse in late August. It was his second suspension. He returned in 2015 to go 6-4 with a 4.55 ERA for the Hooks; he became a free agent following the season and signed with the Tigers on December 3.
Alaniz was once rated as having the best curveball in the Astros system and had been named among the club's best prospects. He appeared in major league spring training in 2012.
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Chris Betts
Christopher Raymond Betts is an American professional baseball catcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the second round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft.
Betts attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. In January 2013 he committed to the University of Tennessee to play college baseball. After his junior year he played in the Under Armour All-America Game at Wrigley Field. In July he participated in the Junior Home Run Derby. He also played on numerous United States national teams that played in numerous tournaments.
Betts was considered one of the top catching prospects for the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the second round. Betts did not play in 2015 due to him having Tommy John surgery. In 2016, Betts was assigned to the GCL Rays, and was later promoted to the Hudson Valley Renegades. Betts finished 2016 batting .179 with no home runs and 13 RBIs in 39 games between both clubs. Betts played only seven games in 2017, for the GCL Rays, due to injury.
Diego Castillo
Diego Castillo (born January 18, 1994) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Castillo signed with the Tampa Bay Rays as an international free agent in March 2014. He made his professional debut that season with the Dominican Summer League Rays.
In 2017, Castillo played for the Montgomery Biscuits and Durham Bulls. He was named the Rays minor league reliever of the year after posting a 2.76 earned run average (ERA) with 90 strikeouts and 15 saves. The Rays added him to their 40-man roster after the season.
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Thomas Coyle
Thomas John Coyle (born October 24, 1990 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania) is a minor league baseball second baseman currently in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Prior to playing professionally, he attended Germantown Academy and then the University of North Carolina.
He was drafted by the Rays in the 16th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft and began his professional career that year, with the Hudson Valley Renegades, hitting .265 with 20 stolen bases in 67 games. He was named to the New York-Penn League Mid-Season All-Star team and the MiLB.com Organization All-Star team. In 2013, he hit .278 with 40 stolen bases in 126 games for the Bowling Green Hot Rods, earning a spot on the Midwest League All-Star team and the MiLB.com Organization All-Star team. In 2014, he hit .249 with 30 stolen bases in 117 games for the Charlotte Stone Crabs.
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Lucius Fox
Lucius Kadeem Fox Jr. (born July 2, 1997) is a Bahamian professional baseball shortstop in the Tampa Bay Rays' organization.
Fox is from Nassau, Bahamas. He lived in the United States for 2 1/2 years, during which time he attended American Heritage High School in Plantation, Florida. He was declared an international free agent during the 2015 signing period. Fox signed with the Giants, for a reported $6 million signing bonus. He spent his first professional season, in 2016, with the Augusta GreenJackets of the Class A South Atlantic League, posting a .207 batting average with two home runs, 16 RBIs and 25 stolen bases.
On August 1, 2016, the Giants traded Fox, Matt Duffy, and Michael Santos to the Tampa Bay Rays for Matt Moore. He did not play for the Rays after the trade due to a bone bruise on his foot sustained while playing for Augusta. Fox began the 2017 season with the Bowling Green Hot Rods of the Class A Midwest League. He represented the World Team in the 2017 All-Star Futures Game. After batting .278 with two home runs, 27 RBIs and 27 stolen bases in 77 games for Bowling Green, the Rays promoted Fox to the Charlotte Stone Crabs of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, where he finished the season, batting .235 with one home run and 12 RBIs.
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Kevin Gadea
Kevin Joel Gadea Ortega (born December 6, 1994) is a Nicaraguan professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Gadea signed with the Seattle Mariners as an international free agent in 2012. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2016 Rule 5 draft.
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Ian Gibaut
Ian Philip Gibaut (born November 19, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Gibaut attended Lamar High School in Houston, Texas and played college baseball at Tulane University. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 11th round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft.
Gibaut made his professional debut with the Princeton Rays. In 2016, he pitched for the Bowling Green Hot Rods and Charlotte Stone Crabs and 2017 pitched with Charlotte and the Montgomery Biscuits. Gibaut started 2018 with the Durham Bulls.
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Grant Kay
Grant Kay (born May 29, 1993) is a second baseman who plays in the Tampa Bay Rays Minor League system. Listed at 6' 0" (1.83 m), 185 lb. (84 k), Kay bats and throws right handed. He was selected by Tampa Bay in the 27th round of the 2014 MLB draft out of University of Louisville.
A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Kay is one of four siblings born into the family of Greg Kay and Dawn Pearsons. An all-around athlete, he lettered in baseball, basketball and football at Ralston High School, where he earned All-State and All-Super State honors as a senior in baseball, was All-Conference basketball selection in both junior and senior seasons, and hit a .500 batting average with 20 home runs and 65 runs batted in as a preparatory senior.
Before Louisville, Kay attended Iowa Western Community College and won a national championship with the IWCC Reivers in 2012, rating as No. 3 prospect in the collegiate summer baseball New England Collegiate Baseball League the same year as a freshman to become the only junior college player named Collegiate Summer Baseball All-American in that season. Besides, he was selected to the First-team All-Conference and All-Region in both freshman and sophomore seasons at Iowa Western, hitting .373 and 13 home runs as a freshman, while driving in 37 runs and scoring 42 times. Unfortunately, a knee injury suffered as a sophomore limited his availability, even though he was rated as one of the top junior college ballplayers in the nation.
In 2014, Kay posted a .285 average (59-for-207) with five home runs and 35 RBI as a junior for the Cardinals, including 49 runs, nine doubles and 23 stolen bases in 65 games, en route to their second straight trip to the College World Series. While mulling his eligible options for the MLB Draft, Kay headed to the Cape Cod Baseball League, the premier summer wooden-bat circuit for collegiate players, where he went 14-for-26 (.538) with two homers and four doubles in only six games for the Cotuit Kettleers, and that short stint tipped the scales. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 27th round of the 2014 MLB Draft and signed.
Kay debuted on July 14, 2014 with the Hudson Valley Renegades of the New York-Penn League, Class A affiliate of the Rays, playing at second base for them while batting fifth in the order. He hit for the cycle in his first professional game, going 5-for-6 with five runs scored and three RBIs, leading the Renegades to a 16-4 victory over the Batavia Muckdogs. Kay hit a three-run home run in his first professional at-bat, following with a double in his third at-bat and singles in his fourth and fifth, before drilling a triple in the eight inning to complete a five-hit, five-run game and a cycle in his first professional contest. In 42 total games for Hudson Valley he slashed .314/.376/.491 with two home runs and 20 RBIs. He spent 2015 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods where he batted .251 with one home run and 31 RBIs in 118 games, and 2016 with the Charlotte Stone Crabs where he posted a .242 batting average with eight home runs and 45 RBIs in 115 games. In 2017, Kay played for both the Durham Bulls and Montgomery Biscuits, compiling a combined .265 batting average with seven home runs and 54 RBIs in 115 total games between both teams.
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Brandon Lowe
Brandon Norman Lowe (born July 6, 1994) is an American professional baseball second baseman in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Lowe attended Nansemond River High School in Suffolk, Virginia, and played college baseball at the University of Maryland. Two days before the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft, he suffered a broken fibula. Despite the injury, he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the third round of the draft. He recovered from the injury and made his professional debut in 2016 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods.
Lowe started 2017 with the Charlotte Stone Crabs and was promoted to the Montgomery Biscuits during the season. With Charlotte he hit .311/.403/.524 with nine home runs and was named the MVP of the Florida State League. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League and was selected to play in the Fall Stars Game.
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José Mujica
José Mujica (born June 29, 1996) is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Mujica signed with the Tampa Bay Rays as an international free agent in July 2012. The Rays added him to their 40-man roster after the 2017 season.
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Kevin Padlo
Kevin Michael Padlo (born July 15, 1996) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Padlo attended Murrieta Valley High School in Murrieta, California. He committed to attend the University of San Diego on a college baseball scholarship. The Colorado Rockies selected Padlo in the fifth round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft. Rather than enroll in college, Padlo signed with the Rockies, receiving a $650,000 signing bonus. The Rockies assigned Padlo to the Asheville Tourists of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2015. He struggled, and was demoted to the Boise Hawks of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League. Padlo spent the entire 2015 season with the Hawks, and was named a preseason and midseason Northwest League All-Star.
On January 28, 2016, the Rockies traded Padlo and Corey Dickerson to the Tampa Bay Rays for Jake McGee and Germán Márquez. He spent the 2016 season with the Bowling Green Hot Rods of the Class A Midwest League, where he batted .229 with 16 home runs and 66 RBI's. He spent 2017 with the Charlotte Stone Crabs, posting a .223 batting average with 6 home runs and 35 RBI's. After the season, the Rays assigned Padlo to the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League.
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Jermaine Palacios
Jermaine Manuel Palacios Leon (born July 19, 1996) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Palacios signed as an international free agent with the Minnesota Twins organization in 2014 and made his debut that same year, for the DSL Twins, where he spent the whole season, posting a .270 batting average with 29 RBIs and 14 stolen bases. In 2015, he played for both the GCL Twins and the Elizabethton Twins, posting a combined .370 batting average with three home runs and 37 RBIs in 57 total games between both teams. He spent 2016 with the Cedar Rapids Kernals where he batted .222 with one home run and 28 RBIs. He began the 2017 season back with Cedar Rapids, and after batting .320 with 11 home runs and 39 RBIs, was promoted to the Fort Myers Miracle where he finished the season with a .269 batting average with two home runs and 28 RBIs. On February 18, 2018, the Twins traded Palacios to the Tampa Bay Rays for Jake Odorizzi.
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Jesús Sánchez
Jesús Sánchez (born October 7, 1997) is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Sánchez signed with the Tampa Bay Rays as an international free agent in June 2014. He made his professional debut in 2015 with the Dominican Summer League Rays. He played 2016 with the Gulf Coast Rays and Princeton Rays and started 2017 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods.
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Nick Solak
Nicholas Blake Solak (born January 11, 1995) is an American professional baseball infielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Solak played college baseball at Louisville. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft. He made his professional debut with the Staten Island Yankees. He finished the 2016 season with a .321 batting average and 3 homers. In 2017, Solak maintained a batting average over .300 the entire season for the Tampa Yankees, hitting 10 home runs with 44 RBIs and 13 stolen bases before getting promoted to Double-A Trenton Thunder on August 1, where he finished the season slashing .286/.344/429.
On February 18, 2018, the Yankees sent Solak to the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-team trade, in which the Yankees acquired Brandon Drury from the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Diamondbacks acquired Steven Souza from the Tampa Bay Rays and Taylor Widener from the Yankees, and the Rays acquired Anthony Banda and two players to be named later from the Diamondbacks.
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Curtis Taylor
Curtis W. Taylor (born July 25, 1995) is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Taylor attended University of British Columbia. He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth round of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft. Taylor made his professional debut with the Hillsboro Hops and spent the whole 2016 season there, posting a 1-0 record with a 2.20 ERA with 23 strikeouts in 16.1 innings pitched. In 2017, he played for the Kane County Cougars where he pitched to a 3-4 record and 3.32 ERA in 13 games started.
On November 30, 2017, the Diamondbacks traded Taylor to the Tampa Bay Rays for Brad Boxberger.
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Carlos Vargas
Carlos Jose Vargas Polanco (born March 18, 1999) is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Vargas signed with the Seattle Mariners as an international free agent in July 2015. He made his professional debut in 2016 with the DSL Mariners and spent the whole season there, posting a .242 batting average with seven home runs and 35 RBIs.
On January 11, 2017, Vargas was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays, along with Mallex Smith and Ryan Yarbrough, for Drew Smyly. The Rays assigned him to the GCL Rays where he spent the whole 2017 season, batting .245 with five home runs and 27 RBIs.
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Justin Williams
Justin Paul Williams (born August 20, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Williams attended Terrebonne High School in Houma, Louisiana. He hit .443 with 22 home runs and 67 runs batted in (RBI) over 79 games. Williams was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Diamondbacks rather than play college baseball at Louisiana State University (LSU) and made his professional debut that season with Arizona League Diamondbacks. He also played with the Missoula Osprey and South Bend Silver Hawks that season. He hit .351 with one home run in 51 games. In 2014, he played for Missoula and South Bend. In 74 games he hit .351 with four home runs and 46 RBIs.
On November 14, 2014, Williams along with Andrew Velazquez was traded from the Diamondbacks to the Tampa Bay Rays for Jeremy Hellickson. He spent 2015 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods and Charlotte Stone Crabs, compiling a combined .277 batting average with seven home runs and 48 RBIs in 122 games, and 2016 with Charlotte and the Montgomery Biscuits where he batted .295 with ten home runs and 59 RBIs in 90 total games. In 2017, Williams played for Montgomery where he slashed .301/.364/.489 with 14 home runs and 72 RBIs in 96 games.
The Rays added him to their 40-man roster after the 2017 season.
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Kean Wong
Kean Keanu Wong (born April 17, 1995) is an American professional baseball second baseman who plays in Minor League Baseball for the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Wong attended Waiakea High School in Hilo, Hawaii. The Tampa Bay Rays selected Wong in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB draft. He signed with the Rays, receiving a $400,000 signing bonus. After he signed, he played for the Gulf Coast Rays of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League where he slashed .328/.377/.390 with 22 RBIs in 46 games.
Wong spent 2014 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods of the Class A Midwest League where he batted .306 with two home runs and 24 RBIs in 106 games. HE was promoted to the Charlotte Stone Crabs in 2015, where he posted a .274 batting average with one home runs and 36 RBIs along with 15 stolen bases in 103 games. In 2016, Wong played for the Montgomery Biscuits of the Class AA Southern League where he batted .276 with five home runs and 56 RBIs. In 2017, Wong played for the Durham Bulls of the Class AAA International League where he posted a .265 average with five home runs and 44 RBIs and was named the MVP of the Triple-A National Championship Game.
His father, Kaha, instructed him on how to play baseball. His older brother, Kolten Wong, plays in MLB.
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Stephen Woods
Stephen Hugo Woods Jr. (born June 10, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Woods attended Half Hollow Hills East High School in Dix Hills, New York. While pitching for the school's baseball team in 2013, he threw two consecutive no-hitters.
The Tampa Bay Rays selected him in the sixth round of the 2013 MLB draft, but he did not sign with the Rays. He enrolled at State University of New York at Albany, and played college baseball for the Albany Great Danes. In the summer of 2014, he played collegiate summer baseball for the North Fork Ospreys of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League. After his junior year, the San Francisco Giants selected him in the eighth round of the 2016 MLB draft. Woods signed with the Giants rather than return to Albany for his senior year. He spent his first professional season with both the AZL Giants and the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, posting a combined 1-2 record and 3.34 ERA in 35 total innings. In 2017, he played for the Augusta GreenJackets, going 6-7 with a 2.95 ERA in 110 innings.
On December 20, 2017, the Giants traded Woods, Denard Span, Christian Arroyo, and Matt Krook to the Rays for Evan Longoria and cash considerations.
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