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Rays' Erasmo Ramirez: Could be moved in offseason due to salary

Ramirez is a candidate to be moved this offseason from a Rays team looking to cut salary, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.

Analysis:

The 26-year-old right-hander ate up some valuable innings out of the Rays bullpen this season, but also proved to be a bit up-and-down in his performance while amassing a career-high 11 losses. That followed a promising 2015 campaign when Ramirez had gone 11-6 with a respectable 3.75 ERA while starting 27 games. Ramirez made only one spot start all season despite talk coming out of spring training that he'd serve as an occasional fifth member of the rotation, instead tallying 63 relief appearances, over which he generated 15 holds, a 3.77 ERA and 1.28 WHIP. With the five-year major league veteran likely to be awarded approximately $4 million in arbitration, he could well be jettisoned in an effort to free up salary that will attract higher quality arms to the relief corps.

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