Year | AB | H | R | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG | Rate |
2025 proj | 103 | 25 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 0.243 | 2.1 |
2025 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0.125 | -11.2 |
2024 | 122 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 2 | 0.238 | 2.0 |
2023 | 83 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 0.253 | 2.4 |
Date | News |
3/26/25 | Spring Training Stat Leaders for 2025 Fantasy Baseball. Baseball, like a flower, blooms in the spring. They also share equally effusive PR people. Just the other day I read about how a petunia’s branches gained 15 pounds and was in the best shape of its life. Sure, it’s always good to look at spring training numbers to give you an idea what you can expect from guys during the season — can I draft Curtis Mead again?! Please, blog, may I have some more? Source: https://razzball.com/spring-training-stats-for-202... |
3/21/25 | Eloy Jimenez fails to make Rays' Opening Day roster. The Tampa Bay Rays have finalized their roster with Opening Day kicking off the season on March 27. Instead, infielder Curtis Mead made the final roster, which led to manager Kevin Cash demoting Jimenez to Triple-A, according to Rays reporter Ryan Bass. Source: https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/tampa-bay-rays/rays-n... |
3/19/25 | With roster decisions looming, Eloy Jimenez hits a bomb to dead center. PORT CHARLOTTE — Considering his cartoonish batting average this spring, you’ve got to believe Curtis Mead has the inside track on the final roster spot among Tampa Bay’s position players. But that doesn’t mean Eloy Jimenez is going down quietly. When camp opened five weeks ago, the battle between Mead and Jimenez for a backup first base/DH/outfield role was one of the few question marks for ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/roster-decisions-... |
3/07/25 | Fighting For a Roster Spot, Former Tampa Bay Rays Top Prospect Scorching in Spring Training. Tampa Bay Rays infielder Curtis Mead is making a very strong case for the team's Opening Day roster with his performance this spring. Entering play on Friday, Mead is 14-for-18 at the plate. A former top prospect, Mead was ranked as the No. 33 prospect in baseball back in 2023. Playing just 62 games in the last two seasons, Mead is a .244 big-league hitter with 12 homers and two stolen bases. Source: https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/for... |
2/25/25 | Phillies' Cristopher Sánchez ups his velocity in a sharp spring debut vs. Rays. Cristopher Sánchez walked off the mound at Charlotte Sports Park after two scoreless innings Tuesday and shared a laugh with Phillies manager Rob Thomson, jokingly asking to go back out. “I was just joking with him, because he told me yesterday that anything that happened, it was going to be two innings,” Sánchez said through a team interpreter. The lefty was in good spirits after his spring debut in a 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, allowing one single and striking out three — including Curtis Mead, the former Phillies prospect Sánchez was traded for in 2019. Source: https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/phillies-spring-... |
2/20/25 | Why Rays' Curtis Mead thought adding 20 pounds would be a good thing. PORT CHARLOTTE — Infielder Curtis Mead has had his struggles over the past few years with the weight of expectations. So, heading into a pivotal season in his Rays career, Mead addressed that by adding about 20 pounds of muscle. Mead did so with dual goals — to hit the ball harder and to retain his strength throughout the long season. The initial reviews have been strong. “I’m seeing a ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/why-rays-curtis-m... |
2/10/25 | Former Tampa Bay Rays Top Prospect Fighting to Make Roster at Spring Training. Former Tampa Bay Rays top prospect Curtis Mead is reportedly fighting for one of the final spots on the roster as spring training begins this week. Mead will enter spring training battling with Eloy Jimenez for one of Tampa Bay's final bench spots,Marc Topkin of the Tamp Bay Times reports. Mead was ranked the No. 33 prospect in all of baseball (per MLB Pipeline) as recently as 2023, but it just hasn't happened for him at the big-league level yet. Source: https://www.si.com/onsi/minor-league-baseball/news... |
8/11/24 | Mead hits tiebreaking sacrifice fly in 8th, Rays avoid 3-game sweep by beating Orioles 2-1. Curtis Mead had a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays avoided a three-game sweep by beating the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 on Sunday. Brandon Lowe walked to open the eighth against struggling reliever Craig Kimbrel (6-4) and stole second with one out. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/mead-hits-tiebreaking-sac... |
4/26/24 | Skidding White Sox aim to begin turnaround vs. Rays. The Rays own a .500 record, have 10 more wins than the reeling White Sox and face only a four-game deficit in the American League East. Tampa Bay had a day to rest after rallying Wednesday to avoid taking its first series sweep of the season. Rookie Curtis Mead blasted a go-ahead, two-run home run in the sixth inning to propel the Rays, who scored three runs in the inning en route to a 7-5 victory against the visiting Detroit Tigers. Mead acknowledged his first extra-base hit of the year and second career homer "couldn't come at a better moment." Source: https://deadspin.com/skidding-white-sox-aim-to-beg... |
4/25/24 | Mead hits 1st homer of the season and Rays beat Tigers 7-5 to avoid the 3-game sweep. Curtis Mead hit his first homer of the season and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 to avoid a three-game sweep. Ben Rortvedt collected his second RBI of the game with a single and scored on Mead’s two-run drive off Will Vest that put the Rays ahead in the sixth. It was Mead’s first homer since Sept. 22. Tampa Bay had lost three in row and five of seven. Chris Devenski got the win in relief and Garrett Cleavinger worked the ninth to get his second save in as many chances. Source: https://www.chron.com/sports/article/mead-hits-1st... |
4/24/24 | Curtis Mead's homer carries Rays past Tigers. Curtis Mead lofted a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays salvaged one win in their three-game series with Detroit, taming the hot Tigers 7-5 on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. Trailing 5-4, the Rays tied it in the sixth against reliever Will Vest (1-1) on Ben Rortvedt's RBI single. Mead then slugged a two-run shot, his first long ball of the season, down the left field line. Source: https://www.reuters.com/sports/baseball/curtis-mea... |
4/19/24 | Defense dooms Rays, as 2 infield errors lead to 5-run Yankees rally. NEW YORK — The Rays at times this season have had to deal with a slumbering offense, a struggling bullpen and some inconsistent starting pitching. Friday, they were done in by their defense. Errors by second baseman Curtis Mead and first baseman Yandy Diaz factored heavily into the Yankees scoring five runs in the seventh inning and rolling to a 5-3 victory in the teams’ first meeting of 2024. ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/defense-dooms-rays-2-infi... |
2/26/24 | Rays infielder Curtis Mead has no regrets about picking baseball over Australian Rules Football. There are no guarantees for Tampa Bay Rays infielder Curtis Mead this Spring, but he's feeling better about his chance to make this club. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/rays-infielder-curtis-mea... |
8/04/23 | Rays call up Curtis Mead (No. 31 overall prospect). No content provided Source: https://www.mlb.com/news/curtis-mead-called-up-by-... |
4/22/23 | Syracuse Mets fall victim to Durham, 7-4. The Syracuse Mets ran into a Durham Bulls buzzsaw on Saturday afternoon, dropping their fourth game in five days by a 7-4 final on a pleasant early afternoon in the Salt City. The Bulls have now won nine out of their last ten games, while Syracuse has dropped five of its last seven games. Durham (12-7) got right to work early in the ballgame, scoring four runs combined in the first three innings. Curtis Mead hit a solo shot in the top of the first, Ruben Cardenas and Tristan Gray hit back-to-back home runs leading off the second, and Kyle Manzardo lifted a dinger over the right-center field fence in the third. Source: https://www.syracuse.com/mets/2023/04/syracuse-met... |
3/13/23 | Taj Bradley, Curtis Mead are among the first cuts in Rays camp. ST. PETERSBURG — The future was put on temporary hold for the Rays on Monday afternoon. Seven of the organization’s top prospects were sent back to minor-league camp, although several left lasting impressions through the first few weeks of spring training. Infielders Curtis Mead, Osleivis Basabe and Greg Jones and pitchers Taj Bradley, Mason Montgomery, Colby White and Elvin Rodriguez were ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/taj-bradley-curtis-mead-a... |
3/11/23 | It's a spring fling as Rays are talking contract extensions with Curtis Mead, others. Curtis Mead found it surprising, “very humbling” and a few other things when agent Dustin Bledsoe told him recently the Rays had initiated talks about a multiyear contract extension. Mead is one of the top infield prospects in the game, projected to be an impact hitter based on his minor-league performance though he has played only 20 games at Triple-A and not spent a day in the majors. “There's been lots of conversations that have been had,” Mead said. Source: https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2023/03/11/ra... |
1/12/23 | Tampa Bay Rays top prospects 2023: Infielder Curtis Mead, pitcher Taj Bradley headline group. The Tampa Bay farm system is led by a bat-first infielder Source: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/tampa-bay-rays-... |