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The Tampa Bay Rays are determined to find affordable trade deadline help as they try to keep pace in the AL wild card race. According to Jon Morosi of MLB.com, the Rays have asked the Texas Rangers about the availability of DH Hunter Pence, who is …
The Tampa Bay Rays are genuine playoff contenders, but are working on a smaller budget and don’t want to sell the farm. Still, they’ll be looking to add over the next two and a half weeks. Rays senior vice president Chaim Bloom said …
The Tampa Bay Rays have had no luck getting fans to come to games despite being a clear playoff contender this season, and they are practically giving tickets away for free in an attempt to change that. On Thursday, the Rays announced that they will …
The chatter about the Tampa Bay Rays potentially spending part of their season in Montreal has been a big talking point around baseball over the last week, but it’s not close to happening. On Wednesday, the leaders of the group seeking to bring …
Tampa Bay Rays superfan Dick Vitale is not at all happy with the team over the split-season concept they have floated. The Rays last week went public with the idea they are considering having two homes and playing half a season in the Tampa area and …
The Tampa Bay Rays are exploring an unprecedented way to rescue their franchise from a lack of fan interest, and one former MLB player has a great point about why the idea seems unlikely to work. On Thursday, the Rays received permission from MLB to …
The Tampa Bay Rays have drawn some shockingly low attendance numbers this season, and they are reportedly looking to go to extreme measures in an attempt to remedy that issue. ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports that the Rays have received permission …
Thursday night’s game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Angels at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg went into a delay due to a power outage. The game was in the bottom of the fourth inning and Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs was facing …
The Tampa Bay Rays took extreme measures to try and slow down the hot-hitting Jorge Polanco. Polanco doubled to each gap early in the Minnesota Twins’ 5-3 win over the Rays on Friday night. In between the doubles, he tried to bunt for a hit but …
Tampa Bay has some extra incentive these days to put runs on the board. Andrew Mearns of Cut4 relayed on Friday a funny pact that Rays first base coach Ozzie Timmons has with the team — for every run that they score, Timmons has to do ten …
The Tampa Bay Rays have never been able to draw respectable attendance numbers no matter how good their performance is on the field, but that trend appears to be getting worse by the year. Attendance got so low this week, in fact, that the team felt …
The Tampa Bay Rays may be among the best teams in the American League, but their attendance figures continue to be a sore spot. The Tampa Bay Times’ Marc Topkin reported that the team’s attendance of 5,786 fans for Tuesday’s 3-1 win …
The in-season free agent market looks to be on the verge of picking up in Major League Baseball. According to Ken Rosenthal and Josh Tolentino of The Athletic, the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees are both still interested in left-handed starter …
The Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays are the two lowest-ranked teams in baseball in home attendance, so you can probably imagine the type of crowd that turned out when they faced each other on Tuesday night. Somehow, it still seemed worse than …
Despite the fact that a number of teams have had issues at their back of their bullpen this season, free agent closer Craig Kimbrel is still very much available. One team that has looked pretty strong late in games may well look to get even stronger …
Preseason predictions were meant to be defied. That’s true in every sport, but baseball can particularly throw you off, given the length of the seasons and how teams can be prone to lengthy hot or cold streaks. A bad month may be masked over a …
