Jan 2, 2025 · PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – To address an essential need this off-season, the Tampa Bay Rays did little to move the needle. Here was a team that declined in significant offensive categories during the 2024 season and did little by way of additions to gather any help. Aside from signing Danny Jansen as the likely everyday

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Nov 3, 2024 · ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Rays are on the clock. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred set in motion this timetable and now requires some type of answer, if not definitive, on the roof situation at Tropicana Field. This is expected by the end of the current calendar year, if not sooner. During Hurricane Milton

Oct 14, 2024 · ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – During his season-ending briefing with the media in early October, Erik Neander, the Tampa Bay Rays’ president of baseball operations, cited two areas of immediate attention. While the catching position needs direct upgrade, Neander set his urgent sights on a larger question and that is the plight of the offense. In

Oct 7, 2024 · ST. PETERSBERG, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Rays’ return to glory could be a mere distance of 60-feet, six-inches. That’s the space from the pitching rubber to home plate. Within that confined expanse, decision-makers believe the heart and soul lay the 2025 Rays’ destiny. That would define the area in which pitching will likely determine

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – Here at the start of spring training, challenges tend to be minimized and issues less acute. As major league baseball teams open camp this week, “optimism” appears to be the most trusted variable. That was the feeling through the words of Erik Neander, the Tampa Bay Rays president of baseball operations

Jan 13, 2025 · ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – While the vast majority of attention this off-season has been placed on Tropicana Field, the Tampa Bay Rays still have a baseball season to prepare. With pitchers and catchers reporting to their spring site in Port Charlotte in just over one month, composition and construction for the season ahead seemed to

Oct 25, 2024 · ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Homeless, wandering, and plunged into darkness. That describes the current plight of the Tampa Bay Rays. The roof of their home at Tropicana Field was ripped apart from the devastation of hurricane Milton on Oct. 9, and now queries abound where the first pitch of the 2025 season will be thrown.. Immediately after the storm hit, the Rays cranked their PR campaign and ...

Oct 28, 2024 · The 2024 World Series featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees is the 12th Fall Classic to showcase the two storied franchises. It calls to mind the many great moments that have taken place in those 11 other World Series. Let’s look back at one of those moments, the 1955 World Series when

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – With a sudden flip of the calendar, we hear the ball popping into leather gloves, witness the masterpiece of wooden bats at work, and fans clamoring for autographs from their heroes. Welcome to spring training, 2025. With all Major League teams opening camp this week, some have the intriguing task of