Sizing up the Tampa Bay Rays ahead of the 2025 season

The jokes write themselves. The Tampa Bay Rays are so cheap that some of the money they received from a local business was derived from running a Ponzi scheme. The Rays had to return $200,000 they received from Drive Planning after an SEC complaint.

José Caballero, who is fighting for a role in the Tampa Bay Rays' infield, fouled a ball off his foot against the Detroit Tigers on Thursday and had to leave the game.

A catcher for a large part of his nine seasons in the minors, Ricardo Genoves was filling in at first base for the Rays in the late innings of Monday’s exhibition game to get some at-bats. In the top of the ninth,

The start time for Monday's spring training game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox has been moved because of expected heavy rainfall, foreshadowing what the Tampa Bay Rays might have to deal with this season as they play a season outdoors.

The Shamrocks had a two-sport star in quarterback/pitcher Ryan Pepiot. He developed good habits that allowed him to rise to baseball's highest level.

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Caballero was removed from Thursday's Grapefruit League contest versus the Tigers after fouling a ball off his foot, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports. Teams are always overly cautious at this stage of spring training,

Shane McClanahan already missed the entire 2024 season recovering from Tommy John surgery, and the Tampa Bay Rays could be truly lost if he gets knocked out again in 2025.

They only played two innings — the game at Charlotte Sports Park against the Tampa Bay Rays was wiped out by rain with the score 1-1 at the time — but their inclusion in the lineup is part of manager Rocco Baldelli’s new initiative to get the vets more playing time this spring.

An outfield full of question marks, a roster crunch in the infield and the potential of another ace emerging stand out as storylines for the Tampa Bay Rays.