Tampa Bay Rays

Catcher Danny Jansen agreed to a one-year, $8.5 million contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, multiple media outlets reported on Friday. ESPN reported the deal includes a mutual option for a second season. Jansen will be playing for his third team in the American League East. He suited up for both the Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox last season. In fact, Jansen made major league history as the first player to appear for both teams in the same game. Jansen was facing an 0-1 count on June 26 when the game was suspended by rain with one out in the top of the second inning. He then was traded to the Red Sox on July 27 for three prospects. On Aug. 26, Toronto's Daulton Varsho pinch-hit for Jansen

Major League Baseball’s two murky stadium situations got a little more clarity on Thursday night. In Florida, the St. Petersburg city council agreed to uphold its commitment toward the construction of the Historic Gas Plant District, which includes a new $1.3 billion domed stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. The 4-3 vote in favor approved …

The New York Mets are expected to be very active this offseason in free agency. Several big fish are available, including Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman, Corbin Burnes and Max Fried. The Mets are expected to be in play for Soto. Gabe Lacques of USA Today proposed the idea of New York trading for Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Zack Littell after potentially signing Soto to a record deal.

The Tampa Bay Rays saw their Tropicana Field home get ravaged by Hurricane Milton. Now a political storm threatens to derail their plans for a new ballpark too.

The Atlanta Braves may have a need to fill in the starting rotation if Max Fried does not return to Atlanta. "Tampa Bay is looking to cut payroll a bit and moving players like Springs, Fairbanks, Yandy Diaz, or Brandon Lowe would help them," wrote Teal.

The trade market for starting pitchers this offseason has been dominated by the Chicago White Sox and Garrett Crochet. The Rays are considering trades for some of their starting pitchers according to ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan on Thursday. “Crochet isn't the only impactful starting pitcher who could move,” Passan wrote.

The New York Yankees are still waiting to see how things shake out with Juan Soto before spending money elsewhere, but they could address one of their biggest needs via trade in the meantime. After declining Anthony Rizzo's club option in November, the Yankees left themselves without a clear starter at first base for 2025. The Athletic's Jim Bowden ran with those rumors, proposing a hypothetical trade between the Yankees and Rays that could go down at the Baseball Winter Meetings next week.

If there's one thing we know about the Tampa Bay Rays, it's that they'll never hesitate to trade their players away before they get expensive. All of those players were key members of the Rays' most recent playoff run, but Tampa Bay always finds someone to replace their veterans.

Few teams need to improve their offense more than the Pittsburgh Pirates this offseason. One way Pittsburgh could address the pressing need is via trade. ESPN's David Schoenfield had the taking that route, naming them as the team he wants to see trade for Tampa Bay Rays left-handed hitting second baseman Brandon Lowe. "The Pirates have plenty of options to fill second base -- although none of them are great options," Schoenfield writes.

According to Jon Morosi of MLB.com, a pair of Tampa Bay Rays pitchers are generating real trade interest in advance of next week's winter meetings. Rays LHP Jeffrey Springs and RHP Pete Fairbanks are among the Tampa Bay pitchers garnering trade interest in the days before the Winter Meetings, as I reported today on @MLBNetwork.

The entire baseball world is in a holding pattern as it waits for superstar free agent Juan Soto to sign this offseason. One name that should attract significant attenion is Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Yandy Diaz. Diaz is coming off a season in which he hit .281 with 14 homers and 65 RBI. As the Rays look to turn around a fourth-place finish in 2025, they certainly could keep Diaz around.

The Tampa Bay Rays may have lost out on their supposed shortstop of the future in Wander Franco, but their heir apparent could arrive in 2025. MLB.com's Sam Dykstra, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo joined forces this week to predict each team's top Rookie of the Year contender for the upcoming season.

Fernando Rodney may be 47 years old, five seasons removed from his last MLB appearance, but he isn't done pitching just yet. The Hamilton Cardinals have signed Rodney for the 2025 season, the team announced Thursday. The right-handed reliever, who has spent the past few years pitching in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, will now be taking his talents to Canada as part of the Intercounty Baseball League. Rodney was added to the Baseball Writers' Association of America's ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame earlier this month.

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Horseheads’ Austin Teets is moving up in professiobal baseball. Teets has learned that he will be a conditioning coach for the Tampa Bay Rays Class AAA affiliate this upcoming season. Austin will report to the Durham Bulls in North Carolina and aims to bring his knowledge and expertise to a higher […]

Rather than play home games in summer humidity and rain, MLB has heavily back-loaded the Rays' schedule with road games.

If only Pat Williams were still alive. We need him now more than ever. The beloved Orlando dreamer, the sports visionary who co-founded the Magic four decades ago, told us this was going to happen years before he passed away in July. He told us that if we’d just get off our butts and get to work, we could lure the Tampa Bay Rays to Orlando. “The Rays have been trying to get a new stadium in ...

The Seattle Mariners declined to tender contracts to utility player Sam Haggerty, infielder Josh Rojas, and relievers Austin Voth and J.T. Chargois on Friday.

ST. PETERSBURG — Baseball operations president Erik Neander talked a lot Friday night about how lefty pitchers Colin Poche and Tyler Alexander have helped the Rays and could continue to do so. But he also made it clear the team wasn’t sure how either would fit on the 2025 roster, especially given their projected arbitration salaries. Deciding they would be better off moving on without them, ...

ST. PETERSBURG — Ian Seymour had several achievements to celebrate over the past year. A couple of pitcher of the week awards. The promotion in July from Double-A Montgomery to Triple-A Durham. Acknowledgement as the Rays’ top minor-league pitcher. And, Monday, placement on Tampa Bay’s 40-man roster, a step that indicates how much a player is in the team’s plans and often leads to a big-league ...

Jose Siri batted .187 with 18 home runs, 47 RBIs and a .620 OPS in a career-high 130 games this year for the Rays, who obtained him from Houston in August 2022.

For those Colorado Rockies fans out there, here are some noteworthy games to look forward to in 2025.

A former Hopewell pitcher and one of the top 25 prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system was added to the team's 40-man roster Monday.

In the wake of Hurricane Milton recovery, Rays owner Stuart Sternberg said moving the Rays out of town entirely 'is not an unlikely conclusion.'

ST. PETERSBURG — At the time, the moment seemed unremarkable. A ground ball to Taylor Walls. An underhand flip to Jose Caballero to force Toronto’s Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at second base. A completed 4-3 Rays victory in their final home game of a frustrating 2024 season. Is it really possible that was the closing act in the life of Tropicana Field? Or, even worse, of Major League Baseball in St. ...

After more than 20 years of ballpark problems for the Athletics and Rays, the situation has reached critical mass for these vagabond Major League Baseball clubs. Both teams will play the 2025 season in minor league facilities, for vastly different reasons. The A’s chose to move from Oakland to Las Vegas, where a new ballpark …