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2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Cooper Kinney
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
Rays Rumors: A Starting Pitcher Reunion
In last weekend’s column from Marc Topkin, he strongly suggested that the Rays are not only in the market for a veteran starting pitcher than can project to the starting rotation alongside Shane McClanahan, Drew Rasmussen, Ryan Pepiot, and Shane Baz — he also suggested it might be a familiar name. This makes some sense! […]
2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Dylan Lesko
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
The non-tender deadline has arrived
The MLB offseason is creeping along and with it, another important date can be marked off the calendar as today, Friday November 21st at 5pm, the deadline will pass for teams to off contracts to their arbitration eligible player or to non-tender them and thus make them free agents. Entering the offseason, the Rays had […]
Starting today, comments and Feed posts on DRaysBay will have activity notifications
When you post on SB Nation, we don’t want you to miss all the conversations and responses that follow. So starting today, whenever a user replies to your comment or to your post on the Feed, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the page. And of course, this means that when […]
Rays part with 7 players, add 7 at 2025 Rule 5 deadline
As expected, the Rays had a busy day on Tuesday ahead of the Rule 5 roster deadline. Here’s the full list, which we will get into one at a time. The Tampa Bay Rays have made the following roster moves today: – Designated OF Jake Fraley and OF Christopher Morel for assignment. – Acquired RHP […]
2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Homer Bush Jr.
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
Rays face hard choices for Tuesday’s 2025 Rule 5 Deadline
Tuesday marks the next important day in the off-season calendar, representing an important inflection point for all MLB rosters: Tuesday, Nov. 18: Rule 5 Deadline Eligible minor leaguers must be added to 40-man rosters by 6 PM EST on Nov. 18 or else teams will risk losing some minor league players in the Rule 5 Draft. […]
2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Colton Ledbetter
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
Surprise! Rays single-game tickets are now on sale for 2026
The Tampa Bay Rays have announced single-game ticket information for the 2026 season at Tropicana Field that includes additional pricing options for all fans and redesigned spaces to improve fan experience. Tropicana Field will also see various enhancements including an expanded main videoboard, new video displays behind home plate and along both foul poles, a […]
Rays trade OF Kameron Misner to the Royals
In a move that feels as much like fate as it does front-office maneuvering, the Tampa Bay Rays have traded outfielder Kameron Misner to the Kansas City Royals for a player to be named later or cash considerations. The deal, announced on Monday, sends the 27-year-old back to his home state of Missouri. Misner, a […]
Three Rays were finalists for Silver Slugger awards in 2025
Junior Caminero, Yandy Díaz and Brandon Lowe have been named American League (AL) finalists for Silver Slugger Awards at third base, designated hitter and second base, respectively. None won the award. Junior Caminero Caminero, 22, was named a finalist alongside Boston’s Alex Bregman and Cleveland’s José Ramírez. The native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic slashed .264/.311/.535 […]
Rays cut Closer Pete Fairbanks, four others
For many Rays fans, one hope for the new ownership group was that the indignities of the Stuart Sternberg era would be a thing of the past. That the team would no decline pay player contracts at or near market rates, particularly for fan favorites. Well, if that was you, today’s 40-man roster deadline is […]
Tampa Bay Rays pick up Brandon Lowe’s option for 2026
An obvious decision has been as the Tampa Bay Rays have picked up Brandon Lowe’s $11.5M option for the 2026 season. Lowe, 31, has proven that when healthy, he is among the top offensive second basemen in all of baseball and he supported that assertion in 2025 as he hit .256/.307/.477 with 31 HR over […]
Tampa Bay Rays pick up Taylor Walls 2026 option, add option for 2027
The Tampa Bay Rays are picking up Taylor Walls’ option for the 2026 season and adding an option for 2027 according to a report from Marc Topkin. Walls, 29, just finished off his 5th season on the Rays active roster. The superb defender doesn’t do much at the plate as he has produced a 70 […]
2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Maykel Coret
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Joe Rock
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
Rays cut RHP Cole Wilcox, five others, acquire UTIL Ryan Vilade from Cincinnati
The Rays announced a flurry of roster moves this afternoon, and added a utility player from the Reds Triple-A roster. Let’s get into it: Rays Designate Six The Tampa Bay Rays have made the following roster moves: – Reinstated RHP Alex Faedo and OF Stuart Fairchild from the 60-day IL and designated them for assignment. […]
Rays promote Ozzie Timmons to previous role of Assistant Hitting Coach for 2026
The Tampa Bay Rays have hired Ozzie Timmons as assistant hitting coach, the club announced today. Timmons, 55, spent the 2025 season in the Rays organization as special assistant, coaching development, after three years as the Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach (2022-24). He returns to Kevin Cash’s staff after beginning his major league coaching career as […]
MLB 2025-26 offseason calendar: Free agents, awards, Rule 5 draft, non-tenders, arbitration, and more
The dust is starting to settle on the 2025 season, and with the Yamamoto Series concluded, all players with six years of service time completed have reached free agency. For the Rays that is a limited problem, with only Adrian Houser (and, technically, Coco Montes who was Designated for Assignment in July) departing the roster. […]
Rays Reacts Results: Time for the owners to spend
This week’s poll asked an overly simplistic question. Forget nuance, I wanted a clear direction. Should the Rays operate as usual to build for 2026, or try something new: Spending Money. Here’s what y’all had to say: The Tampa Bay Rays have long operated as baseball’s perennial underdog, trading stars like David Price, Blake Snell, […]
Blake Butera, Rays Sr. Dir. Player Development, named Nationals Manager at 33
Blake Butera, famed for managing within the Rays minor league system to great success at a very young age, has been poached by the Washington Nationals to be their new manager at just 33-years old. Butera’s most recent role with the Tampa Bay Rays was as the senior director of player development, a position he […]
Rays Reacts Survey: How should the Rays acquire help on offense?
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rays fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Please take our survey
Rays Reacts Results: Extend this player now!
Junior Caminero was the resounding winner of our recent poll of which player the Rays should offer a contract extension to next. This should come as no surprise! This team’s All-Star and Home Run Derby hero is just 22 years young next season, with 45 homers, 110 RBIs, and a .264/.311/.535 slash line over 154 […]
2025 Draysbay Community Prospect Review: Jose Urbina
Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote. This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of […]
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