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  2. Expansion of Major League Baseball - Wikipedia

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    The Montreal Expos, a 1969 expansion team, played for 36 seasons in the NL East before relocating to Washington, D.C., in 2004, becoming the Washington Nationals. In 2019, the Rays received permission to explore splitting their seasons between Tampa Bay and Montreal. [69] MLB rejected the Rays' plan in January 2022. [70]

  3. Tampa Bay Rays - Wikipedia

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    The Tampa Bay area has a long association with amateur and professional baseball. Tampa and St. Petersburg were among the first hosts of Major League Baseball spring training in the 1910s, the Tampa Smokers and St. Petersburg Saints were two of the founding members of the minor league Florida State League (FSL) in 1919, and several other communities in the area also hosted FSL teams in the ...

  4. Major League Baseball is near expansion, and Nashville's ...

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    Nashville SC would be a USL team if John Ingram hadn’t stepped in to fuel the city’s Major League Soccer bid with plans to build GEODIS Park. Asked about finding that owner (or owners) in 2024 ...

  5. 1993 Major League Baseball expansion - Wikipedia

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    Tampa Bay already had a baseball park — the Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, completed in 1990. On June 10, 1990, Huizenga was awarded an expansion franchise in the National League (NL) for a $95 million expansion fee and the team began operations in 1993 as the Florida Marlins.

  6. MLB free agency: Why some teams haven’t done much yet this ...

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    Baltimore, Tampa Bay and the Athletics are the only American League clubs currently projected to enter 2025 with lower payrolls than Detroit’s measly $104 million figure.

  7. Expansion team - Wikipedia

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    An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally.

  8. Rays on fourth stadium proposal in the Tampa Bay area - AOL

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    In 2007, the team proposed a new stadium on Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg that would've been built where Al Lang Stadium is located. The open-air, yet retractable roof stadium would've seated 34,000 ...

  9. Rays–Red Sox rivalry - Wikipedia

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    The Rays–Red Sox rivalry is a Major League Baseball (MLB) rivalry between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox clubs. The rivalry intensified in 2008, after the two clubs had their first postseason meeting in the ALCS. Since then, both teams have won the American League (AL) East division a combined