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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]
The Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays, two teams with significant, sustained attendance issues, have stadium leases up in a few years (A's in 2024, Rays in 2027). Both want new stadiums but ...
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 ...
Nashville’s effort lacks a controlling owner to help cover the $2 billion (or more) expansion fee and the price tag of a new stadium that would have to be constructed between now and the team ...
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred made one thing clear: An MLB expansion team is not coming to Nashville — or anywhere — anytime soon. Manfred said during his annual ...
Gas Plant Stadium is a planned indoor ballpark in St. Petersburg, Florida.If constructed, it will serve as the home of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. [1] [2] The construction cost is estimated to be $1.3 billion and the total cost to public will be $1.5 billion.
Tampa Bay was rumored to be a front-runner when MLB expanded by two teams in 1991, but Miami and Denver were chosen instead. [13] Finally, in March 1995, St. Petersburg was awarded a major league expansion franchise along with Phoenix. [14] The Tampa Bay Rays began play as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in newly renamed Tropicana Field in 1998.
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 ...