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The 2008 season saw the Tampa Bay Rays post their first winning season, their first AL East championship, and their first American League pennant (defeating the rival Boston Red Sox in the ALCS), though they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in that year's World Series. Since then, the Rays have played in the postseason in 2010, 2011, 2013 ...
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 ...
The team was originally known as the "Tampa Bay Devil Rays", which was inspired by a common nickname of the manta ray, but after the 2007 season, they shortened their official name to the "Tampa Bay Rays." [2] Tampa Bay made their Major League debut in 1998, where they were an expansion team. [3] For their first ten seasons, Tampa Bay struggled ...
Major League Baseball wants to find a 2025 home for the Tampa Bay Rays by Christmas. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said both the major and minor league schedules could be altered to create ...
The future of the Tampa Bay Rays is about to come into clearer focus as local officials begin public discussions over a planned $1.3 billion ballpark that would be the anchor of a much larger ...
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, an American League expansion team in 1998, assumed the Orlando Rays' major-league affiliation the following year. The Orlando Rays' last season at Tinker Field was 1999. From 2000 to 2003, the Orlando Rays played in Lake Buena Vista, Florida , in Champion Stadium at Walt Disney World Resort .
For the first and perhaps only time in their history, the Rays will play home games in Tampa proper, having occupied St. Petersburg's Tropicana Field since their inaugural season of 1998.
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared in at least one game for the Tampa Bay Rays franchise, formerly known as the Devil Rays. Players in Bold are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Players in Italics have had their numbers retired by the team.