As spring training starts to come to a close, the Tampa Bay Rays are getting prepared for what they hope will be a successful campaign in 2026. The 2025 season was a challenging one for the Rays right from the jump, with the team knowing that they were going to be displaced from their home stadium for the entire year.
Junior Caminero is taking advantage of the World Baseball Classic stage with Team Dominican Republic. Caminero blasted one deep home run nearly 10 days ago that helped force the mercy rule.
There are some questions for the Rays as spring training winds down, but one thing is clear: their pitching staff will be a strength. The organization has a stellar reputation for developing pitchers.
With the World Baseball Classic set to wrap up soon, Opening Day is right around the corner for the Tampa Bay Rays. This spring training has been a busy one as always, and the roster looks to be taking shape. This winter, the Rays were a very active team as always.
There are a lot of question marks about the Tampa Bay Rays and how much offensive production they are going to get from their lineup. A lineup that wasn’t overly productive last year lost arguably its best left-handed bat in the offseason.
As Spring Training opens for 2026, all 30 teams have high hopes and big questions. These are the storylines to follow for each team heading into Opening Day.
The Tampa Bay Rays announced plans for the fourth season of Rays Gaming, presented by Webull, the Official Online Brokerage of the Rays. Season four of Rays Gaming will begin with the Creator Showdown.
This week we asked two Rays specific questions related to the WBC. First up, I was curious to see how much of our readership was invested in watching the WBC, even in the early rounds.
With the start of the season right around the corner, the Tampa Bay Rays will be hopeful to snap a two-year playoff drought. In order to accomplish that, they will need key players to perform well. Following a very busy winter for the Rays, the team is getting set to finalize what their roster is going to look like on Opening Day.
Heading into the 2026 MLB regular season, there are going to be a lot of eyes on Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero. He is one of the most talented young stars currently in the sport, who broke out with a monster campaign in 2025.
In November, the Tampa Bay Rays and Kansas City Royals agreed to a trade. On Friday, the teams officially completed the deal, the Rays announced. “The Tampa Bay Rays have acquired minor league RHP Matthew Hoskins from the Kansas City Royals as the player to be named to complete the Nov.
As the Tampa Bay Rays get set for Opening Day, their roster is starting to take shape, and one of the position battles in the outfield might be becoming clearer. With the World Baseball Classic and spring training both ongoing simultaneously, there has been no shortage of baseball going on.
The 2026 MLB season is right around the corner, and it is never too early to start thinking about how it might unfold. Seemingly, every year, we have a decent handle on who should contend and who is likely to struggle, which makes looking ahead to the trade deadline inevitable.
The Tampa Bay Rays have two weeks until Opening Day against the St. Louis Cardinals, and their roster is beginning to round into shape. With players beginning to return to camp from the World Baseball Classic, moves are starting to be made with the spring training roster.
The Rays gave up quite a bit to acquire Ben Williamson this offseason. They parted ways with a 4th OF profile in Colton Ledbetter and a Comp B pick. Coming into Spring Training, the expectation for Williamson seemed fairly straightforward: compete for a utility infielder role.
With the start of the regular season right around the corner for the Tampa Bay Rays, how they will shape their roster is starting to take place. This winter was a busy one for the Rays.
As the Tampa Bay Rays get set for the start of the regular season, they will be relying on some key players to perform well if they are going to be a contender in 2026. Coming off missing the playoffs the last two years, the Rays are undoubtedly hungry to get back to the postseason.
Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero exploded onto the scene last year, his first full season as a Major Leaguer. He put together one of the most productive seasons for someone as young as him, launching 45 home runs and recording 110 RBI in his age-21 campaign.
Tampa Bay Rays’ reliever Griffin Jax, along with Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher and Team USA teammate Paul Skenes, coordinated to bring the Air Force baseball team to Houston, Texas, to attend Team USA’s game against Mexico, a game in which Team USA won 5-3.
MLB prospecting is in a great place. We have a generational talent in Konnor Griffin eyeing an Opening Day debut. Our number two-ranked prospect, Kevin McGonigle, is in a similar boat.
The catching position has been an area of weakness for the Rays over their entire existence. In recent years, that has become an extreme truth. Since 2022, the team has had the eighth-lowest fWAR for the position in the majors.
As has become tradition over the past two decades, the Rays tweaked their roster considerably over the winter. Not only did the Rays move on from well-known players but Tampa also brought in veteran talent to complement a good, young core heading into the 2026 season.
Team Dominican Republic dominated Team Netherlands in World Baseball Classic play, earning a 12-1 mercy rule win over seven innings. Helping lead the charge was Tampa Bay Rays infielder Junior Caminero.
The Guerreros de Oaxaca of the Mexican League announced that they have signed right-hander Joey Krehbiel to a contract for the 2026 season. Krehbiel (who turned 33 in December) elected to become a minor league free agent in November after spending the 2025 season pitching with the Rays’ and Royals’ Triple-A affiliates.
The Tampa Bay Rays might’ve found their next spark plug. Quietly. Patiently. And now, loudly, with Theo Gillen trending inside big league camp. The 20-year-old outfielder, drafted 18th overall in 2024 out of Westlake High in Austin, is now the No.