The Tampa Bay Rays waited and waited to make their offer to former Orioles catcher Matt Wieters, hoping that since there seemed to be little or no movement for his services from other teams they would have a chance.
Any chance for signing Wieters ended as Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports reported that a deal was in place with the Washington Nationals. Wieters new deal lands him just a stone’s throw away from Baltimore, playing in the Nation’s Capital for the next two years for a reported $21 million as Tweeted by Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.