The Royals face the Tampa Bay Rays this week, a team that has been around for 20 years now. The two teams have split the 146 games they have played against each other so far, although the Rays have won 11 of the last 14.
Over two decades ago, MLB decided to expand to the Tampa-St. Petersburg area and in Phoenix, just a few years after expanding to Miami in Colorado in 1993. The move was done to settle a lawsuit brought by Vince Namoli, who was blocked from relocating the San Francisco Giants to the Tampa area, one of a number of times MLB thwarted relocation efforts to the area.