2018 Rays in Review: Part 1 – Humbling Beginnings

2018 was a roller-coaster season for the Tampa Bay Rays, there were roaring highs, and bitter lows. In this new series, we will recap the past season piece by piece and examine players and decisions with the benefit of hindsight, and use this season as a key reference for 2019.

Boy oh boy, where to begin when trying to review the most interesting season in Tampa Bay Rays’ history? This season was filled with incredible victories, crushing defeats, unlikely heroes and a brand new way of utilizing pitchers, but before we get to any of that, it would seem that the best place to start is in December 2017, where an offseason trade drastically altered the Rays’ whole trajectory as an organisation,…