ST. PETERSBURG -- Two days before the Rays open the season against the Yankees, Chris Archer stood in front of his locker at Tropicana Field and expressed his belief that Tampa Bay has the right stuff to return to prominence in 2017.
"I think we're super-talented," Archer said. "We need to remain healthy, and we have a few guys who need to get healthy. And that will happen in due time. But with our ability to pitch and the upgrades that we've made as of late, they've been talking the whole offseason that they're going to go out and try to get guys to make us better defensively and on the offensive side.