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Hillsborough official to Rays: Your move on Ybor stadium deal

TAMPA - Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill says the next move in the effort to build a Ybor City ballpark belongs to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Merrill sent a memo to county commissioners late Friday outlining the framework of a possible deal.

On Monday, he said the county needs to know what the Rays think. Do they approve or disapprove? Do they have a counter-proposal? What do they want to change and what do they want to keep?

"We're kind of at that point," Merrill said. "Our mission was to build a framework for a deal and this is the best we could come up with.