This certainly isn’t the worst team in franchise history. Heck, they have already broken the 70 win barrier which is rarified air for most of those Devil Rays seasons.
But is there any doubt left this has been the most exhausting and overall dispiriting season in franchise history? If you like adversity, this might be the season for you.
Anyway, I bring that up because on the day the team, fans, and baseball world found out Shane McClanahan will not only miss all of this year, but all of 2024, the Rays delivered another lifeless game where the bats continued to seem ready for the agony that is existence in baseball in the year 2023 to end.