Rays News and Links: Last place Rays are eighth best team in American League

As the headline above says, the Rays might be fifth place (a.k.a. last) in the American League East, but in the League as a whole, they rank eighth in terms of ELO -- above the New York Yankees.

This ranking comes courtesy of FiveThirtyEight, who still give the Rays slightly worse odds than New York at finding the playoffs.

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The Yankees (27-30) have played one more game than the Rays (26-30) thus far, and have one more win.