The Tampa Bay Rays have always been a great television product, and this year having a competitive team in the AL East has helped their case.
The Rays are contenders, and have started acting like it by adding top notch defensive SS Adeiny Hechavarria in a trade completed Monday afternoon.
Hechavarria made his debut last night in Pittsburgh on a busy night in the local television market, and the Tampa Bay community was tuned in:
The Rays ranked 13th in the US among baseball teams last season, according to the Nielsen ratings for 2016, which showed a drop in their overall position due to a poor run of things in the second half.