We’re back! After a holiday break, the DRaysBay Podcast Network is back to normally scheduled offseason programming. We just happened to miss one of the biggest trades in franchise history during that break, so Darby and I are here to talk all about it.
A Blake Snell trade was inevitable. Whether it happened now, next year, or the year after that, there was no reality in which Blake Snell pitched with the Rays past the end of this current contract. Despite that knowledge, a good chunk of the Rays fanbase (myself included) were completely blindsided by the news of this trade.