Just when the Tampa Bay Rays thought they had formed a solid infield for next year, Matt Duffy went down to surgery on his cranky Achilles.
However, Duffy will be ready for next season but in the meantime, the group is missing valuable playing time as a unit.
Since the season must go on the Tampa Bay Rays needed a stopgap at shortstop.
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They had a number of options to temporarily replace Duffy, but I think they did right with this acquisition by signing free agent Alexei Ramirez.