Joe Ryan Team USA (Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images)
Baseball will return to the Summer Olympics for the first time since 2008, and a current Tampa Bay Rays prospect will be there.
Joe Ryan, the 12th ranked prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays system, was a member of the qualifying roster for the United States of America. Ryan helped the team go 4-0 in the qualifying games last week in south Florida.
However, Ryan isn’t the only Rays connection to Team USA. Former Rays Logan Forsythe and Edwin Jackson were a part of the qualifying team as well as former first-round pick Matthew Liberatore.