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Tampa Bay Rays: Why Blake Snell Will Get the Opening Day Nod

On March 26th nearly 30,000 fans will pile into Tropicana Field eager to usher in one of the most anticipated seasons in Tampa Bay Rays history. Just four months prior, a good number of those same fans likely attended the final home game of the season, Game 4 of the ALDS. Blake Snell recorded the first save of his career that day and sent his Rays back to Houston for a Game 5 showdown.

After failing to find consistency in 2019 due to a handful of injuries, Blake Snell found his footing prior to October baseball, and in the ALDS he looked like the Blake Snell that took the baseball world by storm in 2018 en route to his first CY Young award.