The Tampa Bay Rays were the best team in the American League last year, both in the regular season as baseball’s No. 1 seed, and in the playoffs as the ALCS champions.
Tampa Bay took the historically great 2020 Dodgers to six games in the World Series and underperformed along the way. The Rays were good, they could have performed better, and now they’re looking to upgrade — at any cost.
Particularly entering a year of great revenue uncertainty.
We have no idea what the global pandemic will do to baseball in 2021. It was a miracle the season happened at all last year, it was a miracle the World Series was even completed.