In the midst of the MLB GM meetings the subject of a Rays rebuild has been raised by writers ranging from Marc Topkin to Ken Rosenthal. Maybe these are just the meanderings of bored sports writers, because they seem to be calling for the Rays to deal away some of the best - and most affordable - talent they’ve ever had.
Writers proposing a sell-off are likely to point to a need to maximize assets and to add youth to an already youthful core (as indicated in series of Tweets eembedded below and refenced in JT Morgan’s article this morning).