The Tampa Bay Rays are off to an 11-3 start. They’re the only team in the vaunted American League East above .500, and they have a five and a half game lead on the second-place Yankees. They have overtaken the Red Sox on FanGraphs’ projected full season standings, and they have surpassed both the Yankees and the Red Sox by Baseball Prospectus’ playoff percentages. They have the lowest ERA (2.27), lowest FIP (2.74), and lowest xFIP (3.33) in all of baseball. As our own JT Morgan wrote this week, they have also been pounding the cover off the ball, with an exit velocity that ranked second in baseball to only the group of goliaths gathered in Gotham.
The Rays offense has been amazing so far; it could be even better
