According to Rays manager Kevin Cash, non-roster invite Eloy Jiménez has lost close to 25 pounds since fizzling out with the White Sox and Orioles in 2024.

The 2025 Major League Baseball Spring Training season is underway on the Suncoast. The Tampa Bay Rays made the short driver over to North Port from Punta Gorda well worth it. The Tampa Bay Rays win four to two at the Atlanta Braves home away from Georgia on the Braves opening day of Grapefruit league action.

The cost to turn George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., into a major league facility will exceed $50 million, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said.

Cristopher Sánchez walked off the mound at Charlotte Sports Park after two scoreless innings Tuesday and shared a laugh with Phillies manager Rob Thomson, jokingly asking to go back out. “I was just joking with him,

The start time for Monday's spring training game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox has been moved because of expected heavy rainfall, foreshadowing what the Tampa Bay Rays might have to deal with this season as they play a season outdoors.

Carl Crawford patrolled left field for the Tampa Bay Rays for nine seasons. The Rays moved their spring training home to Charlotte Sports Park in 2009, when Crawford was toward the end of his tenure with the team and his son Justin was 5 years old.

Mason Englert worked as a starter for Texas Rangers, but Detroit Tigers converted him to a reliever. Drew Sommers was in High-A Bowling Green in 2024.

The MLB is not rolling out robot umpires for every game this spring, but they will be in play for Friday’s matchup Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Y

The Red Sox signed Matt Moore to a minor league deal on Thursday. Moore, a former All-Star all the way back in 2013 with the Tampa Bay Rays, has rebuilt himself as a relief pitcher in the second act of his career.

Matt Moore is a decade removed from being an All-Star starter for the Tampa Bay Rays, but the veteran has shown enough flashes as a reliever that the Boston Red Sox were willing to take a flier on him.

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