Tampa Bay Rays Tickets

The Tampa Bay Rays play their home games at Tropicana Field.

The Rays organization has only retired three numbers to date, and those are Jackie Robinson's #42, which is retired by every team across the MLB, Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs' #12, as he recorded his 3000th hit with the Tampa Bay franchise and later retired as a Ray and served as the team's hitting coach, and former senior baseball advisor and longtime Tampa-area resident Don Zimmer's #66. Zimmer spent 56 years in Major League Baseball as a player, coach, and manager.

https://www.tickpick.com/mlb/new-york-yankees-tickets/>New York Yankees, who play their home games at Yankee Stadium, and the Boston Red Sox, who play their home games at Fenway Park.

Coming into the 2021 season, the Rays have one of the best farm systems in baseball yet again. This prospect list is headed by the consensus top prospect in baseball, switch-hitting 20-year-old shortstop Wander Franco, who projects as a superstar for Tampa and should make an impact sometime later this season. Another top prospect of theirs is starting pitcher Luis Patino, the top prize in the return for former Cy Young winner Blake Snell, whom the team dealt away to San Diego in the offseason. Patino also projects to help the major league club in 2021, and should provide a nice boost to their starting staff down the stretch. Their third-ranked prospect is middle infielder Vidal Brujan, who has incredible speed that should help him steal plenty of bases for Tampa and provide excellent defense at a premium spot that will likely end up being second base due to Franco's impending presence.

The Rays have been remarkably successful as a franchise over the years despite consistently ranking near the bottom five or so teams in the league in payroll. They nearly won their first World Series last October but fell just short in six games, and they have an uphill battle to make it back after losing excellent starting pitchers Blake Snell via trade and Charlie Morton in free agency, but have some excellent prospects ready to come up and contribute to fortify an already strong lineup. We foresee the Rays being right in the thick of the playoff hunt this season, despite playing in a crowded AL East, and don't be surprised to see them playing deep into October once again against all payroll-related odds.

The manager of the defending American League champions is former MLB catcher Kevin Cash, who is entering his seventh year as Tampa Bay's skipper in 2021. Despite consistently managing a club with one of the game's bottom five payrolls, Cash has manage the team to overachieve nearly every year, getting the franchise all the way to the World Series in 2020 before falling just short to the Dodgers in six games. Cash has helped normalize using "openers" to start games for the club and has won in unorthodox fashion out of necessity during his managerial career.

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