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Tampa Bay Rays ace pitcher Blake Snell is no fan of the idea of playing high-risk baseball for less money. In fact, when it comes to the question of risking infection while playing under MLB’s proposed revenue sharing model, Snell says: “It’s just not worth it.”

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are the first Major League Baseball team known to plan furloughs of some full-time employees because of the coronavirus pandemic, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

A sports bettor has been charged with sending hundreds of threatening messages to college and pro athletes over social media.

Police investigators say that the man accused of murdering a minor league baseball player’s wife, child, and mother-in-law, may have had “religious motivations.”

The Miami Marlins used the death of “The Crocodile Hunter,” Steve Irwin, in a Twitter feud with their in-state rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays.

Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) has heard of the Tampa Bay Rays plans to split their home games between Tampa and Montreal, and he is no fan of that proposal.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ex-Rays? Starved for fans despite success on the field, the Tampa Bay Rays have been given the go-ahead by Major League Baseball to look into playing a split season in Montreal.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — Grueling, late-night road trips are a loathed hallmark of minor league baseball, and most ballplayers can’t wait to leave bus life behind.

The St. Louis Cardinals have traded outfielder Tommy Pham to the Tampa Bay Rays for three minor league players, outfielder Justin Williams, left-handed pitcher Genesis Cabrera and right-handed pitcher Roel Ramirez.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — About the only thing Gary Sanchez was quick to do Monday night was accept the blame for his lack of effort.

Hall of Famer and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy has helped raise funds to have a Confederate monument removed from a downtown Tampa courthouse. Now, after Dungy asked his former team for help with the effort, the Buccaneers have contributed as well.

The Tampa Bay Rays have thrown their support behind the effort to destroy the city’s 106-year-old Confederate monument.

This weekend a man showed his displeasure with the Tampa Bay Rays recent trip to play a game in Cuba by jumping on the field and hurling a full can of beer into their dugout during the seventh inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, Florida.

President Barack Obama was greeted Tuesday by cheers as he entered Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, the site where the Tampa Bay Rays are taking on Cuba’s national baseball team. This trip to Cuba is the first by an MLB team since the Baltimore

While talking about the upcoming Tampa Bay Rays game against the Cuban national baseball team on the Tuesday broadcast of “Mike and Mike” on ESPN Radio, ESPN’s Dan Le Batard said the fact that an American baseball team went over to

President Obama spoke briefly about the terrorist attacks in Brussels today, but will not let the events in Europe derail his schedule in Cuba.

The Tampa Bay Rays play the Cuban National Team on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in an exhibition game in Latinoamericano Stadium in Havana. Maybe next year the Cuban government permits their baseball team to travel to Tropicana Field in St. Pete to even this up as a home-and-home series. It would save fuel costs for a return trip, after all, and Cuba, like its army of prostitutes, really, really needs the money.

In a press conference Monday, Tampa Bay Rays star third baseman Evan Longoria discussed his team’s upcoming game in Havana against the Cuban national team, saying the common denominator between the United States and Cuba is the love of baseball. “I think

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners and Tampa Bay Rays have completed the first significant trade of the offseason, a six-player swap that sends infielder Brad Miller, first baseman Logan Morrison and pitcher Danny Farquhar to Tampa Bay for pitchers Nathan Karns and C.J. Riefenhauser, and minor league outfielder Boog Powell.