News item:
.@RaysBaseball announce this morning they are closing the upper deck of the Trop and reducing capacity for games there to between 25K and 26K, further reducing what was already the smallest capacity in MLB.
— Eric Fisher (@EricFisherSBJ) January 4, 2019
Now, this reduction in capacity will likely not affect the Rays total attendance. Despite contending for an A.L. wild-card spot in 2018 and winning 90 games, the Rays drew a crowd of 30,000 or more just once last year — Opening Day vs. the Red Sox.