The goal of a baseball team, generally, is to be great, and most teams are happy with being good, but if you can’t be great or good then the next best accomplishment is to be average and interesting. That’s the 2018 Rays.
With many of their top starting pitchers (Brent Honeywell, Jake Faria, Nathan Eovaldi, Jose de Leon, Anthony Banda, and others) losing time this season to injury, the Rays have fascinated (and sometimes enraged) the baseball world by trying out new strategies to put their available, second-tier pitchers in a position to succeed.