Over the past couple of weeks we’ve taken a couple looks at trends on the offensive and run prevention side of the 2018 Rays. Today, let’s use The Baseball Gauge to look at some over the macro, roster-level trends for our lovable boys in blue for the past season.
Youth Rules the Day
By overall age, there was only one team younger than the Rays in 2018 - the Philadelphia Phillies. The Rays average age of 27.4 was exactly one year younger than the club’s average age in 2017 (28.