Welcome back to our series deciding the best team in Rays history with a little help from our good friends at OOTP Baseball 21, the best baseball sim on the market.
When we last met, we covered the six play-in games to leave us with a clean 16 different iterations of Rays rosters. In Round 1, there was so much action—and so much chaotic action—that it demanded two articles written up by DRB Rays historian, Adam Sanford.
In Part 1 of this breakdown, we’ll cover four of the eight first-round matchups:
2007 v 2008
2009 v 2017
2000 v 2013
2004 v 2011
Just a friendly reminder, these are seven-game series with end-of-season rosters in effect.