Hillsborough County officials have been very discrete about their efforts to find a site for baseball on this side of the Bay. That all changed last week with County Commissioner Ken Hagan’s announcement that a site had been chosen, with 14 acres of land optioned for potential stadium development.
Now the Tampa Bay Times has a list of all eight sites the county reviewed and shared with the Rays, and each has an image of an existing ballpark photoshopped in so that it is clear how a stadium could be positioned. (In the article, reporter Steve Contorno does not reveal how he got this information, so it’s not clear whether County officials decided to share it or it became available in some other way).