The Rays are coming off a six-game World Series run, but are also in something of a 90-win rebuild year.
With finances tightening the Rays moved on from Charlie Morton so they could keep their core assets together, and hoped the market would come to them. The market did, and it demanded Blake Snell at a price the Rays could not refuse.
The result is a good team in need of more moves.
Part of that equation is most assuredly finding top flight pitching to compliment Tyler Glasnow, Ryan Yarbrough, Michael Wacha, Luis Patiño, and eventually Brendan McKay.