Twelve players from last year’s Tampa Bay Rays are no longer with the team. Of their top fourteen likely offensive players, three are new to the Rays this season.
Manager Kevin Cash is tasked with the job of getting to know each player and how they will fit in the Rays’ rotations and platoons. The Rays continue to find success by maximizing production out of each player. Let’s take a look at Cash’s newest options and how they fit in with the existing team.
Keep in mind, wRC+ is a metric that attempts to measure weighted runs created with a score of 100 being league average.