Steve Kinsella has been doing an excellent series on the Rays’ slow-rolling rebuild over the greater part of a the past decade, and he’s now up to 2015, when Matt Silverman took over baseball operations. This section includes the trades of Rays mainstays like Ben Zobrist, Matt Joyce, Jeremy Hellickson, Jake McGee, Joel Peralta, and the newly-arrived Wil Myers.
The series is a must read.
- Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred wants to introduce new pace of play rules, including 20-second pitch clocks, but the players union has rejected the measures.