It’s no secret that the Tampa Bay Rays will be looking to improve their bullpen this offseason. The bullpen as a whole finished with a 4.09 ERA in 506.1 innings pitched. Good for 21st in the league and while ERA isn’t everything when it comes to relief pitching, it was likely a result of poor depth.
The Rays team defense probably didn’t do the bullpen any favors either as they regressed tremendously and not having Kevin Kiermaier for an extended time was a huge hit as well.
While Alex Colome was outstanding in 2016 there weren’t enough quality arms in front of him to to get high leverage outs.