A few days after the Rays 2022 season concluded, Rays president of baseball operations Erik Neander and manager Kevin Cash made themselves available for a media session to reflect on the season past and share ideas about the offseason to come.
First, it certainly seems that the front office recognizes that there is room for improvement offensively. From Neander:
“I don’t think it’s in us to just stand pat and assume things will get better. There’s an acknowledgement that, our standards offensively, we want to raise them.”
Neander also touched on the fact that young players may have been overexposed in 2022:
“Ideally, we find a little bit of a better balance (between young and experienced players).