OAKLAND, Calif. — The team that took the field Wednesday night for the Rays was different from the one that walked off celebrating a win Tuesday. Which was altered from the one that played Sunday at the Trop. Which had a slightly tweaked look than the squad that was in uniform Saturday. Which was considerably changed from the group that had assembled Friday, before the latest big trade that sent Alex Colome and Denard Span to Seattle.
In two months, this already has been a Rays season of a lot of things.
Most notably, the innovation — or, as some prefer, the idiocy — of two radical and somewhat revolutionary pitching plans.