Why the Rays are smarter than Yankees and Red Sox

The Rays have about a quarter of the payrolls of the Red Sox and Yankees, but that didn’t stop them from winning 96 games in the same division. Why are the Rays the smartest team in baseball?

The Yankees were better than the Rays last year. They are the defending AL East Champions they did beat us by seven games. The Yankees have 27 World Series Championships to their name and the Rays have zero.

Since the Rays’ inaugural season in 1998, the Yankees have won four World Series titles.

Many of the game’s greatest players donned the pinstripes of the illustrious Bronx Bombers. Legendary players that played for the Rays were either at the end of their careers or traded away by the penny-pinching…