After a flurry of moves by the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, the team is starting to take shape, and how the 40-man roster will look in 2026 is becoming clearer.
Even though the offseason has just started, the Rays have already been a very active team. Tampa Bay made a bunch of moves on Tuesday night to begin to get the framework of their roster in place. This is a team that is hoping to bounce back from a bad second half of the season, and they have a strong core of talent in place to accomplish that.
However, even though the Rays had a positive run differential in 2025, they finished eight games under .500 in the very challenging American League East. The division isn’t going to be getting any easier, and Tampa Bay is going to have to make some improvements if they want to be a contender.
With a couple of positions of need, it will be interesting to see how the Rays look to allocate their assets across a few different areas. One position that has been talked about as a place where they could use some help is at catcher. However, with options usually limited, they could look to an internal option to help improve.
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