{"id":536766,"date":"2026-04-02T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:37:26","slug":"yankees-show-support-for-rays-in-tampa-stadium-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536766\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees show support for Rays in Tampa stadium pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays division rivals, the New York Yankees, are backing the Rays push to build a new stadium right next to their spring training facility.<\/p>\n<p>Steinbrenner Field is located next to Hillsborough College and Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t go anywhere if the Rays do end up building a stadium in that area.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees released a statement saying they support the construction of a new ballpark next door as long as it doesn&#8217;t impact funding for other sports venues in the area \u2014 including theirs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maintaining and enhancing all of our venues in a first-class fashion should remain a priority for ensuring the sustained ascent of Hillsborough County and the greater Tampa Bay region,&#8221; the team&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time the Yankees have shown support for their rival.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Yankees allowed the Rays to re-fashion Steinbrenner Field with Rays signage and play the entirety of the 2025 season there while Tropicana Field was being repaired from the 2024 hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays division rivals, the New York Yankees, are backing the Rays push to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1250,5,189,40,4,16720,4093,43,187,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-536766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-lightning","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-rays-stadium","14":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116335859772844338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}