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MLB Information: One Rays Relocation Proposal Emerges After One other Metropolis Drops Out

The offseason has not begun, yet already one of baseball’s biggest free agents has drawn more speculation than anyone could have foreseen a month ago: the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays will not be able to begin the 2025 season at Tropicana Field, the stadium they have called home since the franchise’s inception in 1998

MLB Information: One Rays Relocation Proposal Emerges After One other Metropolis Drops Out

The offseason has not begun, but already one in every of baseball’s largest free brokers has drawn extra hypothesis than anybody might have foreseen a month in the past: the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Rays won’t be able to start the 2025 season at Tropicana Area, the stadium they’ve referred to as dwelling because the franchise’s inception in 1998, due to damages incurred by Hurricane Milton. Two questions loom over the now-roofless indoor stadium: how lengthy will it take to restore, and does town of St. Petersburg (which owns the venue) have the money and the persistence to restore it?

Extra information: One Potential Rays Relocation Site Withdraws From Consideration

No matter Tropicana’s long-term future, the short-term future is obvious: the Rays want a brand new dwelling.

Tampa Bay Rays Tropicana Field Hurricane Milton
ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA – APRIL 09: An aerial view exhibits a normal view of Tropicana Area earlier than a sport between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees on April 09, 2021 in St…

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That has prompted hypothesis from far and vast about the place the group ought to relocate.

Pinellas County Commissioner Chris Latvala advocated the group keep inside the county the Rays name dwelling.

Philadelphia 76ers govt Daryl Morey recommended Canada, writing on his Twitter/X account: “I say Toronto to finish the house swap settlement with the Raptors.” The Raptors performed in Tampa in the course of the pandemic-interrupted 2020 NBA season.

I say Toronto to finish the house swap settlement with the Raptors

— Daryl Morey 🗽🏀 (@dmorey) October 16, 2024

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In the meantime, a column that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday advocated for a brand new venue that might give the Windy Metropolis three Main League Baseball groups, together with the White Sox and Cubs.

Extra information: Rays Might Not Have Tropicana Field Repaired In Time For 2025 MLB Season

A pop-up baseball subject on The 78, a 62-acre South Loop web site the place the Chicago White Sox additionally wish to construct a brand new stadium, might be transformed for non permanent main league use, writes Paul Sullivan:

All it will want is a group, a construction seating about 12,000 followers and a few ahead pondering by the Rays, MLB, town of Chicago, and the 78 builders.

The proposal comes days after a spokesperson for Montreal’s Olympic Stadium confirmed the venue wouldn’t be playable in 2025.

Extra information: Rays Issue Heartfelt Statement About Hurricane Milton Damage to Tropicana Field

“Till 2028, the sphere of play might be inside a development web site and due to this fact not open to the general public,” stadium communications officer Anik Parisé told the Tampa Bay Times through electronic mail.

Montreal had been seen as a well-liked vacation spot as a result of in 2019 the Rays explored a “sister metropolis” partnership with Montreal through which the Rays would play a few of their dwelling video games within the Expos’ former metropolis. MLB finally rejected that plan.

For extra MLB information, go to Newsweek Sports.

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