It’s time for another edition of This Week in Rays Baseball — the first in some time. I digress. First on the docket, details on the Rays previously announced renovation of Tropicana Field have surfaced. They’re planning what is being called a 360-degree “interior stadium fan access” with the creation of walkways behind the outfield seating …
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Rays Making Major Improvements to Tropicana Field (Re-posted From DRaysBay)
The Rays announced they’ll be making significant improvements to Tropicana Field, presumably ahead of the 2014 season. On the list of improvements, are extended walkways around the outfield, and replacing the center-field restaurant with an open-air patio. Now if they’d only lop off the top and replace it with a retractable roof, and lay down some sod. On the subject of those renovations, Daniel Russell of DRaysBay notes:
Wil Myers Wins AL Rookie of the Year, Braves Get A New Stadium, and Other Random Bits of Ephemera
Wil Myers has been named the 2013 AL Rookie of the Year, beating out fellow teammate Chris Archer and the Detroit Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias. Myers, the Rays’ third AL Rookie of the Year in the past six seasons, received 23 of 30 first place votes, while Iglesias came in second with five votes and Archer scratched the surface with one vote. The Marlins’ Jose Fernandez won the award on the NL side, to which we retort, “Ha ha, Puig!”
Hot-Stove: Kriseman Wins, Oviedo’s Option Declined, and More
Bill Foster’s rein of error came to an end last night after Rick Kriseman beat the incumbent by a 12 point margin. During the race to become mayor, Kriseman acknowledged the throng of issues he’s tasked with fixing, including (but not limited to) the Pier, curbside recycling, economic redevelopment in Midtown, and the Stadium Saga.
Hot-Stove: Rays Exercise Option On David DeJesus and Offer a Two-Year Contract Extension
On the heals of news that the Rays decided to exercise the $6.5MM option on outfielder David DeJesus, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times writes they have agreed to a new two-year contract that will cover the 2014-15 seasons, including a club option for the 2016 season. The terms of the contract are unknown.