{"id":97054,"date":"2020-10-25T04:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T01:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sorry-yankees-youll-be-dealing-with-rays-for-years-to-come\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T04:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T01:59:34","slug":"sorry-yankees-youll-be-dealing-with-rays-for-years-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sorry-yankees-youll-be-dealing-with-rays-for-years-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sorry Yankees, you’ll be dealing with Rays for years to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Sorry Yankees, you’ll be dealing with Rays for years to come<\/strong>”
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\n ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 How long before the Yankees get a break from the Rays? <\/p>\n

These Rays are young, talented and largely under control. Three guys on their World Series<\/a> roster \u2014 Aaron Loup, Charlie Morton and Mike Zunino \u2014 can be free agents this winter, and the Rays hold team options on Morton and Zunino. After that trio, no one else from these 28 players can be a free agent after 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think \u2026 most people understand that we do have a young core,\u201d Rays starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow, who can\u2019t go anywhere of his own volition until the 2023-24 offseason, said Saturday, before World Series Game<\/a> 4 at Globe Life Field. \u201cEven the Dodgers have been together for so many years, they\u2019ve kind of developed that leadership role, so many guys. I do think we have a lot of good years ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

What constitutes \u201ca lot\u201d? Recent baseball history \u2014 let\u2019s call it the Luxury Tax Era, starting in 1996 \u2014 has taught us that clubs with tiny payrolls (general<\/a>ly in the bottom sixth, ranking somewhere between 26th and 30th) hold a shelf life of contention, and that at some point, these little engines that could require a stop to rest and refuel.<\/p>\n

The Rays, terrible for their first decade (1998 to 2007), are in Year 3 of Run 2. Run 1 ran from 2008 through 2013, during which they qualified for the playoffs four times and the World Series once (they lost to the Phillies in 2008). Then they posted four straight losing records, during which they broke in their current manager Kevin Cash and head of baseball operations Erik Neander after Joe Maddon and Andrew Friedman, having established their bona fides in Run 1, departed for the big-market Cubs and Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Six years falls two years short of what Billy Beane\u2019s Athletics accomplished when they posted winning records from 1999 through 2006, reaching the playoffs five times in that span (alas, no World Series app<\/a>earances). The A\u2019s finished .500 or worse for the subsequent five seasons, made the postseason every year from 2012 through 2014, registered another three consecutive losing records and competed in their third straight October this year. Whew! Like the elevator operator in \u201cMr. Deeds\u201d said about his job, being an A\u2019s fan has its ups and downs.<\/p>\n

The limits can be attached to two long standing baseball rules: Service time and the draft. Players must accrue six years of major-league service before they attain eligibility for free agency, and tiny-payroll clubs simply can\u2019t afford to retain most of their guys into their free agency years; the A\u2019s did it with Eric Chavez and the Rays with Evan Longoria, and the Rays bought out Blake Snell\u2019s first year of free agency, 2023. And the draft goes in reverse order of record, meaning that the better you finish, the longer you must wait before you get your first pop at incoming amateur talent. Beane\u2019s first A\u2019s run not coincidentally finished right after Barry Zito became the last of his Three Aces (after Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder) to depart. <\/p>\n

When you factor in the Rays\u2019 highly ranked farm system, perhaps they can make a run at the A\u2019s record of eight years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to do everything we can to keep them healthy, keep them on the field,\u201d Rays manager Kevin Cash said Saturday. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen [that] if we can keep guys on the field, we\u2019ve got a special group.\u201d<\/p>\n

They sure look like they can be a thorn in the Yankees\u2019 side (as well as the rest of the American League East) for a while to come. It falls on the Yankees, with so many key players in their primes, to figure out how to slow down the Rays\u2019 train, because they\u2019ve got the goods to keep going for a while.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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