The Tampa Bay Rays have had anything but an ideal home stadium situation for years. The situation reached a head last year when they were forced to play their home games at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa because Hurricane Milton had ripped the roof of Tropicana Field. Expand Tweet

Steinbrenner Field is normally the spring training home of the New York Yankees. There was no way the Rays or the city of St. Petersburg could have repaired The Trop in time for the Rays to return for the 2025 season. The Rays will return to Tropicana Field in 2026, but that is not a long-term solution either.

Tropicana Field has been rated as one of the worst home fields in all of Major League Baseball. Rays games are often sparsely attended even though the team has been a consistent contender in the America

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