Tampa Bay Rays

29 seasons · 1998–2026 · 2,250–2,319 (.492) · 2 pennants · 0 World Series

Season by season

29 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	AL	—	82	55	.599	—	—	—
2025	AL	E	77	85	.475	4th	714	683
2024	AL	E	80	82	.494	4th	604	663
2023	AL	E	99	63	.611	2nd	860	665	Wild card
2022	AL	E	86	76	.531	1st	666	614	Wild card
2021	AL	E	100	62	.617	1st	857	651	Division
2020	AL	E	40	20	.667	1st	289	229	Pennant
2019	AL	E	96	66	.593	2nd	769	656	Wild card
2018	AL	E	90	72	.556	3rd	716	646
2017	AL	E	80	82	.494	3rd	694	704
2016	AL	E	68	94	.420	5th	672	713
2015	AL	E	80	82	.494	4th	644	642
2014	AL	E	77	85	.475	4th	612	625
2013	AL	E	92	71	.564	2nd	700	646	Wild card
2012	AL	E	90	72	.556	3rd	697	577
2011	AL	E	91	71	.562	2nd	707	614	Wild card
2010	AL	E	96	66	.593	1st	802	649	Division
2009	AL	E	84	78	.519	3rd	803	754
2008	AL	E	97	65	.599	1st	774	671	Pennant
2007	AL	E	66	96	.407	5th	782	944
2006	AL	E	61	101	.377	5th	689	856
2005	AL	E	67	95	.414	5th	750	936
2004	AL	E	70	91	.435	4th	714	842
2003	AL	E	63	99	.389	5th	715	852
2002	AL	E	55	106	.342	5th	673	918
2001	AL	E	62	100	.383	5th	672	887
2000	AL	E	69	92	.429	5th	733	842
1999	AL	E	69	93	.426	5th	772	913
1998	AL	E	63	99	.389	5th	620	751

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, or that there was nothing to win yet because the season is still being played.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Tampa Bay Rays, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Evan Longoria	2008–2017	43.6	1,435	6,151	1,471	261	892	.270
Carl Crawford	2002–2010	25.3	1,235	5,383	1,480	104	592	.296
Ben Zobrist	2006–2014	23.4	1,064	4,478	1,016	114	511	.264
Yandy Diaz	2019–2026	23.1	947	4,043	1,039	119	471	.292
B. J. Upton	2004–2012	22.5	966	4,061	910	118	447	.255
Brandon Lowe	2018–2025	17.3	745	2,994	657	157	446	.247
Kevin Kiermaier	2013–2022	15.3	914	3,351	756	82	316	.248
Carlos Peña	2007–2012	14.6	726	2,971	559	163	468	.230
Julio Lugo	2003–2006	13.6	576	2,387	598	40	224	.281
Aubrey Huff	2000–2005	12.6	736	3,066	805	120	421	.288
Fred McGriff	1998–2004	11.5	626	2,600	651	111	400	.290
Rocco Baldelli	2003–2010	10.9	457	1,901	493	53	239	.280
Randy Arozarena	2020–2024	10.0	622	2,627	577	90	312	.253
Junior Caminero	2023–2026	9.9	341	1,463	355	89	222	.268
Desmond Jennings	2010–2016	8.9	567	2,351	508	55	191	.245
Matt Joyce	2009–2014	8.6	633	2,256	485	76	280	.250
Isaac Paredes	2022–2024	7.9	407	1,593	320	70	223	.234
Wander Franco	2021–2023	7.8	265	1,143	292	30	130	.282
Joey Wendle	2018–2021	7.0	400	1,493	371	25	151	.274
Randy Winn	1998–2002	6.7	519	2,047	513	24	182	.279

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
David Price	2008–2014	19.4	186	86	51	0	1221.3	1,147	3.21
James Shields	2006–2012	17.9	218	87	73	0	1454.7	1,250	3.89
Chris Archer	2012–2021	16.1	195	58	72	0	1134.7	1,227	3.74
Scott Kazmir	2004–2009	13.0	151	57	46	0	870.3	900	3.83
Drew Rasmussen	2021–2026	11.4	144	43	22	2	591.7	556	2.83
Blake Snell	2016–2020	9.7	108	42	30	0	556.0	648	3.24
Shane McClanahan	2021–2026	9.3	97	43	22	0	517.7	559	3.06
Tyler Glasnow	2019–2023	8.4	60	26	11	0	332.7	462	3.03
Alex Cobb	2011–2017	8.0	115	48	35	0	700.0	570	3.50
Zach Eflin	2023–2024	6.4	59	26	17	0	343.0	320	3.54
Charlie Morton	2019–2020	6.1	42	18	8	0	232.7	282	3.33
Matt Garza	2008–2010	4.7	95	34	31	1	592.3	467	3.86
Matt Moore	2011–2016	4.1	108	45	33	0	608.3	563	3.91
Jake Odorizzi	2013–2017	4.1	127	40	37	1	698.0	639	3.82
Jake McGee	2010–2015	3.9	297	21	11	26	259.7	319	2.77
Mark Hendrickson	2004–2006	3.7	94	27	38	0	526.3	275	4.99
Pete Fairbanks	2019–2025	3.4	275	20	24	90	265.3	332	3.19
Jeffrey Springs	2021–2024	3.4	86	18	8	2	229.0	268	2.63
Jeff Niemann	2008–2012	3.2	97	40	26	0	544.3	409	4.08
Zack Littell	2023–2025	3.0	89	21	24	0	433.0	345	3.80

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Tampa Bay Rays player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Carlos Peña2007 · 46 HR · 121 RBI · .282	6.9
2	Evan Longoria2010 · 22 HR · 104 RBI · .294	6.3
3	Evan Longoria2009 · 33 HR · 113 RBI · .281	6.1
4	Evan Longoria2013 · 32 HR · 88 RBI · .269	5.9
5	Ben Zobrist2009 · 27 HR · 91 RBI · .297	5.9
6	Evan Longoria2011 · 31 HR · 99 RBI · .244	5.7
7	Randy Winn2002 · 14 HR · 75 RBI · .298	5.4
8	Junior Caminero2026 · 37 HR · 87 RBI · .282	5.4
9	B. J. Upton2007 · 24 HR · 82 RBI · .300	5.3
10	Yandy Diaz2023 · 22 HR · 78 RBI · .330	5.1

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Charlie Morton2019 · 16 W · 240 SO · 3.05	5.3
2	David Price2014 · 15 W · 271 SO · 3.26	5.0
3	Chris Archer2015 · 12 W · 252 SO · 3.23	4.6
4	Zach Eflin2023 · 16 W · 186 SO · 3.50	4.2
5	Scott Kazmir2007 · 13 W · 239 SO · 3.48	4.2
6	Blake Snell2018 · 21 W · 221 SO · 1.89	4.1
7	David Price2012 · 20 W · 205 SO · 2.56	3.9
8	Chris Archer2017 · 10 W · 249 SO · 4.08	3.8
9	Drew Rasmussen2026 · 14 W · 149 SO · 2.95	3.5
10	James Shields2007 · 12 W · 184 SO · 3.85	3.4

Names this club has played under

Name	Years	Seasons
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	1998–2007	10
Tampa Bay Rays	2008–2026	19

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1998 to 2026. That is 29 of them, 2,250–2,319 in all, a winning percentage of .492. No World Series yet.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

This club has played under 2 names. It began as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998 and is the Tampa Bay Rays now. The names, and the years each one covers, are listed further down. Relocations and renamings are kept together because the franchise is the thing that continued, which is also how the record books treat it.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1998 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 2021 and 2002. The 2021 club went 100–62 (.617); the 2002 club went 55–106 (.342). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Tampa Bay Rays careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.