Our All Time Top 50 Tampa Bay Rays have been revised to reflect the 2024 Season.
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 Tampa Bay Rays.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the American League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.
Last year, the Rays finished 80-82 and missed the playoffs. There were two new entrants and multiple elevations coming from the 2024 season.
As always, we present our top five, which saw one change.
3. Ben Zobrist
5. David Price
You can find the entire list here.
Based on the revisions, Kiermaier overtook Price for #4.
Brandon Lowe moved up from #16 to #9.
Third Baseman Yandy Diaz was not able to move past last year’s #10.
Outfielder Randy Arozarena, who was traded to Seattle during the season, advanced two spots to #17.
Pitcher Zach Eflin, who was traded to Baltimore during last season, enters at #50.
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50. Zach Eflin
Zach Eflin worked his way to become a decent Starting Pitcher with Philadelphia, but he never became a star in the Keystone State. Earning free agency in 2023, Eflin signed with Tampa, where he had his best season in Major League Baseball, leading the NL in Wins (16) with a sixth-place finish for the American League Cy Young.
The season after, the faltering Rays traded the Pitcher to Baltimore, but his strong year on a team that consistently rotates talent lands Elfin on this list.