By The Daily Caller (Opinion) | Created at 2024-11-26 02:47:57 | Updated at 2024-11-26 05:40:37
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November 25, 2024 8:42 PM ET
This is absolutely insane…
The Tampa Bay Rays‘ 2025 schedule has been switched up by Major League Baseball in an attempt to miss the Florida rain and next year’s hurricane season, this because of Steinbrenner Field being open-air and having no cover. Steinbrenner Field will be the temporary home stadium for the Rays after Tropicana Field was destroyed by Hurricane Milton. (RELATED: Yusei Kikuchi Lands $63 Million, Los Angeles Market In Free Agent Deal With Angels)
MLB’s changes will see Tampa play 47 of their first 59 games at home, with their last 103 games seeing 69 on the road. In their first 22 contests, 19 of them will be played at home. In each July and August, the Rays will only play eight games in Tampa.
According to the National Weather Service per ESPN, the average monthly rainfall of Tampa from 1991-2020 was:
- April: 2.25 inches
- May: 2.60 inches
- June: 7.37 inches
- July: 7.75 inches
- August: 9.03 inches
- September: 6.09 inches
As you see, things really start to shoot up after May, so you can’t really blame Major League Baseball for making the changes … but still, wacky stuff.
With the #Rays moving to the #Yankees‘ George M. Steinbrenner Field, MLB announced the following scheduling changes: pic.twitter.com/je8zurjck2
— Gary Phillips (@GaryHPhillips) November 25, 2024
That’s the thing about Florida, the weather is extreme down here in the summer, it’s one of the reasons why I fell in love with the weather world — Mother Nature don’t play in the Sunshine State.
Like I said, you can’t blame MLB, but it’s still crazy that a team is in a position like this. It just makes me want to write off the 2025 Rays immediately.
