Let's preview the Tampa Bay Rays for 2026.

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Welcome to On the Beat, a mini team preview series we're doing here on the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast.

I am Chris Towers, and I'm joined by an old friend.

Ryan Bass used to be a video host for CBS Sports.

For those of you who can remember, what, 8, 10 years ago, Ryan used to do a bunch of fantasy baseball stuff with us here at CBS Sports. For those of you who can remember what eight, 10 years ago, Ryan used to do a

bunch of fantasy baseball stuff with us here at CBS Sports. Lovely to see Ryan here. And he is the Tampa

Bay Ray's TV reporter, also a pre and post game host for Ray's broadcast. Make sure to give him a follow

on X at Rye underscore Bass. What you can expect for these team previews, we're going to do

all 30 teams over the next month. One or two big fantasy questions. We're going to bring in people

who know the team inside and out. A sleeper and a breakout pick will have one team preview per day

for the next month leading up to the start of spring training. And we're starting with the

raise, which is good because I don't know what to make of the raise right now.

They lost Brandon Lau.

They lost Pete Fairbanks.

They lost Shane Baughes.

They lost Adrian Hauser, Christopher Morel.

They lost Steinbrenner Field.

They've added Cedric Mullins, Stephen Matt, and mostly a whole bunch of prospects who

won't matter in 2025. The one who may is Jacob Melton. Is Melton possibly looking at a

starting job for the raise in the outfield and after the trade from the Astros? Well, first of all,

Chris, I remember fondly the days back in 15 and 16 when we would do, I don't know, 50 to 100 player updates a day on the player pages for fantasy baseball today.

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