Updated 3:15 p.m. No matter what else happens on Wednesday, the headlines in San Diego will be dominated by Aaron Judge deciding to return to New York. Pending a physical, Judge has reportedly agreed to a nine-year 360-million dollar deal. …

Updated 9:15 p.m. Day two of the Winter Meetings in San Diego may be highlighted by Aaron Judge’s decision on where he will play in 2023. …

Updated 8:45 pm ET It’s the first full day of the Winter Meetings in San Diego, with the Rays baseball operations staff arriving on Sunday night. In terms of transactions, there was no big signing or trade across the sport on Sunday. But that changed on Monday. …

As the Winter Meetings are set to begin in San Diego, Tampa Bay is expected to look at ways to improve the team’s offensive production. Run prevention remains the greatest strength of the club. For this exercise, let’s update where the Rays stand in the bullpen. For purposes of this…

Tampa Bay reportedly has made a significant addition to its rotation days before the Winter Meetings in San Diego. As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, RHP Zach Eflin has agreed to a three-year deal for 40 million dollars, pending a physical. In terms of total dollars, it would be…

Certainly between now and Spring Training the Rays will be looking at ways to improve offensively. But they also will be looking at ways to fortify depth, at the major league level, and throughout the system. Let’s first take a look at starting pitching. Tampa Bay used 18 different starting…

The Rays on Friday tendered all 14 of its arbitration eligible players, as was expected. Tampa Bay also resolved situations regarding Ryan Yarbrough and Javy Guerra. The Rays traded Guerra to Milwaukee for a player to be named later. Yarbrough was non-tendered. …

It’s almost time for the next checkpoint of the off-season. By 8 p.m. on Friday, teams have to decide whether to tender a contract to arbitration-eligible players. In the Rays case, they have 14 players on which to make decisions. That’s down from 19 at the start of the off-season…

The Rays were fairly busy in adding five prospects to the 40-man roster on Tuesday, making three trades and designating three players for assignment. What’s important to understand is November 15th was just an off-season checkpoint. There is still a lot do between now and the start of Spring Training. …