The Tampa Bay Rays have a chance to be Amazin'
Baseball's feel-good story
AL East leaders hold baseball's best record, could match Mets' feat

The Tampa Bay Rays have baseball's best record, 55-34 going into Wednesday's games, and this is new air for the team formerly known as the Devil Rays.

In their 10 years of existence, the Rays have finished last nine times and never had a winning record. Their average season is 65-97, 34

games out of first place.

Sounds like the Mets before 1969. In their first seven years or existence, the Metropolitans finished last five times, never higher than ninth, and their average season was 56-105, 41 games back.

You know what happened next. With a bunch of young talent — every position starter and New York's top three pitchers were 26 or younger — the Mets won 100 games and the World Series.

Can Tampa Bay pull off the same turnaround? The Rays have no starting pitcher older than 26 and no position starter older than 30.

But the question is not how did the Rays finally reach this level. The question is, what took them so long?

The Mets were awful in the 1960s, but that was mostly the lot of expansion teams then.

Page 1 of 2

12Next

Show / Hide Comments

Sports Photo Galleriesview all

Oklahoma Sooners receivers from 1999-2002

Freshmen Curtis Fagan, Damian Mackey, Antwone Savage, Trent Smith...

16 photos

Thunder vs. Lakers Game 5

View pictures from Game 5 of the NBA playoffs between the Thunder...

55 photos

OU v Oregon State softball

See photos from OU's win in the NCAA softball regional

13 photos

Thunder vs. Lakers Game 4

View pictures from Game 4 of the NBA playoffs between the Thunder...

36 photos

Page 1 of 5

Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next