All players on this roster have accumulated more WAR for the Rays than any other major league team. Players are listed alphabetically, followed by their Strat-o-Matic card being used and their position eligibility.
Players without the *** designation are listed in Baseball Reference’s top 1000 in career WAR.
Players with the *** designation are not listed in the top 1000, but are “invitees” to round out the team to fulfill these minimum requirements: 30 players — 18 position players (with at least 2 players rated at each position) and 12 pitchers (at least 7 must have a reliever rating).
Position Players (18)
Rocco Baldelli*** (2006, CF), Jason Bartlett*** (2009, SS), Carl Crawford (BH, LF/CF), Logan Forsythe*** (2015, 2B/1B/3B), Toby Hall*** (2005, C/1B), Aubrey Huff*** (2004, 3B/1B/LF), John Jaso*** (2010, C/1B), Desmond Jennings*** (2012, LF/CF/RF), Matt Joyce*** (2011, RF/LF), Kevin Kiermaier (2015, CF/RF), Evan Longoria (2010, 3B), Brandon Lowe*** (2021, 2B/LF/RF/1B), Julio Lugo*** (2005, SS), Carlos Pena*** (2007, 1B), Sean Rodriguez*** (2010, 2B/CF/3B/1B/LF/RF/SS), B.J. Upton*** (2007, CF/2B), Joey Wendle*** (2018, 2B/3B/LF/SS), Ben Zobrist (BH, 2B/RF/SS/LF/CF/1B).
Pitchers (12)
Chris Archer*** (2015, SP), Alex Colome*** (2016, RP), Scott Kazmir*** (2007, SP), Albie Lopez*** (2000, SP/RP), Jake McGee*** (2014, RP), Jim Mecir*** (1998, RP), David Price (2012, SP), Fernando Rodney*** (2012, RP), James Shields (2011, SP), Blake Snell*** (2018, SP), Tanyon Sturtze*** (2001, SP/RP), Victor Zambrano*** (2003, SP/RP).
Transactions
03/26/20 Added Willy Adames (2019, SS), dropped Steven Souza (2017, RF/CF).
04/01/21 Added Blake Snell (2018, SP) and Joey Wendle (2018, 2B/3B/LF/SS), dropped Alex Cobb (2013, SP) and Akinori Iwamura (2008, 2B).
03/31/22 Added Brandon Lowe (2021, 2B/LF/RF/1B), dropped Willy Adames (2019, SS).