Tampa Bay Rays Logo — The Tampa Bay Rays is a professional baseball team of Major League Baseball based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The team is in the Eastern Division of the American League. The team was added to the league in 1998 as an expansion team and currently plays its home games at Tropicana Field. After ten seasons with negative record, nine of them occupying last place in their division, the Rays have called the American League champions, defeating the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS, 4 games to 3.
Tampa Bay ended his brilliant 2008 season falling into the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 1. In 2010 the Tampa Bay Rays finished in first place in the American League East in a close where the division was defined until recent days, leaving a game on the Yankees.