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Maddon is the first manager to have won the Manager of the Year Award with the Rays, first winning it in 2008, and again in 2011. [8] Maddon became the manager of the then-Devil Rays in 2006. [7] On February 15, 2012 the Rays extended his contract through the 2015 season, [9] however he opted out of his contract at the end of the 2014 season.
By mid-August Tampa Bay was 127–155 under Cash. Despite this, Rays owner Stuart Sternberg came out in support of his manager. [75] Instead, the Rays fired hitting coach Derek Shelton on September 6. [76] Cash greatly improved his success rate on replay challenges, becoming the 11th most successful manager with a 59.2% overturn rate in 2016. [77]
On November 15, 2005, Maddon was hired to manage the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. [citation needed] The Rays went 121–197 (.381) in Maddon's first two seasons. [14] The Rays were in yet another re-building phase, this time under the management of General Manager Andrew Friedman. Tampa Bay held the lowest payroll in baseball at $44 million.
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Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash tried to end speculation about replacing his friend Terry Francona as the manager of the Cleveland Guardians. The 64-year-old Francona recently stepped down as ...
The 2008 season saw the Tampa Bay Rays post their first winning season, their first AL East championship, and their first American League pennant (defeating the rival Boston Red Sox in the ALCS), though they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in that year's World Series. Since then, the Rays have played in the postseason in 2010, 2011, 2013 ...
The Tampa Bay area has a long association with amateur and professional baseball. Tampa and St. Petersburg were among the first hosts of Major League Baseball spring training in the 1910s, the Tampa Smokers and St. Petersburg Saints were two of the founding members of the minor league Florida State League (FSL) in 1919, and several other communities in the area also hosted FSL teams in the ...
Shelton became the Tampa Bay Rays' hitting coach after the 2009 season. [20] [21] The Rays fired him in September 2016. [22] [23] On December 12, 2016, the Toronto Blue Jays hired him as a quality control coach for the 2017 season. [13] [24] [25] On November 6, 2017, the Minnesota Twins hired Shelton as bench coach for the 2018 season. [12] [26 ...