{"id":127826,"date":"2026-01-22T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127826\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:00:07","slug":"are-the-tampa-bay-rays-getting-a-new-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127826\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Tampa Bay Rays getting a new stadium?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After both their current home in Tropicana Field and their quest for a new stadium in St. Peterburg fell apart amidst the destruction from hurricane Milton in October of 2024, the Rays finally appear on track for a more stable future. Not only do they expect Tropicana Field to be ready to reopen by Opening Day<\/a>, but now plans for a new stadium stadium in Tampa itself are starting to emerge.<\/p>\n

The plan, and that\u2019s all it is at this point, is to use land from Hillsborough College<\/a> to carve out the room needed for not just a new stadium, but also a ballpark village of sorts modeled after what Atlanta has done with their stadium setup. The college would get money, and the Rays would get a site across the street from the Buccaneers\u2019 Raymond James, just to the south of the Yankees\u2019 spring training facility, and just to the east of Tampa\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a decent chance this never happens, but if it does, this looks to be a better location for the Rays than their current home in St. Petersburg, where we now know they\u2019ll play at least the next three seasons and complete their deal there.<\/p>\n

Talk about this, the Yankees signing Cody Bellinger, the Mets trading for Freddy Peralta (we\u2019ll have more reaction to those items later), and whatever else you\u2019d like. As always, be good to one another!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After both their current home in Tropicana Field and their quest for a new stadium in St. Peterburg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[63228,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-127826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-open-thread","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}