{"id":215266,"date":"2026-04-01T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:59:24","slug":"yankees-show-support-for-rays-in-tampa-stadium-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215266\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees show support for Rays in Tampa stadium pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays division rivals, the New York Yankees, are backing the Rays push to build a new stadium right next to their spring training facility.<\/p>\n<p>Steinbrenner Field is located next to Hillsborough College and Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t go anywhere if the Rays do end up building a stadium in that area.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees released a statement saying they support the construction of a new ballpark next door as long as it doesn&#8217;t impact funding for other sports venues in the area \u2014 including theirs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maintaining and enhancing all of our venues in a first-class fashion should remain a priority for ensuring the sustained ascent of Hillsborough County and the greater Tampa Bay region,&#8221; the team&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time the Yankees have shown support for their rival.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Yankees allowed the Rays to re-fashion Steinbrenner Field with Rays signage and play the entirety of the 2025 season there while Tropicana Field was being repaired from the 2024 hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays division rivals, the New York Yankees, are backing the Rays push to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1242,115,29208,275,110,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-215266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-news","tag-rays-stadium","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215266","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=215266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}