Fantasy baseball: 2020 Tampa Bay Rays fantasy preview

OAKLAND, CA - OCTOBER 02: Charlie Morton #50 of the Tampa Bay Rays pitches during the AL Wild Card game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images) /

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LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 17: Blake Snell #4 of the Tampa Bay Rays pitches in the first inning against the against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on September 17, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /

30 teams in 60 days of quarantine: Tampa Bay Rays fantasy preview

This series of fantasy baseball articles was intended to be something to pass the 30 days without DFS. The wait ended up being much longer. Now we are left with the prospect of just 60 games for MLB this year, the lowest game total in more than a century.

Most of you, like me, have played DFS for quite some time. We have never seen anything like this before. A bare lobby. No upcoming contests. E-Sports touts are in hog heaven. Even most DFS touts are trying to become E-Sports touts. It’s nuts!

Most of you, also like me, still play season-long fantasy baseball. Some for money. Some not. Some just because it’s the only interaction you have with some friends anymore. Whatever the case, we can use this break in DFS to get us polished up for our fantasy baseball drafts, whenever those may be. We started at the bottom and are slowly moving up. The Tampa Bay Rays were 7th in wins last year with 96.

The biggest question for the Rays seems to be just how they will use their starting pitching. Both Chirinos and Yarbourgh started about half their games last year instead of just coming out of the bullpen. Will that happen this year. Will Snellzilla even pitch? Those are the big questions facing the Rays.

Here we will examine the Washington Nationals projected lineup and rotation, and who to draft and in what general spot. We will also take a look at prospects that could make their debuts and have a fantasy impact in 2020. The 2019 stats are in parentheses. Let’s get started!

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