The Rays Franchise Deep Three

Finally we've reached the end of this series (for now, at least). The last franchise on the board is the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who've spent about two thirds of their existence as a laughingstock and the other third as the ultimate "do the most with the least" franchise. How does it shake out?

	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
1st	David Price	Toby Hall	Carlos Pena	Ben Zobrist	Evan Longoria	Julio Lugo	Carl Crawford	Melvin Upton	Matt Joyce
2nd	James Shields	Dioner Navarro	Fred McGriff	Logan Forsythe	Aubrey Huff	Jason Bartlett	Desmond Jennings	Rocco Baldelli	Ben Grieve
3rd	Scott Kazmir	John Flaherty	Travis Lee	Miguel Cairo	Jared Sandberg	Kevin Stocker	Greg Vaughn	Randy Winn	Dave Martinez

So...that 3rd Team is brutal. What do you expect from a franchise with such a short and usually bad history? Center field was fairly strong though, and once Kevin Kiermaier gets another year under his belt, he'll probably at least make it to the 2nd Team. Catcher was definitely the weakest position here. No offense to Toby Hall, but he wouldn't even crack the 6th Team for some franchises.

I'm hoping to recompile these in perhaps about five years, if I'm still doing this blog then. Certainly some players will have moved up or down on the lists, and even some players yet to debut will probably be there for a few of them. For now though, enjoy the 2015-16 rankings in all their up-to-date comprehensiveness.