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Rays 2019: Our preview section, all in one place

Here are links to all our stories, themed around the Rays once again changing baseball with the opener.
 
Rays Preview section
Published March 24, 2019|Updated March 28, 2019

As we get set for the opener, here’s a chance to get ready with all our preview section coverage:

Here are links to the stories in our Rays preview section, which appeared in print Sunday, themed around the latest Rays innovation that changed the game, the introduction last season of the opener.

How the opener came about, from a "what-if’ conversation 15 years ago, by Marc Topkin.

Is the opener really that radical? John Romano tells you what he thinks.

Is Ryne Stanek the guy who changed baseball as we know it? Martin Fennelly dives in.

Bottom line, did the opener work? Tom Bassinger takes a look inside the numbers.

Here’s 10 things we learned about the impact of the opener, as Marc Topkin explains.

Thumbing its nose at baseball protocol nothing new for the Rays.

The Rays use of the opener showed baseball’s old rules are dead, MLB Network host and author Brian Kenny writes.

Eduardo A. Encina previews the MLB season, complete with a ranking of all 30 teams heading into the season and players to watch in 2019.

Also in the preview section:

There’s big changes at the Trop this year, headlined by no cash sales and a closed upper deck, as Marc Topkin explains.

Marc Topkin ranks the Rays players 1-30 based on how critical they are to the team’s success.

We give you the hot dates for the Rays home games.

And elsewhere as part of our preview package:

The annual Q-and-A with principal owner Stuart Sternberg, touching on Colbert, creature comforts and, of course, Springsteen.