According to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, Major League Baseball has given the Tampa Bay Rays permission to potentially split home games with Montreal.
The Rays currently have an agreement with the city of St. Petersburg requiring that all home games be played at Tropicana Field through 2027. That is one of the manning obstacles the Rays would face in any future arrangement that has them playing in Florida and Montreal.
No changes to the Rays’ home games are imminent and Rob Manfred called the potential split season “exploratory.”
Despite having a 43-31 record a season after winning 90 games in the America League East divisions the Rays have the second lowest average attendance in 2019. They average only 14,546 a game, higher than only the Marlins’ 9,378 fans per game.
The Rays have been in the bottom two of attendance each of the last nine seasons.
