Kansas City at Tampa Bay

The Tampa Bay Rays are not a team that has the resources to go out and buy big time free agents. What they have done as well as any team is utilize the draft, and develop quality players. Kansas City is another small-market team that had a good run, but is now struggling again to open the season at a dreadful 12-21. The Royals were 100 game winners, including playoff games, in 2014 and 2015, but were below .500 last season, and sliding fast. Just two years ago ths offense was plating 4.57 runs per contest, but through 33 games this season the output is a woeful 2.94. They have scored one or fewer runs 12 times, or in 36.3% of all games, and two runs or less in about half of their games. Tampa Bay starter, Jake Odorizzi has seen his five starts yield 2.40 runs per game by the opponent, which sets up another disappointment for the Royals' lackluster offense. Back Tampa Bay.