2022 Tampa Bay Rays season

The 2022 Tampa Bay Rays season was the 25th season of the Tampa Bay Rays franchise and their 15th as the Rays. The Rays played their home games at Tropicana Field as members of Major League Baseball's American League East.
On December 2, 2021, Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred announced a lockout of players, following expiration of the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the Major League Baseball Players Association. On March 10, 2022, MLB and the MLBPA agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement, thus ending the lockout. Opening Day was played on April 7. Although MLB previously announced that several series would be canceled due to the lockout, the agreement provided for a 162-game season, with originally canceled games to be made up via doubleheaders.
The Rays finished in third place in their division, qualifying for the playoffs as the final wild card in the American League. They lost to the Cleveland Guardians in a two-game sweep in the ALWCS.

Offseason

Lockout

The expiration of the league's collective bargaining agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association occurred on December 1, 2021, with no new agreement in place. As a result, the team owners voted unanimously to lockout the players stopping all free agency and trades.
The parties came to an agreement on a new CBA on March 10, 2022.

Rule changes

Pursuant to the new CBA, several new rules were instituted for the 2022 season. The National League will adopt the designated hitter full-time, a draft lottery will be implemented, the postseason will expand from ten teams to twelve, and advertising patches will appear on player uniforms and helmets for the first time.

Postseason

Postseason rosters

Pitchers: 18 Shane McClanahan 20 Tyler Glasnow 28 Corey Kluber 29 Pete Fairbanks 30 Brooks Raley 47 Jason Adam 57 Drew Rasmussen 59 Jeffrey Springs 60 Garrett Cleavinger 64 Shawn Armstrong 65 Javy Guerra 68 Jalen Beeks
Catchers: 14 Christian Bethancourt 21 Francisco Mejía
Infielders: 0 Taylor Walls 2 Yandy Díaz 5 Wander Franco 7 Vidal Bruján 17 Isaac Paredes 26 Ji-man Choi 43 Harold Ramírez 62 Jonathan Aranda
Outfielders: 6 David Peralta 13 Manuel Margot 22 José Siri 56 Randy Arozarena

Player stats

Note: Team leader in each category are indicated in bold.

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
Jonathan Aranda	32	78	10	15	4	0	2	6	.192	0
	153	586	72	154	41	3	20	89	.263	32
Christian Bethancourt	44	149	16	38	6	0	7	15	.255	1
	52	147	13	24	5	0	3	16	.163	5
Yu Chang	36	96	11	25	3	0	3	12	.260	0
	113	356	36	83	22	0	11	52	.233	0
	137	473	71	140	33	0	9	57	.296	3
	83	314	46	87	20	3	6	33	.277	8
	63	206	28	47	8	0	7	22	.228	6
	65	235	31	52	10	2	8	25	.221	1
	52	181	24	40	12	2	2	13	.221	3
	89	336	36	92	18	2	4	47	.274	7
Miles Mastrobuoni	8	16	1	3	0	0	0	0	.188	1
	93	289	32	70	22	0	6	31	.242	0
	111	331	48	68	16	0	20	45	.205	0
David Peralta	47	161	10	41	11	1	0	18	.255	0
	75	184	21	27	4	0	5	14	.147	7
René Pinto	25	80	5	17	3	0	2	10	.213	0
Roman Quinn	21	42	7	11	2	2	0	4	.262	0
Luke Raley	22	61	7	12	2	0	1	4	.197	0
	120	403	46	121	24	0	6	58	.300	3
José Siri	56	166	35	40	9	0	4	14	.241	8
	142	407	53	70	18	2	8	33	.172	10
	36	115	7	17	3	0	5	16	.148	0
Team Totals	162	5412	666	1294	296	17	139	634	.239	95

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
	2	3	1.56	67	0	8	63.1	31	12	11	17	75
Shawn Armstrong	2	3	3.60	43	3	2	55.0	56	22	22	14	61
Luke Bard	1	1	1.93	8	0	0	14.0	7	3	3	7	8
Shane Baz	1	2	5.00	6	6	0	27.0	27	15	15	9	30
	2	3	2.80	42	7	2	61.0	49	22	19	22	70
Christian Bethancourt	0	0	3.00	3	0	0	3.0	6	1	1	0	1
Yu Chang	0	0	13.50	2	0	0	2.0	6	3	3	0	0
	2	0	2.42	21	3	0	22.1	16	7	6	5	17
Yonny Chirinos	1	0	0.00	2	1	0	7.0	7	0	0	1	6
Garrett Cleavinger	1	0	2.41	13	0	0	18.2	8	5	5	4	25
Cooper Criswell	0	0	2.70	1	1	0	3.1	2	1	1	1	4
	0	0	5.06	1	0	0	5.1	8	3	3	0	7
Pete Fairbanks	0	0	1.13	24	0	8	24.0	13	3	3	3	38
	2	3	5.48	22	0	1	21.1	26	16	13	10	21
	4	0	0.00	22	2	1	24.1	7	1	0	5	25
	2	5	6.43	10	3	0	35.0	54	36	25	12	29
	2	2	3.34	19	0	0	35.0	38	14	13	16	17
Tyler Glasnow	0	0	1.35	2	2	0	6.2	4	1	1	2	10
	2	1	3.38	17	0	0	16.0	13	7	6	8	9
Kevin Herget	0	1	7.71	3	0	0	7.0	9	6	6	0	4
	3	1	3.15	17	0	5	20.0	15	7	7	2	14
	10	10	4.34	31	31	0	164.0	178	82	79	21	139
	0	1	5.73	6	0	0	11.0	11	8	7	4	9
	1	0	11.81	2	0	0	5.1	9	10	7	6	5
	12	8	2.54	28	28	0	166.1	116	52	47	38	194
Easton McGee	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	3.0	4	1	0	0	1
David McKay	0	0	18.00	1	0	0	2.0	3	4	4	2	0
Cristofer Ogando	0	0	4.15	3	0	0	4.1	4	2	2	1	2
	1	2	8.10	6	6	0	20.0	26	18	18	13	11
	0	0	18.00	3	0	0	4.0	9	8	8	2	0
	4	2	3.99	65	0	7	58.2	46	30	26	22	64
	1	2	2.68	60	0	6	53.2	37	19	16	15	61
	11	7	2.84	28	28	0	146.0	121	51	46	31	125
	1	0	7.71	3	1	0	4.2	3	4	4	5	5
	0	0	3.07	8	0	0	14.2	12	5	5	3	12
	9	5	2.46	33	25	0	135.1	114	42	37	31	144
	3	3	3.80	47	0	3	42.2	39	24	18	11	39
	3	3	2.25	39	5	1	44.0	30	18	11	14	35
Jimmy Yacabonis	0	0	11.57	5	1	0	4.2	8	7	6	5	6
	3	8	4.50	20	9	0	80.0	88	44	40	22	61
Team Totals	86	76	3.41	162	162	44	1435.2	1260	614	544	384	1384