The Latest Breaking News from Rays

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Tyler Zombro had been thinking since last fall he would be recovered enough from the traumatic head injury he sustained in June to report to spring training.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nick Anderson is taking definite steps forward in his rehab from an October elbow procedure and toward a midseason return to the mound.

TAMPA, Fla. — Tyler Zombro doesn’t remember being hit by the line drive that fractured his skull on June 3.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Rays officials still haven’t gotten any clarity from other major-league owners or top executives during their quarterly meetings about why the plan to split future seasons in Montreal was killed.

Dear Major League Baseball owners and Commissioner Rob Manfred:

Severe shortness of breath during a little run around his South Carolina neighborhood shortly after the end of Triple-A Durham’s season was the first sign of trouble.

TAMPA, Fla. — Scan the history of this little sports galaxy, and one encounters a veritable constellation of aging stars who arrived in the bay area hoping for a final glimmer.

BALTIMORE — Another first for the Orioles’ developing farm system came Wednesday, with Baltimore coming in fourth in Baseball America’s latest organizational rankings.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Across the country, and some oceans, Rays players are preparing diligently for a spring training that seems increasingly unlikely to open as planned in mid-February due to lack of progress in negotiations for a new labor agreement and the rules of disengagement resulting from the owners-induced…

Only a couple hours after Major League Baseball killed the Tampa Bay Rays’ kooky, controversial plan to split their home schedule with the city of Montreal, my phone rang last week.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — About the only thing Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg could think Thursday was that Major League Baseball didn’t want to be the first league having a team split its home games between two markets.