Tampa Bay Rays are in talks for a potential sale amid stadium uncertainty

the Tampa Gulf rays Suppose they are in “exclusive discussions” with an investment group in Florida for its potential sale to the team. The value of the rays is $ 1.25 billion, according to Forbes magazine, and the price of the sale is $ 1.7 billion, each Sportico. Stuart Stenberg bought the main baseball club in the league for $ 200 million in 2004.

“Tamba Bay Ris announced that the team had recently started exclusive discussions with a group led by Patrick Zalubsky, Bill Cosgrov, Ken Babby and the prominent investors of Tamba Bay regarding a possible sale of the team,” the club said on Wednesday.

A possible sale comes at a time fraught with radiology and their home stadium. They are playing this season in the spring training house in New York Yanxiz In Tampa, after the roof of the Tropicana field in Saint Petersburg was severely damaged during the Hurricane Milton last October.

Before the hurricane, the rays and the city approved a plan for a $ 1.3 billion stadium development project near Tropicana Field. In March, Sternburg said that the club is withdrawing from this agreement, amid reports that MLB was pressing the team for sale, and even benefiting from the following collective negotiation agreement to impose this issue, for each. Sports.

Saint Petersburg spends about $ 55 million to repair the Tropicana field with a radiology plan to return there in 2026. The city and the club have a three -year agreement to play there. Moreover, the club’s future in the Tamba Bay area is not certain.

When the rays withdrew from the project, the city noted that the club could have a new owners.

“In the coming months, the new owner, who clarifies an commitment to honoring their agreements and shows the priorities of our society, will consider a partnership to maintain baseball in St. Pitt,” Mayor Kane Walsh said in March. “But we will not put progress in our city while we are waiting for a cooperative partner focusing on society.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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