2022 Tampa Bay Rays season

2022 Tampa Bay Rays
American League Wild Card Winners
League	American League
Division	East
Ballpark	Tropicana Field
City	St. Petersburg, Florida
Record	86–76 (.531)
Divisional place	3rd
Owners	Stuart Sternberg
President	Brian Auld & Matthew Silverman
President of baseball operations	Erik Neander
General managers	Peter Bendix
Managers	Kevin Cash
Television	Bally Sports Sun Bally Sports Florida (Dewayne Staats, Brian Anderson)
Radio	Tampa Bay Rays Radio Network (English) (Andy Freed, Dave Wills) WGES (Spanish) (Ricardo Taveras, Enrique Oliu)
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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 (CBA) between the league and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.