Tampa Bay Rays appreciation thread

Never been much of a Rays fan, but that front office is winning me over. They have by far the lowest payroll in MLB, but look at the product on the field. Everything they do is efficient, everything maximizes their probability to win. They're what the A's have tried to do under Billy Beane, but maybe a better version of it.

The current roster has a little bit of everything:
-A homegrown ace (Blake Snell)
-A top prospect (Austin Meadows) they got when they traded their old ace
-Misfits like Ji-Man Choi, who's on his 6th MLB team, and Tommy Pham, who butted heads with Cardinals management. Hey, their loss.
-Yandy Diaz, who Cleveland got sick of because he didn't hit enough homers, and Mike Zunino, who Seattle got sick of because the only good thing he did was hit homers.
-A bunch of Zobrist-like dudes who can play 4-5 positions and contribute at the plate (Lowe, Robertson, Wendle, Duffy)
-One of the best pens in baseball (2.05 bullpen ERA) led by a dude who can do this:



^that pitch was 99 mph by the way


Also, they won again today and lead the AL East with a 9-3 record.