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Even when they split the team up, the Rays simply cannot be beaten this spring. Tampa Bay won it's club record ninth consecutive spring training game as its split squads beat the Blue Jays and Pirates. For those who believe Spring Training results don't matter, consider this. The Rays have traditionally been an average Grapefruit League team. They meander around the .500 mark most seasons, using Spring Training for what it is, just tuning up for the regular season. The only season the Rays dominated the Grapefruit League was 2008. That also happened to be the year they had their best start in franchise history, won the AL East and the AL Pennant before falling to the Phillies in the World Series. Last spring, possibly feeling the World Series hangover, the Rays again had a subpar spring, g ...

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Article written by JC De La Torre