Money, draft picks swapped for brains, guts when building Rays roster

ST. PETERSBURG — This is a column about baseball and forward thinking. So naturally, we’ll start with football and the past. Forty-some years ago, NFL coach and Texas legend Bum Phillips described Don Shula in this way: “He can take his’n and beat your’n, or he can take your’n and beat his’n.” And, now, here is the segue: The Rays began the month with zero homegrown players on their 26-man ...