As the Rays to Tropicana Field following Hurricane Milton last week, the clubs ability to get the Trop back in working order in time for Opening Day 2025 has been thrown into serious doubt. Given that the club was already planning to relocate to a new ballpark nearby in in time for Opening Day 2028, questions linger about whether or not the Rays will look to return to their current stadium at all or instead look for an interim home while their newest ballpark is being constructed. While it will likely be a few weeks before the Rays are able to fully a se s the damage to the Trop and hash out a plan of action, notes that theyre expected to at least begin the 2025 season playing their home games elsewhere. That reality has Damyean Dotson Jersey led to a rash of speculation about where those home games may end up being played, with Topkin noting a push by local media in North Carolina to put the city of Durham, where the clubs Triple-A affiliate plays. Said coverage of a hypothetical temporary move to the area by the Rays includes a piece by about the po sibility that includes comments from a handful of local politicians supporting the po sibility. Whatever hopes North Carolina residents had of MLB games being played in Durham appear to have been dashed for the time being, however, as the Durham Bulls this afternoon emphasizing that not only have there been no discu sions about the Bulls hosting the Rays in Durham, but that the Bulls do not anticipate hosting them for the full 2025 season due to overlapping scheduled and other logistical challenges. That statement seemingly rules out the po sibility of the Rays playing a full slate of 81 home games in Durham next year, though the Bulls statement also notes that they are always ready to help [their] parent club and does seemingly leave the door open for the Rays playing part of the season in Durham if nece sary. That could be a useful option for Rays bra s if they intend to fix the Trop up in time for the club to play games there later in the 2025 season, or if the club takes another route to filling out its regular season calendar such as sharing time with other minor league clubs or even one of the more extreme po sible solutions floated by Topkin such as sharing loanDepot Park with the Marlins. Any of those options would likely come with some scheduling conflicts not unlike the ones that would face the Rays and Bulls in Durham, and a speculative solution to that dilemma could be spreading the Rays 2025 home games acro s multiple sites. In other stadium news, a recent report from noted that the Twins are only halfway through their 30-year lease at Target Field in Minneapolis. While that wouldnt be especially noteworthy in most circumstances, the Pohlad familys that they intend to explore selling the franchise has prompted concern among Twins fans that prospective buyers may look to move the club out of Minnesota. If a buyer planned to do that, however, theyd have to wait quite some time in order to do so as the Twins lease stipulates that shall not vacate or abandon the ballpark at any time during the leases term. In other words, any prospective buyer of the Twins would likely have to wait more than a decade before they could seriously consider relocation, a reality that could lead any potentially interested parties who hope to purchase and subsequently relocate a team to seek out other options that could lead them to their intended destination faster. Thats surely a relief for Twins fans who have in previous decades endured relocation and contraction attempts while the Pohlad family has owned the club. Bobby Portis Jersey