Owner rules out spring move
SUN PHOTO BY KATHERINE GODINA Rays Adam Liberatore pitches against the Red Sox on Sunday at Charlotte Sports Park
PORT CHARLOTTE —Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg said Sunday that using the team’s spring training home as a bargaining chip has not been part of the team’s lobbying effort for a new home in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.
“It hasn’t at all,” he said when asked if the subject had come up.