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After the dust settled on the MLB Trade Deadline action, the Tampa Bay Rays are getting a decent grade for their efforts.

Next up were the Rays, who unsurprisingly had the strangest deadline of anybody in the division. Sitting around .500 and trailing in the Wild Card race but certainly not out of the fight, Tampa made ...