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Below is a partial list of minor league baseball players in the Tampa Bay Rays system:
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Willy Adames
Willy Rafael Luna Adames (born September 2, 1995) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Adames signed with the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent in July 2012. He made his professional debut in 2013 with the Dominican Summer League Tigers. In 60 games, he hit .245/.419/.370 with one home run. Adames started the 2014 season with the West Michigan Whitecaps.
Adames was acquired by the Tampa Bay Rays in a three-way trade for David Price on July 31, 2014.
Thomas Coyle
Thomas John Coyle (born October 24, 1990 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania) is a minor league baseball second baseman currently in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Prior to playing professionally, he attended Germantown Academy and then the University of North Carolina.
He was drafted by the Rays in the 16th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft and began his professional career that year, with the Hudson Valley Renegades, hitting .265 with 20 stolen bases in 67 games. He was named to the New York-Penn League Mid-Season All-Star team and the MiLB.com Organization All-Star team. In 2013, he hit .278 with 40 stolen bases in 126 games for the Bowling Green Hot Rods, earning a spot on the Midwest League All-Star team and the MiLB.com Organization All-Star team. In 2014, he hit .249 with 30 stolen bases in 117 games for the Charlotte Stone Crabs.
Jacob Faria
Jacob Faria (born July 30, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Faria was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 10th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft out of Gahr High School in Cerritos, California. He made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast Rays. Faria played 2012 and 2013 with the Princeton Rays. He pitched 2014 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods and started 2015 with the Charlotte Stone Crabs. After going 10–1 with a 1.33 earned run average (ERA) in 12 games, he was promoted to the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits. In his second start with Montgomery tied a team record with 14 strikeouts over seven no-hit innings. The Rays added him to their 40-man roster after the season.
Johnny Field
John David Field (born February 20, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Field played college baseball at the University of Arizona from 2011 to 2013. Over 172 games, he hit .343/.431/.518 with 11 home runs. He was a member of Arizona's College World Series championship team in 2012.
Field was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth round of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Rays and made his professional debut with the Hudson Valley Renegades. In 2014 he played for the Bowling Green Hot Rods and Charlotte Stone Crabs. He was named the Rays Minor League Player of the Year after hitting .300/.476/.488 with 12 home runs. Field started 2015 with the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits.
Dylan Floro
Dylan Lee Floro (born December 27, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Floro attended Buhach Colony High School in Atwater, California. During his high school career he had a 33-5 win-loss record. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 20th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft but did not sign and attended California State University Fullerton to play college baseball. He played for the Titans from 2010 to 2012. During his career he went 21–8 with a 3.29 earned run average (ERA) and 178 strikeouts.
Floro was again drafted by the Rays, this time in the 13th round of the 2012 MLB Draft. He this time signed with the Rays and made his professional debut that season with the Hudson Valley Renegades. Pitching for the Bowling Green Hot Rods and Charlotte Stone Crabs in 2013, Floro went 11–2 with a 1.77 ERA and was named the Rays Minor League Pitcher of the Year. In 2014 he pitched for the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits.
Tyler Goeddel
Tyler Goeddel (born October 20, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder and third baseman in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Goeddel was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the first round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft out of St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California. He signed with the Rays and made his professional debut in 2012 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods and also spent 2013 with them. After the season he played for the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League. Goeddel played 2014 with the Charlotte Stone Crabs and started 2015 with the Double-A Montgomery Biscuits.
Grant Kay
Grant Kay (born May 29, 1993) is a second baseman who plays in the Tampa Bay Rays Minor League system. Listed at 6' 0" (1.83 m), 185 lb. (84 k), Kay bats and throws right handed. He was selected by Tampa Bay in the 27th round of the 2014 MLB Draft out of University of Louisville.
A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Kay is one of four siblings born into the family of Greg Kay and Dawn Pearsons. An all-around athlete, he lettered in baseball, basketball and football at Ralston High School, where he earned All-State and All-Super State honors as a senior in baseball, was All-Conference basketball selection in both junior and senior seasons, and hit a .500 batting average with 20 home runs and 65 runs batted in as a preparatory senior.
Before Louisville, Kay attended Iowa Western Community College and won a national championship with the IWCC Reivers in 2012, rating as No. 3 prospect in the summer wooden bat New England Collegiate Baseball League the same year as a freshman to become the only junior college player named Collegiate Summer Baseball All-American in that season. Besides, he was selected to the First-team All-Conference and All-Region in both freshman and sophomore seasons at Iowa Western, hitting .373 and 13 home runs as a freshman, while driving in 37 runs and scoring 42 times. Unfortunately, a knee injury suffered as a sophomore limited his availability, even though he was rated as one of the top junior college ballplayers in the nation.
In 2014, Kay posted a .285 average (59-for-207) with five home runs and 35 RBI as a junior for the Cardinals, including 49 runs, nine doubles and 23 stolen bases in 65 games, en route to their second straight trip to the College World Series. While mulling his eligible options for the MLB Draft, Kay headed to the Cape Cod Baseball League, the premier summer wooden-bat circuit for collegiate players, where he went 14-for-26 (.538) with two homers and four doubles in only six games for the Cotuit Kettleers, and that short stint tipped the scales.
Kay debuted on July 14, 2014 with the Hudson Valley Renegades of the New York–Penn League, Class A affiliate of the Rays, playing at second base for them while batting fifth in the order. He hit for the cycle in his first professional game, going 5-for-6 with five runs scored and three RBI, leading the Renegades to a 16–4 victory over the Batavia Muckdogs. Kay hit a three-run home run in his first professional at-bat, following with a double in his third at-bat and singles in his fourth and fifth, before drilling a triple in the eight inning to complete a five-hit, five-run game and a cycle in his first professional contest.
Brent Honeywell
Brent Lee Honeywell (born March 31, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Honeywell attended Franklin County High School in Royston, Georgia. After high school he attended Walters State Community College for one year, where he we went 11–3 with a 2.81 earned run average (ERA) with 102 strikeouts. Honeywell was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the second round of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Rays and made his professional debut with the Princeton Rays. He finished his first year with a 1.07 ERA with 40 strikeouts in 33 1⁄3 innings over nine games (eight starts). Honeywell started 2015 with the Bowling Green Hot Rods.
His father, Brent Honeywell, played Minor League Baseball from 1988 to 1990.
German Marquez
German Andres Marquez (born February 22, 1995) is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Marquez signed with the Tampa Bay Rays as an international free agent in July 2011. The Rays added him to their 40-man roster after the 2015 season.
Taylor Motter
Taylor Davis Motter (born September 18, 1989) is an American professional baseball outfielder and infielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Motter played college baseball at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. In three seasons with the Chanticleers (2009-2011), he appeared in 187 games (185 starts) and hit .303 with 18 home runs, 110 RBI with a slugging percentage of .482. He helped lead Coastal Carolina to three consecutive Big South Conference baseball championships, three NCAA Regional appearances and one NCAA Super Regional appearance (2010). While, only, hitting .256 with no home runs and three RBI in 13 Big South Tournament games, Motter, in 13 NCAA Regional/Super Regional games, hit .333 with three home runs and nine RBI while compiling a .622 slugging percentage.
He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 17th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft. He made his professional debut with the Princeton Rays and also played in three games with the Bowling Green Hot Rods that year. He spent 2012 with Bowling Green, 2013 with the Gulf Coast Rays and Charlotte Stone Crabs, 2014 with the Montgomery Biscuits and 2015 with the Durham Bulls. In 2014 he was the MVP of the Southern League All-Star Game after going 3-3 with a home run. Motter was named the Durham Bulls' 2015 team MVP after ranking first in the International League in doubles (43) and extra-base hits (58), 3rd in total bases (229) and slugging percentage (.471), 4th in hits (142), on-base percentage (.366) and runs scored (74) and 8th in batting average (.292). The Rays added him to their 40-man roster after the 2015 season.
Mark Sappington
Mark Joseph Sappington (born November 17, 1990) is a professional baseball player in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Sappington attended Rockhurst University. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the 5th Round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft, becoming the highest draft pick in the history of the Rockhurst baseball program.
Sappington was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays on November 5, 2014 for Cesar Ramos.
Justin Williams
Justin Paul Williams (born August 20, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Williams attended Terrebonne High School in Houma, Louisiana. He hit .443 with 22 home runs and 67 runs batted in (RBI) over 79 games. Williams was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second round of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Diamondbacks rather than play college baseball at Louisiana State University (LSU) and made his professional debut that season with Arizona League Diamondbacks. He also played with the Missoula Osprey and South Bend Silver Hawks that season. He hit .351 with one home run in 51 games. In 2014 he played for Missoula and South Bend. In 74 games he hit .351 with four home runs.
On November 14, 2014, Williams along with Andrew Velazquez was traded from the Diamondbacks to the Tampa Bay Rays for Jeremy Hellickson.
Kean Wong
Kean Keanu Wong (born April 17, 1995) is an American professional baseball second baseman who plays in Minor League Baseball for the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
Wong attended Waiakea High School in Hilo, Hawaii. The Tampa Bay Rays selected Wong in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB Draft. He signed with the Rays, receiving a $400,000 signing bonus. After he signed, he played for the Gulf Coast Rays of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League.
In 2014, Wong played for the Bowling Green Hot Rods of the Class A Midwest League. He appeared in the league's all-star game.
His father, Kaha, instructed him on how to play baseball. His older brother, Kolten Wong, plays in MLB.