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Sep 30, 2025, 05:41 PM ET
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A group led by Florida-based real estate developer Patrick Zalupski closed on its purchase of the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, finalizing the sale of the team from former owner Stuart Sternberg.
Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the transaction last week. The price was not disclosed.
“It’s an incredible honor to become the stewards of the Tampa Bay Rays, a franchise with a proud history and a bright future,” Zalupski said in a statement. “We’re all energized by the responsibility to serve Rays fans everywhere and this great game. … We will work hard to earn the respect and confidence of our fans and new MLB partners, and we are excited about the upcoming challenge to deliver a world-class experience on and off the field.”
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Zalupski’s group, which also includes Bill Cosgrove and Ken Babby, is expected to restart the search for a new ballpark. The Rays in March withdrew from a $1.3 billion project to construct a new ballpark adjacent to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, citing a hurricane and delays that likely drove up the proposal’s cost.
Zalupski, CEO of Jacksonville-based Dream Finders Homes Inc., will be the team’s control person and a co-chair along with Cosgrove, CEO of Union Home Mortgage in Ohio.
Babby, CEO of Fast Forward Sports Group, will be CEO. Fast Forward owns the Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, a Miami Marlins’ affiliate, and the Double-A Akron RubberDucks, a Cleveland Guardians farm team.
Erik Neander, in his 19th season with the Rays, will remain as president of baseball operations.
Tampa Bay said the new ownership group includes Dan Doyle Jr., Doug Hertz, Matt Silverman, Robert Skinner, Will Weatherford, and Rick Workman, who will be part of an executive advisory board that will include Fred Ridley as an independent member. Silverman has been with the Rays for 22 years, including 17 as team president.
“Major League Baseball is pleased to welcome Patrick and his partners to the ownership ranks,” commissioner Rob Manfred said. “Their collective experience and passion for the game will serve the Rays well as they enter this exciting new chapter.”
Sternberg took control of the team from founding owner Vince Naimoli in November 2005 and rebranded it the Rays from the Devil Rays after the 2007 season. The Rays won AL East titles in 2008, 2010, 2020 and 2021 and twice reached the World Series, losing to Philadelphia in 2008 and to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020.
September 25, 2025 | Paul Stimpson
Extra tickets are now on general sale for WTT Star Contender London – giving you more opportunity to see some of the worldâ€s best players in action!
Due to exceptional demand, weâ€ve increased capacity for the weekend sessions. This is your chance to see Olympic medallists and top-20 world-ranked players going for glory at the iconic Copper Box Arena, the Box That Rocks of London 2012 fame!
The tickets are for the weekend of 25-26 October as the competition comes to a pulsating close with doubles finals on Saturday and singles gold medal matches on Sunday.
As well as tickets to a single session, which start from £27 for adults and just £10 for children, there is also the option to buy a day ticket to both sessions on the Saturday or both sessions on the Sunday – or a weekend pass covering all four sessions across the weekend.
Tickets are also still available for the first four days of competition from Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 October. Come and cheer on our home-grown talents as they aim to reach the main draw, or watch the top-ranked players get their campaigns under way in the early rounds.
Where are tickets on sale and how much do they cost?
Tickets are on sale on the Ticketmaster platform.
Pricing varies according to session, starting at £12 for adults for the qualifying days on 21-22 October, up to £32 to see the singles champions crowned on Sunday 26 October. Saturdayâ€s play is also set to include doubles finals.
Childrenâ€s tickets are never more than £10 and are only £5 for every weekday session.
Your guide to the sessions and prices is as follows:
  Round(s)  Session Adult Kids Tue 21/10/2025 Qualifying All Day £12 £5 Wed 22/10/2025 Qualifying Morning £12 £5 Wed 22/10/2025 Qualifying Afternoon £12 £5 Thu 23/10/2025 R48 Morning £17 £5 Thu 23/10/2025 R48 Afternoon £17 £5 Fri 24/10/2025 R32/QF Morning £22 £5 Fri 24/10/2025 R32/SF Afternoon £22 £5 Sat 25/10/2025 R16/Final Morning £27 £10 Sat 25/10/2025 QF/Final Afternoon £27 £10 Sun 26/10/2025 Semi-Final/Final Morning £32 £10 Sun 26/10/2025 Final Afternoon £32 £10
Donâ€t miss this landmark event – get your tickets today!
What about London 2026 World Championships tickets?
Tickets for the 2026 ITTF World Team Championships in London will go on sale later this year.
After agreeing to sell their stake in the Los Angeles Lakers, Joey and Jesse Buss are reinvesting their profits in a new endeavor.
ESPN’s Dave McMenamin and Shams Charania reported the Buss brothers are starting Buss Sports Capital with the goal of “identifying acquisitions and partnerships across the global sports landscape.”
“Our vision is to really go after strategic investments and good partners — specifically sports-related investments,” Joey said. “Buss Sports Capital is not going to compete with our interests in the Lakers or the NBA. This is our first step towards where the future of sports is going to lead us. It is exciting to see what growth opportunities exist — particularly opportunities that we can add value to, given our skill sets.”
Jesse told McMenamin and Charania he sees this as a long-term project.
“I look forward to working with my brother, Joey, for the next 50 years and hopefully this is something that can live through our children,” he said. “That’s what our dad would have wanted.”
In June, the Buss family agreed to sell a controlling stake in the Lakers to Mark Walter in deal that values the franchise at a record-setting $10 billion. The transaction is still pending approval from the NBA’s board of governors.
McMenamin and Charania reported Joey and Jesse, along with Jeanie Buss, will all retain roles with the Lakers once Walter is the majority shareholder. They originally inherited the team from their father, Jerry Buss, in 2013 following his death.
Control of the Lakers was briefly the source of familial drama in 2017 before Jim and Johnny Buss, two of Jerry’s other sons, agreed to cede authority to Jeanie in perpetuity.
Joey is currently Los Angeles’ vice president of research and development, and he’s the alternate governor to fill in for any official NBA matters if Jeanie is unavailable. Jesse is an assistant general manager, a title he has held since September 2015.
At this stage, it’s unclear what types of investment opportunities the Buss brothers will pursue. Once the Lakers’ sale is finalized, Buss Sports Capital won’t have any liquidity problems.
Sep 22, 2025, 04:55 PM ET
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball owners voted unanimously Monday to approve the sale of the Tampa Bay Rays to group headed by real estate developer Patrick Zalupski, allowing the transfer from Stu Sternberg’s group to close.
The Rays said on Sept. 17 they expected the sale to close within two weeks.
Sternberg took control of the team from founding owner Vince Naimoli in November 2005 and rebranded it the Rays from the Devil Rays after the 2007 season. The Rays won AL East titles in 2008, 2010, 2020 and 2021, and twice reached the World Series, losing to Philadelphia in 2008 and to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020.
The Rays in March withdrew from a $1.3 billion project to construct a new ballpark adjacent to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, citing a hurricane and delays that likely drove up the proposal’s cost. The team said in June it had started talks about a potential sale.
Because of damage to Tropicana Field caused by Hurricane Milton last October, the Rays played home games this season across the bay at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the spring training home of the New York Yankees. The Rays went 41-40 for their ninth straight winning record at home.
Playing home games in an open-air ballpark for the first time, the Rays experienced 17 rains delays over 16 games for a total of 17 hours, 47 minutes.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said last week that he expects under Zalupski the Rays will start a new search for a new ballpark site in the Tampa and St. Petersburg area. Under Sternberg, the Rays announced plans for and then failed to move ahead with proposed ballparks at the Al Lang Stadium site in St. Petersburg (2007), Ybor City in Tampa (2018) and the site adjacent to the Trop in downtown St. Petersburg (2023 ).
Tampa Bay started this season with an $81.9 million payroll, ahead of only the Athletics and Miami.
Playing at a 10,046-capacity ballpark, Tampa Bay had 61 sellouts and drew 786,750, down from 1,337,739 in 2024, when they were 28th among the 30 teams and ahead of only Miami and Oakland.
Tampa Bay is currently 29th in home attendance this year, ahead of only the Athletics, who are playing home games at a minor league ballpark in West Sacramento, California, while a new stadium expected to open in 2028 is built in Las Vegas. The Rays have completed their home schedule while the A’s have drawn 711,609 with six home games left.
The Tampa Bay Rays have a new owner.
Per The Athletic’s Melissa Lockard and Evan Drelich, MLB owners unanimously approved the sale of the team to a Patrick Zalupski-led ownership group, and the sale is expected to be finalized later this week.
In July, Rays owner Stu Stenberg agreed to sell the team in principle to Zalupski, a Jacksonville-based developer, for nearly $1.7 billion.
Drellich reported in March that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred was pressuring Stenberg to sell the team after he struggled to secure a new stadium. Stenberg responded to that pressure by saying that “the team is not for sale.”
Ultimately, Stenberg agreed to give up his majority ownership stake in the Rays.
Stenberg purchased the team in 2004 for $200 million, and while he’ll no longer be the majority owner, he and his partners will remain minority owners, according to Lockard and Drellich, retaining a 10 percent share of the team. Lockard and Drellich noted that Stenberg and his group “are expected to fully divest their investment in the club in the coming years.”
The Rays found some success under Stenberg’s ownership, reaching the World Series in 2008 and 2020, but never established themselves as a perennial contender. Tampa Bay is fully in rebuilding mode now, sitting at 76-80 on the season.
The Rays have played their home games during the 2025 campaign at George M. Steinbrenner Field, the spring training stadium of the New York Yankees, due to damage to their own stadium during Hurricane Milton last year.
The team was supposed to get a new $1.3 billion stadium in St. Petersburg, but did not move forward with those plans after the hurricane. Lockard and Drellich noted that Zalupski’s group will continue to try to find a new stadium, but will return to Tropicana Field in 2026.
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