"We anticipate that the Pinellas County Commission will authorize the bonds at their next meeting," Rays Co-President Matt Silverman said through a spokesperson. "As we stated in our letter three weeks ago, we remain ready to work with all key stakeholders to fill the funding gap their delay has created."

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Rays will honor those agreements, as team president Matt Silverman wrote in a November letter to the commission. That letter, the last in a series of correspondence, also stated the team is now awaiting the political decisions before deciding how to proceed.

The Tampa Bay Rays sent a letter to Pinellas County commissioners on Saturday in response to Pinellas County Commission Chair Kathleen Peters's letter to the team last week, giving them a December 1 deadline to decide whether they still want to move forward with plans for a new ballpark.

The Tampa Bay Rays president said the team’s front office believes the votes are now there with the Pinellas County Commission to approve financing for a new baseball stadium at its upcoming meeting Dec.