For the Tampa Bay Rays to play their opening game of the 2023 season in a glass-domed ballpark in Ybor City, construction would need to begin by late spring 2020.
That deadline — 2023 is when the team "would like to see this get done," team owner Stuart Sternberg said — gives the team and public officials a year-and-a-half to hammer out the most critical piece of a new Major League Baseball stadium in Tampa: The financing of the $892 million ballpark, which will depend in part on some sort of…
