It's been a streaky season for the Rays, but obviously mostly good at 59-23. They famously started the season 1-7 and have gone 3-6 over their last 9, which means that in between they were an absurd 55-10.
Despite an effort to upgrade the defense, the results have been pretty much the same with the team dead last in defensive efficiency. Still there is slight improvement: Dantel Chinchilla has a 2.5 ZR at SS, a position which was a nightmare last year. But Jon McGovern hasn't been the flycatcher we'd hoped for at -3.9 ZR in half a season and while he might be slightly better than Beau Bonczek was there last season, it's not great. Speaking Bonczek, he's -2.2 in LF. And although Jon Morales has bounced back with the bat he's -2.8 so we have a lot of fly balls dropping in that other teams don't. And Juan Davila is still a butcher at 2B (-7.8!). In the cases of Davila and Jon Morales their bats are so good we have to live with it.
You can see how bad the defense is (.331 BABIP) and how much of the run prevention is their fault since our pitching staff is collectively tops in WAR in the AL. Still though for all the carping about the D we are 59-23 after all and that of course is thanks to the typical relentless offense, as seen below:
You know you have a good lineup when every regular in it is on pace for nearly 3 WAR or better.
Poor Kevin Leonard and Mel Mejia - it's almost a 50/50 proposition if they let the hitter put the ball into play it'll drop for a hit.