LINK LOTTERY: Could 2014 be the Rays' largest payroll ever?

Last week, Cork Gaines of Rays Index posted that the 2014 Rays payroll is now projected to be the largest in Rays history. If true, I gotta wonder, I thought I read somewhere they were gonna cut back the payroll in 2014, not grow it? And if they do grow it, where is the money coming from? TV? [Rays Index]

Here's other items from around the net...

• Also from Rays Index, the A's claimed Chris Geminez. Cork thinks this could lead to another player joining the Rays 40-man roster somehow. [Rays Index]
• Ken Rostenthal of FoxSports.com wonders if the Rays can trade Price and remain a contender. [Fox Sports]
• Rays Colored Glasses says it's time to extend Ben Zobrist. [Rays Colored Glasses]
• Also from Rays Colored Glasses, they recap the Rays fruitless-ness at DH and look at prospects for 2014. [Rays Colored Glasses]
• DRaysBay looks at Longo and Wil's streaky hitting tendencies. [DRaysBay]
• Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times says the Rays are not in a hurry to trade Price. He also has some other Rays rumblings too. [Tampa Bay Times]
• Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times says that the O's are interested in Fernando Rodney. [Twitter]