The Tampa Bay Rays have been able to blow past expectations so far this year and are looking like a true contender. With their success, some of their plans might have to change.  Coming into the year, nobody would have predicted the Rays to be doing as well as they have so far in the American League. Tampa Bay is currently in second place in the AL East and keeping pace with the New York Yankees.  This offseason, the Rays made a few moves that implied they might have been thinking more about the future than the present. Letting Pete Fairbanks walk into free agency after declining a club option was one of them. That was followed by the decisions to trade Brandon Lowe and Shane Baz for prospects.  While the team was aggressive in free agency, they couldn’t have predicted that the additions of Nick Martinez and Steven Matz would have worked out so well. Now, as a contender early on, one of the players who certainly was mentioned in a lot of rumors last year should be off the block.…