Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the sale of the Tampa Bay Rays to Jacksonville residential developer Patrick Zalupski, the Tampa Bay Times reported Monday.

"It's good to go," MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told the Tampa Bay Times. "It's official in terms of our internal processes subject just to their closing, but it's always subject to the closing taking place."

The sale is expected to be completed later this week. The team did not have a comment as of Monday evening.

The Rays confirmed in June that principal owner Stu Sternberg was in talks to sell the franchise to a group led by Zalupski, with a reported valuation of about $1.7 billion.

Zalupski, 44, has multiple partners on board but will be the designated control person with MLB. He is the CEO of Dream Finders Hom

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