CHRIS RAY RUMORS & GOSSIP

With a 94 mph fastball and 51 career saves on his resume, Chris Ray figures he could have signed with just about any Major League team on a Minor League deal this spring. He decided to take a chance to pitch for the Mariners as a non-roster invitee

With closer David Aardsma recovering from offseason hip surgery, right-hander Chris Ray is a reliever to watch as the Mariners formulate some new late-inning plans.

Chris Ray -- the relief pitcher who was dealt to the San Francisco Giants for Bengie Molina last summer -- has signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners with an invitation to Spring Training.The right-hander was used pretty sparingly by the Giants after the Jul. 1 trade, but was instrumental in the team's world championship run nonetheless. After all, moving Molina...

Sure, a sweep would have been nice. But how can you complain about (merely) taking a pivotal series at Coors? The correct answer is that you cannot. Coors has quite simply been a mile-high, house of horrors. And who knows, maybe it will be less of one now that Major League Baseball – being reactionary instead of proactive as usual – has finally taken a step to make sure the humidor...

SFGiantsBaseball.net The San Francisco Giants have placed reliever Chris Ray on the DL, and Jeremy Affeldt has been reinstated from the DL. Let’s hope Affeldt can step up and help solidify this bullpen. The Giants starters have not got a win in the last 13 starts, so let’s hope Matt (Shotgun Cain) Cain can change that tonight. We really need to have our starters pitch...

Yet another trade went down last night as we get within one month of the trade deadline, as the San Francisco Giants sent catcher Bengie Molina to the Texas Rangers for reliever Chris Ray and a player to be named later. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: When there’s a PTNBL involved, the deal dramatically changes. If it’s a short-season middle reliever, that’s very...

All season long the talk around the Rangers is that they need to acquire a big name player such as Cliff Lee or Roy Oswalt.  I think finally the Rangers finally figured out their biggest weakness today when they supposedly sent Chris Ray and a player to be named later to the Giants in exchange for veteran catcher BengieMolina.  I read about his on MLB.com and it was reported by...

One day you'll refer to Chris Ray as "the guy that we got in the Molina trade." But for now, let's pretend that Ray is actually a decent pitcher. You see, the truth is, Ray is a sub-.500 righty reliever who has a career record of 11 wins and 16 losses and a lifetime ERA of 4.00. He was drafted out of William and Mary in the third round of the 2003 Amateur Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Ray,

The Ranger’s just finished up a three game series against the Milwaukee Brewers and although Friday night and Saturday morning were less than great, the Rangers pulled away with series win,  winning the last two games of the series.  On Friday night Rangers starter Rich Harden had less than a superb outing giving up four home runs and ending up on the disabled list the next morning...

The Rangers were unable to overcome a shaky start by Rich Harden and dropped the first game of a three game series against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park.  The Rangers started a three game series tonight against the Brewers, Monday is an off day before the Ranger begin a 3 game series at the Florida Marlins.   They will then head to Houston for the final 3 game series to...