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An Interview With Jonah Keri
In continuing our series of interviews with people in and around the game of baseball we're joined by friend of the site and sports writing vagabond extraordinaire, Jonah Keri. We talk about Crawford, Bradley, instant replay, the financial state of the game, and two young...
Northeastern : Building A University The Football Hockey Team Can Be Proud Of
3 days ago by
Can't Stop The Bleeding
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Though Boston’s Northeastern University has produced such sporting ’sphere icons as Reggie Lewis, Chris Nilan, Carlos Pena, the late Will McDonough and Don Orsillo, Sean Jones and Dan Ross, aside, the school has never been widely known as a football hotbed. As such,...
Ben Zobrist 8th Most Valuable American Leaguer
3 days ago by
Rays Index
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Joe Mauer has been named the 2009 American League MVP. Ben Zobrist 8th place finish, was the highest ever for the Rays. Zobrist’s highest vote was a sixth-place vote. Evan Longoria finished 19th.
Carlos Pena had the highest finish ever by the Rays in the AL MVP voting with...
Gabe Kapler is Off the Bases like the Spiderman Logo
by Jim Prisching - AP
I know the Spiderman joke doesn't entirely make sense other than my insistence on saying Kapler plays the field like a spider on acid ... but his arms here seem to support my theory on Kapler's arachnid nature...
The Rays’ All-Time Offensive Leaderboard: The Sabremetric Edition
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by Gail Burton - AP
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While writing my piece for last weekend, I spent a lot of time looking at the Fangraph win values of historical players...
Rays' Offensive Leaderboard
Ponder this question, answer it, and then mentally rank the options in order from one to five. Leave full rankings in the comments section. And no Fangraphs-peeking allowed!No worries, the answer will be coming at 10 AM today.
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Tampa Bay Rays Add Alexander Torres, Desmond Jennings, and Jeremy Hellickson to 40-Man Roster
Carlos Pena was also reinstated from the 60-day DL. These moves are pretty much procedural. Jennings and Hellickson were going nowhere, and same with Torres -- although I don't believe he was eligible for this year's Rule 5. This maxes out the 40-man and leaves a few notable...
Could Pena be available...
8 days ago by
Mets Fever
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Tommy Rancel of DRaysbay makes a pretty convincing case for his Rays to trade Carlos Pena.The 31 y/o left handed first baseman is on the last year of a contract in which he'll earn 10.12MM for the season. Pena is a classic late bloomer who bounced between four teams before becoming...
Players A to Z, Willy Aybar
8 days ago by
Baseball Musings
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Willy Aybar is a utility infielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. He plays second, third and first, filling in for both Akinori Iwamura and Carlos Pena when they suffered injuries. Aybar’s career got off to a good start, posting a .387 OBP over his first two seasons. Unfortunately,...
Random: Rays and Pena, Kottaras & Scutaro
8 days ago by
Matthew Cerrone's Mets Blog
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Tommy Rancel of DRaysBay explains why now might be the time for the Rays to explore trading 1B Carlos Pena, who will earn $10 million next season, after which he can be a free agent.
The Red Sox have released 26–year-old C George Kottaras, making him a free agent, according to WEEI...
Morning Links: Red Sox, Phillies, Rays
8 days ago by
MLB Rumors
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Plenty to absorb this morning, baseball fans:
The Red Sox have asked the Braves for medical records of free agent relievers Mike Gonzalez and Rafael Soriano, according to the New York Post. WEEI.com also notes that catcher George Kottaras has been released.
Chan Ho Park...
Conventional Wisdom and Such
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by Stephan Savoia - AP
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This has been a very odd week.
On Sunday night, about, eh, six hours before our interview with Andrew Friedman went up, Bill Belichick...
Evan Longoria Wins Gold Glove
16 days ago by
Rays Index
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The Rays announced today that Evan Longoria won his first Gold Glove Award. Dirtbag is just the second Ray to win the award (Carlos Pena, ‘08).
“It’s the one award that I’ve wanted to win since I started pro ball,” Longoria said. “I take a lot of pride in my defense...
Getting Love For The Glove
16 days ago by
Baseball & The Boogie Down
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The 2009 AL Gold Glove winners were announced today and the Yankees, as expected, had 2 winners. Congrats to Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter on picking up the honors.For my money, both were no-brainers. Teixeira was just amazing with the glove. Tex ranked 2nd in fielding percentage for...
Tampa Bay Rays Continue To Buck Trends And Set New Ones; Market Exploitation 101
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by Jerry S. Mendoza - AP
The "sign and trade" of Akinori Iwamura is another example of the Rays getting creative in order to acquire new talent.
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Chasing Lefties
29 days ago by
Baseball Musings
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I should not have been that surprised the Chase Utley was able to take CC Sabathia deep in game one of the World Series. In 2009, Chase held the fourth best AB/HR for lefty on lefty matchups at 17.4 AB per HR (minimum, 150 AB against lefties). Only Prince Fielder, Carlos Pena, and [...]
A Preliminary Look at the 2010 AL East Offenses - Part 1
October 23, 2009 by
Camden Chat
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by Gail Burton - AP
I miss him already. Get here soon, spring! (AP Photo/ Gail Burton)
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I was fortunate enough to get a preview of Bill James' 2010 hitter and...
Offseason Outlook: Tampa Bay Rays
October 22, 2009 by
MLB Rumors
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The Rays are next in our Offseason Outlook series. Their likely commitments for 2010:
C - Gregg Zaun - $2MM (club option, Zaun can void)C - Shawn Riggans - $414K1B - Carlos Pena - $10.125MM2B - Ben Zobrist - $416KSS - Jason Bartlett - $1.98MM+3B - Evan Longoria - $950KIF -...
Evan Longoria Graces Cover of Bill James 2010 Handbook
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via www.actapublications.com
Some notable projections from the book (in OPS form):
Evan Longoria: .918
Ben Zobrist: .876
Carlos Pena: .858
Matt Joyce: .829
Pat Burrell: .795
Desmond Jennings: .790
Carl Crawford: .786
B.J. Upton: .768
Jason Bartlett:...
BABIP Bargain Bin
October 20, 2009 by
Amazin' Avenue
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bumped--sam
One of the ways to find healthy bargains in an offseason market is to pick up some players who had poor seasons and hope they rebound. Of course, to do so, you have to be able to predict which players are due for some luck regression in a good way, and which...
The One Where We Discuss Tinkering JoeMa, And A Few Rays Hit Free Agent Market
October 13, 2009 by
Rays Index
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BJ Upton
Carl Crawford
Evan Longoria
Carlos Pena
Ben Zobrist
Pat Burrell
Jason Bartlett
Gabe Kapler
Dioner Navarro
Above is a pretty standard batting order used by the Rays this past season versus left-handed pitchers early in the season. In fact, no other batting order was used...
Ben Zobrist Enjoys White Squares Under His Feet
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by Steve Nesius - AP
4 months ago:
Tampa Bay Rays' Ben Zobrist, right, celebrates as he rounds third base after hitting a two-run pinch-hit homer off Oakland Athletics reliever Andrew Bailey to tie the...
Many Yankee moments to remember in September
October 09, 2009 by
Baseball Reflections
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The last month of the New York Yankees‘ season could have been anticlimactic – they essentially clinched the AL East when they swept the Boston Red Sox in four games in August. But the Bombers still ended up turning it on throughout the stretch, even when they rested players...
Predicting the Mets' Off-season
October 08, 2009 by
Mike's Mets
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Several weeks ago, I wrote that the Mets would retain Minaya and Manuel and make only enough moves to give the impression that they are trying to improve the team, with an eye on the pocketbook.
Well, M and M are back and Jeff Wilpon is publicly saying that the Mets will spend "...
Steve Henderson: The Fall Guy for B.J. Upton?
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by Chris O'Meara - AP
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Early in the week the Rays' front office and Joe Maddon made the decision to relieve hitting coach Steve Henderson of his duties. The...
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