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“Life is just a fantasy can you live this fantasy life?”
While this blog isn’t about fantasy, fantasy is pervasively entrenched with baseball. Besides the obvious fantasy baseball most...
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March 12, 2011
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Rays Colored Glasses: The Cuts Start Here
The Tampa Bay Rays made the first cuts of spring training today. Among them was former first round pick Matt Bush, who is hoping for something akin to a Josh Hamilton-esque revival. Bush was a high school short stop drafted by the San Diego Padres with the first pick of the 2004 draft. Like many young athletes who didn’t grow up with money, the $3.15 million he was paid by...
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March 11, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: Favorite Son Returns, Sort of
13 was a lucky number for Rays fans
When Carl Crawford first put on a Tampa Bay Devil Rays jersey no one really knew the impact he would make both on the team and in the community. Today as he stood in front of fans at the Charlotte Sports Park, the cheers were plenty if not mixed. One fan shouted “Carl we love you, but that’s the last time” shortly before he popped...
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March 10, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: Chirinos Churning
In an earlier post I had profiled Robinson Chirinos as a potential sleeper to make the Tampa Bay Rays roster. Through yesterday’s games, (see stats below) it seems difficult to think he won’t make the team out of camp.
Chirinos isn’t exactly young for a prospect, but as I had detailed, his renaissance started in 2008, and what he has shown so far is in line with...
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March 10, 2011
Does The Show Fit On The Other Foot?
We in the blogosphere can be a fickle bunch! It’s our job in the media to create drama and stir emotions. Drama and emotions are why we follow sports. Some times however even those of us who cover the game can lose our objectivity.
Case in point: Allow me to take you back to a post written by our Pirates site, Rum Bunter. If you haven’t had a chance to read this...
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March 09, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: “The Extra 2%” is a must read…
As a Tampa Rays fan and blogger I talk about the “brain trust” behind the amazing turnaround of the Rays. As a baseball fan, I can’t wait to get the book “The Extra 2%:How Wall Street Strategies Took a Baseball Team from Worst to First” by Jonah Keri. It’s the buzz among baseball writers and fans right now, and should be a must have for any truly rabid Tampa Bay Rays...
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March 09, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: A Look at Chris Archer, SP
Chris Archer was a key piece in the Matt Garza trade this past offseason. Like any curious fan I have read a lot about him over the past few weeks, trying to gain a perspective on why he was considered such a prize. While he was named the Cubs’ 2010 Minor League it’s pretty common knowledge that the Rays already have several pitchers in their system that are comparable...
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March 05, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: 1B Position Battle
The Rays dropped another game yesterday in Dunedin. The Toronto Blue Jays were able to walk-off with a 5-4 victory, getting the better of David Price in the process. It’s not Price however, that I chose to dissect today.
Position Battles are always the talk of Spring Training and so I will start with a very interesting one in Tampa…First Base!
Brian Blanco...
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March 03, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: Diamond in the Rough, Robinson Chirinos
One thing that has consistently set the Stu Sternberg run Tampa Bay Rays has been player development. One only has to look at teams like the Kansas City Royals or Baltimore Orioles to realize that just getting high draft picks doesn’t guarantee success. Who you draft, how you development and how you move the pieces across the virtual chess board to acquire additional players...
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March 02, 2011
Recap: Rays @ Orioles
The Rays fell victim to the new-look Orioles today in Sarasota, 12-6. Andy Sonnanstine started the game for the Rays and he may have been better off had he stayed home today. Sonnanstine pitched the first two innings of the afternoon affair, allowing six earned runs. The biggest concern is that he allowed those six runs on five HRs. For someone who is suppose to be a leader in an...
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March 01, 2011
Rays Colored Glasses: The AL East all-division All-Star Team
With the vote for the final pitcher spot closed, the AL East FanSided writers have put together the FanSided AL East All-Star pitching squad:
SP – C.C. Sabathia
SP – David Price
SP – Jon Lester
SP – Clay Buchholz
SP – Ricky Romero
SU – Rafael Soriano
CL – Mariano Rivera
Here’s how the voting broke down for the A.L. East writers on...
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March 01, 2011
Rise with the Rays – Tampa Bay Rays News
Rise and Shine with the Rays
Morning Digest of News for the Tampa Bay Rays
Nathan Palatsky of Bleacher Report thinks the Rays are over-rated. It’s getting to be a bit worn, but as it has been over the last few years, there are a lot of skeptics.
Jim Henneman comments on Andy McPhail calling the Rays the “model franchise” in the AL East, or at least the one the Orioles...
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February 27, 2011
Rise with the Rays – News around the web
Rise with the Rays
A smattering of stories where the Tampa Bay Rays take center stage.
Sun Sports to Televise 150 Rays games in 2011
Tampa Bay Rays top Baseball America Charts
Hellickson, Moore, Jennings in top 22
Does Jake McGee want to close? TBO thinks so
John Romano reports that MLB may have an incentive for the Tampa Bay Rays to go away. Attendance, stadium remain unresolved...
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February 24, 2011
Who is Your All-Star? Ricky Romero or Josh Beckett?
We are finalizing our AL East Pre-Season All-Star team that leads in to a competition with the other bloggers at FanSided to see which division can tout the best All-Star team in the majors, and as it did in our voting between Jose Bautista, Nick Markakis and Jacob Ellsbury (which Bautista won handily) for the final OF spot, we’ve a similar issue at the 5th starter for our...
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February 23, 2011
Monday Morning Rays in the News
It’s been a week since pitchers and catchers reported. Here’s a round up of news about the Rays as we head into week two of Spring Training.
Dock of the Rays’ Jason Collette represents in this discussion with other AL East bloggers
Mark Tompkins highlights some of the best Rays game promotions this year, including a Manny Bobblehead and a David Price super hero...
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February 21, 2011
Will Desmond Jennings Make the Cut?
Spring Training is officially underway. Many Pitchers reported to Port Charlotte early but Tuesday marked the official day for all Pitchers and Catchers to report. The teams’ first workout was Wednesday at 10 a.m.. Position players do not need to report until Sunday, February 20 with full-team workouts scheduled to begin the next day.
The new-look Rays will be exciting to...
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February 17, 2011
Joaquin Benoit or $5.5 million? I’ll take the cash…
The Tampa Bay Rays had quite the tumultous off-season, led by the inevitable loss of Carl Crawford and followed by a mass exodus of bullpen staff, including closer Rafael Soriano and Australian flame-thrower Grant Balfour.
Matthew Silverman and Andrew Friedman spent a lot of time apparently on the sideline, watching as middle relievers with questionable pedigree made ridiculously...
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February 16, 2011
AL East All-Star Conundrum
As you may recall, we are gearing up for a Battle Royale amongst the FanSided bloggers for all six divisions in the majors, leading up to what will be determined as the best divisional All-Star team in baseball. If you’ve forgotten or don’t know what the heck I’m rambling about you can check this post I made on February 6th. Our position players are set with the...
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February 15, 2011
David Price named Rays Most Valuable Player for 2010
Higgins Hall in Tampa was the site of the 50th Annual Sports Club of TampaBay Awards Banquet, last night. Bright House Sports Networks’ Drew Fellios was the host for the evenings festivities and wow, he looks like Blake Griffin.
Each year the awards banquet honors professional, as well as amateur athletes throughout the Tampa Bay area. In addition to the MVP Award (given to the...
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February 12, 2011
Is the Tampa Bay Rays Sun Setting?
The baseball world is in a quandry when it comes to assessing the 2011 version of the Tampa Bay Rays. Early in the hot stove league action it was pretty much assumed that the Rays would be battling it out with Baltimore for last place in the AL East after free agency gutted one of the top bullpens of the 2010 season.
There are still plenty of doubters, although I’ll remark...
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February 11, 2011
Rays Off-Season Pitching Report
On Monday I gave you all my hitting grade for this off-season and as promised, here’s my pitching assessment for this off-season. This should provide you with plenty of ammunition for our next Q&A piece.
Pitching:
The Rays have been pulverized in the bullpen this off-season. They lost Randy Choate, Grant Balfour, Joaquin Benoit, Rafael Soriano, and Dan Wheeler. ...
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February 09, 2011
Tampa Bay Rays Q&A with Ben Ice and Kris Dunn
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers! Ben Ice and Kris Dunn are here to field your questions on anything Tampa Bay Rays. Since there have already been some interesting things going on before the season starts, we’ll chum the waters with an obvious one.
The dual-signing of Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon have some people scratching their heads, wondering if the Rays front...
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February 09, 2011
Tampa Bay Rays Designate Ruggiano, Anderson
The Tampa Bay Rays designated OF Justin Ruggiano and 1B/OF Leslie Anderson for assignment today in a move that was anticipated to make room for Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon on the 40 man roster.
Ruggiano, a 25th round pick by the Los Angeles Dodgetrs in 2004, was the player to be named later that concluded a 2006 trade that sent Dioner Navarro and Jae Weong Seo to Tampa for Toby...
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February 08, 2011
Rays Off-Season Hitting Report
There is no question that Major League Baseball has the most exciting off-season of all sports (as much as I enjoy the NFL Draft). The Winter Meetings, for many, are where you truly start to think about, and get excited for, the upcoming season. Pitchers and Catchers don’t report to Spring Training until February 15th but somehow during the month of December all baseball...
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February 07, 2011
AL East Fans – A Call to Arms (and legs, bats, and anything else we can toss into the fray)
One of the things I love about blogging is the ability to post what I want when I want. While I enjoyed my time writing for other sites and magazines, I felt a bit constricted at times, under the direction of over-eager editors, strict word counts and AP Style-Nazi’s. Here I can be as colloquial as I want, and in the end the only critics whose needs are served are the readers...
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February 06, 2011
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