Tom Jones of the St. Pete Times, who writes the blog “Tom Jones’ 2¢,” names the teams he believes have the most and least supportive fans in the major sports. And who gets the honor of the “Least Supportive” fans in Major League Baseball? St. Pete’s own Tampa Bay Rays… […]
Joe Maddon joined Raheem Morris of the Buccaneers and Guy Boucher of the Lightning for a round table discussion of their profession. It was a five-part series, and you can see all the videos at this link. [TBO.com] Likes(0)Dislikes(0)
Back in June, 2008, James Shields plunked Coco Crisp after Crisp had slid a little too hard into second base in a previous game and then mouthed-off about the incident. In an interview with David Laurila of Baseball Prospectus, Crisp offers a rare insight into the makings of a baseball […]
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The GBT - The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. THE GOOD: Robinson Chirinos. We have described Chirinos bat as being similar to John Jaso but with more pop. Well, that pop was on display yesterday […]
The GBT - The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. THE GOOD: Going Deep. Evan Longoria and Sean Rodriguez brought the power to the Rays first game of the spring, with each hitting long home runs…Strong […]
Ken Rosenthal recently wrote a piece in which said there are “rumblings” from some owners that they want to see the Rays (and A’s) contracted. John Romano of the St. Pete Times wrote that “Tampa Bay is now on the clock.” Over at Business Insider I wrote a short piece […]
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What can only be described as “must see TV,” is this video report from JB Long of Bright House Sports. The clip includes a great sequence in which Joe Maddon is actually instructing Manny Ramirez on the art of hitting. And Manny seems receptive to it. Even more fun, JoeMa […]
i was working on my “Chart of the Day” feature over at Business Insider and was trying something new, a word cloud (created using Wordle.net). And I thought it would be fun to see what it would look like over here. So here are all 43 players that have played at […]
This really shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but Carl Crawford confirms that the Rays never offered him a contract. This comes in response to Crawford being asked if his situation was similar to that of LeBron James leaving Cleveland… “No, I didn’t LeBron them at all,” said the Rays […]
Baseball America released their annual list of the top 100 prospects. And the Rays are well represented… Jeremy Hellickson (6) Matt Moore (15) Desmond Jennings (22) Chris Archer (27) Jake McGee (71) Josh Sale (88) Hak-Ju Lee (92) Hellboy was no. 14 on ESPN.com’s Top 100 and no. 2 on […]
