Are you sitting down? You should probably sit down. In the first inning of his first game with the Oakland A’s, Ben Zobrist hit a no-doubt 2-run home run for the Oakland A’s on the second pitch he saw. To make matters worse, Sam Fuld was the runner on base. […]
The season is not even one game old and the Rays can now add two more players, John Jaso and Burch Smith, to their list of wounded which already includes six players on the disabled list. After walking to lead off the bottom of the first, John Jaso attempted to […]
There are bad signs that attendance at Rays games will actually go down this year. At the same time, TV ratings will undoubtedly remain strong which is the best indicator that the problem with attendance is the stadium, not a lack of interest. But let’s not let facts get in […]
If you have been reading Rays Index for the last couple of weeks then it is no surprise to you that Chris Archer had to alter his routine in order to pitch in game No. 1 instead of game No. 2. Now we have the details via Marc Topkin. By […]
The 2015 Tampa Bay Rays are projected to win 82.6 games and have a 37.0% chance of making the playoffs based on the average of three popular projection system. The three projection systems (PECOTA, Fangraphs, CAIRO) project the statistics for all players and then simulate the season thousands of times. […]
