While manager of the Tampa Bay Rays, Joe Maddon would usually come up with a motto for the season, something silly and quirky like “9=8.” Well, Maddon has a new motto for the Cubs this season and it is, well, very Joe Maddon. Last year Maddon went with “Embrace the […]
A wine company called Mano’s has apparently acquired the rights to use MLB team names and is now selling wine in bottles for every team. Even the Rays! The Rays bottle comes filled with a 2013 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon. Certainly Joe Maddon would have approved. Likes(2)Dislikes(0)
Joe Maddon was named National League Manager of the Year following his first season with the Chicago Cubs. Maddon received 18 of the 30 first-place votes, easily out-pacing Mike Matheny of the Cardinals and Terry Collins of the Mets, the two managers who also received first-place votes. This, of course, […]
The Chicago Cubs won the NL Wild Card game on Wednesday night. But the win was overshadowed by a benches-clearing incident in which Jake Arrieta was hit by a pitch. While this was your typical pushing and shoving brawl, filled with sound and fury, but ultimately signifying nothing, the one […]
Joe Maddon was a great manager and any team would be happy to have him. However, there are some early signs that Kevin Cash is the manager the Rays had always hoped for, at least between the white lines. When we talk about what makes a Maddon a great manager, […]
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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. RAYS 3, Yankees 2 (13) (boxscore) THE GOOD: Some games you feel the Rays can’t lose. Some you feel they can’t win. Then there are the […]
Even though Major League Baseball’s tampering investigation against the Chicago Cubs and how they hired Joe Maddon is in its sixth month, and even though one report said the Rays had proof of tampering, it sounds like the investigation will be concluded without any discipline being leveled against the Cubs. […]
It has been more than five months since the Chicago Cubs hired Joe Maddon and the Tampa Bay Rays asked Major League Baseball to investigate the move. Despite several reports that the case would be resolved before the start of the regular season, we are now into the second week […]
We have spoken at length around these parts about how losing Joe Maddon and Andrew Friedman may not mean much on the field. The Rays are a data-driven team with a clear idea of how they want to build a team and how they want that team to lineup and […]
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Unlike the statistical projection systems, Las Vegas is much less bullish on the Tampa Bay Rays this season. According to the online sportsbook Bovada, the Rays have an over/under win total betting line of 78.5 wins. The 78.5 win total ranks 12th in the American League and last in the […]
