Josh Hamilton

  • [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss A Lil’ Longo, A New Knuckleballer, And Developing Hitters

    [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss A Lil’ Longo, A New Knuckleballer, And Developing Hitters

    December 17, 2012 at 9:06 am 6 comments

    I guess the big news this weekend in the land of Raysheads is that Evan Longoria and Jaime Edmondson are expecting a baby. Edmondson sent out the picture at right via her Twitter account. And apparently there was some sort of revelation during one of the Sunday morning NFL preview shows. We […]

     
  • When They Were P-Rays

    March 5, 2011 at 10:58 am 1 comment

    The Princeton Rays have a great gallery of former players. Below are a few of those pictures. You can find the rest of the images on their Facebook page. [Princeton Rays Facebook] [imagebrowser id=7] Likes(0)Dislikes(0)

     
  • [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Old Turf, Extending Joyce And Hamilton’s New Deal

    [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Old Turf, Extending Joyce And Hamilton’s New Deal

    February 12, 2011 at 1:49 pm 2 comments

    Want a one-foot by one-foot piece of the Rays old FieldTurf? It will cost you $25 at next weekend’s FanFest, and all proceeds go to charity. For comparison, the Yankees sold one square-foot chunks of old Yankee Stadium sod for $120. Of course, the Yankees may have missed their price-mark. […]

     
  • Three Of American League’s Ten Best Drafted By Lamar

    Three Of American League’s Ten Best Drafted By Lamar

    November 29, 2010 at 9:00 am 1 comment

    One last note about the 2010 American League awards that is worth noting. Four of the top 10 finishers for AL MVP were drafted by the Rays. And three of those were drafted by Chuck Lamar. 1. Josh Hamilton — 1999, #1 overall 6. Evan Longoria — 2006, #3 overall […]

     
  • More Painful World Series Participant: Burrell Or Hamilton?

    More Painful World Series Participant: Burrell Or Hamilton?

    October 27, 2010 at 11:00 am 24 comments

    Game 1 of the 2010 World Series is tonight, and each team has a slugger that used to be a key member of the Rays organization… Josh Hamilton: Seeing the Rays’ former #1 pick thrive with the Rangers is kinda like breaking up with that one crazy chick in college […]

     
  • Evan Longoria Was The 3rd Biggest Bargain In Baseball This Year

    October 14, 2010 at 12:07 pm 10 comments

    Here is a snippet from my latest at Business Insider…. Of the 20 biggest bargains in baseball, only five (25%) are pitchers despite making up nearly half of most rosters. While teams will always need good pitching to be successful, this shows that teams are more likely to find value […]

     
  • [THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss CC’s Golden Glove, Maddon’s Papi Reversal And The ’96 Yankees

    July 6, 2010 at 6:46 am 16 comments

    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: John Jaso. Recently, any time the Rays would get the bases loaded with no outs, our initial reaction has been “oh crap.” But JJ […]

     
  • Josh Hamilton May Have Fallen Off The Wagon

    Josh Hamilton May Have Fallen Off The Wagon

    August 8, 2009 at 12:46 pm 16 comments

    [Update] Josh confirmed the photos and admits that he was drinking. Says it was an isolated incident. “I’m embarrassed about it, personally, for the Rangers, for my wife, my children and my family,” Hamilton said at his locker with a handful of his teammates joining the crowd of media that […]

     
  • [THEO EPSTEIN] Theo Epstein Knows Little About Why Rays Are Winning

    June 28, 2008 at 2:51 pm 5 comments

    Red Sox GM Theo Epstein appeared on Cal Ripken’s XM Radio show, Ripken Baseball. Epstein was asked about the sudden surge of the Tampa Bay Rays. “Obviously they’ve been picking at the top part of the draft for the better part of a decade now and they haven’t missed with […]

     
  • [THE HANGOVER] Garza 1-Hits The Marlins

    [THE HANGOVER] Garza 1-Hits The Marlins

    June 27, 2008 at 10:17 am 2 comments

    THE GOOD: Matt Garza. Nothing we can write will give justice to just how dominating Garza was yesterday. 108 pitches, 76 for strikes. 1 hit, 1 walk. Faced only 1 over the minimum. 7 1-2-3 innings. Garza was strike-one to 19 of 28 batters (68%). On his bad days, that […]