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Injury News: Niemann Scratched with Blister, Rodney OK After Line Drive
Mark Topkin just tweeted that Jeff Niemann will miss his start Saturday with a blister on his pitching hand. Presumably this is just a precaution, but after Chien-Ming Wang of the division-rival Yankees…Read More
The Importance of the Stopgap
Every team in baseball wants to have a premium player at every position. Unfortunately, we know that such a thing isn’t always possible. You can focus on your farm system but not every player will…Read More
Projecting the Rays’ Opening Day Roster
Just a week and one day until the regular season. We are so close. That being said, we have a better idea of how the Rays roster is going to shake out. Let’s see what we know. Catchers (2): Jose…Read More
Niemann to Start, Davis to the Bullpen the Best Moves for the Rays
Throughout spring training, the big storyline for the Rays has been the competition for the fifth starter job between Jeff Niemann and Wade Davis. The results are finally official: as Mark Topkin reported,…Read More
How Quickly Magic Can Disappear
As Mark Topkin discussed this afternoon, B.J. Upton will likely start the season on the disabled list for the Rays. That’s unfortunate for him and hopefully the Rays will be able to shake off a…Read More
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Rapid Reaction: Price Dominates, Sign of Things to Come?
Unfortunately, no TV tonight, but I’ve been listening to Rays-Pirates on the radio and here are…Read More
Quantifying the Rays’ Hustle
The Rays are defined by how hard they run down to first every groundball. When a Rays player who isn’t…Read More
Andrew Friedman and Spring Training Trades
We’re approaching the end of spring training. The Rays roster appears to be just about set. Now…Read More
How Much of an Edge Do the Rays Receive From Their Baserunning?
One of the things that has defined the way the Rays have played the game of baseball is their aggressiveness…Read More
Appreciate the 8th Starter
Who would want to trade places with a pitcher at the upper levels of the Rays minor league system? Simply…Read More
Relapse: Matt Bush Arrested for DUI, Future in Baseball Back in Question
We’re a society obsessed with second chances. No matter what someone has done, if they have any potential at all to do good, we want to forget about all their misgivings as long as they can succeed.…Read More
Scouting Notes From Spring Training: Everybody Else
Somehow I watched the game. I took enough notes to fill six posts here at Rays Colored Glasses and two more each at Birds Watcher (the FanSided Orioles blog) and Rum Bunter (the Pirates blog) respectively.…Read More
Scouting Notes From Spring Training: The Newcomers
The Rays had a very interesting offseason, signing a few players and making a couple trades. Who are these guys? Just about as importantly, how good are they and how do they look this spring? I got to…Read More
Scouting Notes From Spring Training: The Veterans and Mainstays
After talking about the prospects in my scouting notes this afternoon, we transition to the major leaguers tonight. We’ll arbitrarily start with the major league players who were on the team at least…Read More
Scouting Notes From Spring Training: Hak-Ju Lee and the Prospects
Continuing my analysis on my observation from my trip to spring training, we talk about the prospects that I saw during the three games I attended. Some notes are longer, others shorter, but I made some…Read More
More Than a Game
People say that baseball is “more than just a game.” Do I believe that? Probably. But here we’re talking about one specific game. One game that wasn’t even a game. My dad and I…Read More
How Did He Remember Me?
How was I supposed to respond to that? The game ended. The Red Sox had defeated the Rays 5-0. The teams had begun to file off the field. The Rays moved quickly from the dugout and the bullpen, not embarrassed…Read More
Scouting Notes From Spring Training: Alex Torres and Alex Colome
This past weekend, I got to take a live look at the Rays for three spring training games and while I was there I took scouting notes on every player I possibly could. Today will talk about Alex Torres,…Read More
Random Chance
My dad and I were making arrangements for our trip. One of the final tasks was to get tickets for the Rays-Red Sox game on Saturday night at the Red Sox’ brand new spring training stadium, JetBlue…Read More
Scouting Alex Cobb From Spring Training
I was fortunate enough to witness three Rays spring training games in person this past weekend, and I come back to RCG (and New Jersey) with some interesting things to talk about. I had several different…Read More
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