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Evaluating the 2012 Bowling Green Hot Rods Part 5

To finish our look at a team in the Hot Rods filled with as much promise as any Rays affiliate, we finish with a group of sleepers: the bullpen. A-ball relievers usually don’t have the highest upside,…Read More

Evaluating The 2012 Bowling Green Hot Rods Part 4

The Rays are an organization built on starting pitching- but the Bowling Green Hot Rods  were an exception in the organization, featuring several of the Rays’ most talented position player prospects…Read More

Evaluating the 2012 Bowling Green Hot Rods Part 3

In the lower levels of the minor leagues, you can find loads of talent but also quite a bit of immaturity. That phrase described the Rays’ Low-A affiliate, the Bowling Green Hot Rods, almost perfectly…Read More

Evaluating the 2012 Bowling Green Hot Rods Part 2

The Bowling Green Hot Rods were the most polarizing team in the Rays system in 2012, showing plenty of promise but having their season marred by four drug suspensions. Today we’ll continue our look…Read More

Evaluating the 2012 Bowling Green Hot Rods Part 1

The sad part about the 2012 Bowling Green Hot Rods is that they will be remembered for all the wrong reasons- that four players, including top prospects Josh Sale and Ryan Brett, tested positive for meth.…Read More

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Rays Notes: Joe Maddon, Matt Moore, Chris Archer, Bowling Green Hot Rods

Things could have gone completely different for Joe Maddon in his managerial career. Scott Miller of…Read More

The Undercards: Hot Rods Eliminated From Postseason, Biscuits Lose Playoff Opener

There is so much variability in baseball. There are always different players thriving and struggling…Read More

The Undercards: Renegades Clinch Homefield, Hot Rods Lose Playoff Opener

It’s September. Every game is crucial for the Rays because you never know which one will make the…Read More

Rays Notes: Mostly Good News… But Rays Affiliate Gets Perfect-Gamed

The Rays managed to get no-hit a remarkable percentage of the time. Now their minor league affiliates…Read More

Breaking Rays News: 2010 First Rounder Josh Sale Next To Go Down For Meth

If the suspensions last week weren’t enough, now another high-profile Rays prospect at the Low-A…Read More

Breaking Rays News: Ryan Brett, Charlie Cononie, Justin Woodall Suspended for Meth

Baseball America has reported that three Rays prospects currently at Low-A Bowling Green, top second…Read More

Parker Markel: From Unlikely Signee to Impressive Prospect

Every year in the last few rounds of draft, teams take fliers on talented players who have next to no…Read More