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Opponents Doing to the Rays What the Rays Used to Do to Them: Stealing Bases
Over the past decade, one of the hallmarks for the Tampa Bay Rays has been their ability to steal bases. Since 2003, the Rays have finished no worse than sixth in all of baseball in stolen bases, and have…Read More
Game 22: Jeremy Hellickson Struggles, Offense Silent as Rays Fall 5-2 to White Sox
So far in 2012, Jeremy Hellickson has struck out noticeably more batters than ever before. After his start on Thursday, he has struck out 26 batters in 31.1 innings pitched, a solid 7.5 per 9 innings,…Read More
Jose Lobaton Has Career Day, But Price Enigmatic As Rays Fall 6-4 to Twins
Jose Lobaton entered spring training with an edge over Chris Gimenez in the Rays’ backup catcher competition. The reason was pretty bizarre: Gimenez had a minor league option and Lobaton did not,…Read More
Why Should The Rays Demote a Superior Catcher in Chris Gimenez Only Because He Has A Minor League Option?
As a major league team, your goal has to be to get your best players on the field on a daily basis. There are certain exceptions to that, with the most notable one being with top prospects, a case where…Read More
Chris Gimenez Is Making a Case To Be The Rays’ Backup Catcher
Typically, Spring Training statistics have as much value as a four dollar bill. After all, last year Munenori Kawasaki led all of baseball in batting average during Spring Training with a .455 batting…Read More
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Why Are the Rays Looking for Depth At Catcher and in the Outfield?
At this point in time, the Rays have far from a perfect team, but they believe they have put together…Read More
Jeff Niemann and Matt Joyce Headline Rays Out of Options Heading Into Camp
Every Spring Training, one of the continual story lines in every camp is the construction of the final…Read More
Could Eli Whiteside’s Next (and Final) Destination Be The Tampa Bay Rays?
Eli Whiteside has had himself one wild ride this offseason. He began with the San Francisco Giants, with…Read More
Rays 2012 Positional Review – Catcher
With the 2012 season for the Rays in the books, it’s time to look back at the season as a whole.…Read More
Should Jose Lobaton Be The Rays Starting Catcher?
The catcher position has been a black hole offensively for much of this season for the Tampa Bay Rays.…Read More
Game 111: Lobaton, Longoria Lead Rays To Sweep
The Rays offense exploded and Matt Moore continued a streak of dominant performances by the rotation…Read More
Could the Rays Acquire George Kottaras?
Because of the Rays’ current catcher situation, every time a catcher is put on the market, we have…Read More
Rays Notes: Welcome, Hideki!
Hideki Matsui has arrived. As Marc Topkin and everybody else tweeted, the ex-Japan Pacific League and…Read More
Game 49: One Mistake Costs Moore in Strikeout-Rampant Pitcher’s Duel
We saw the Matt Moore we were waiting to see. We also saw fellow lefty Chris Sale for the White Sox at…Read More
Reviewing the DL
Every team has to deal with injuries over the course of the season – it is simply an inescapable…Read More
Ivan Rodriguez Retires as Rays Uninterested
The AP and other outlets have reported that 14-time All-Star, 13-time Gold Glover, and future Hall of…Read More
Recapping the Rays’ Rapid-Fire Roster Moves
The last couple days in Boston have not been fun for the Rays. Hopefully that’s about to change.…Read More
RCG Rays 2012 Season Preview: Jose Lobaton
The Rays acquired Jose Molina this offseason- not exactly a high profile offensive catcher. Molina will…Read More
The Importance of the Stopgap
Every team in baseball wants to have a premium player at every position. Unfortunately, we know that…Read More
Around the Twitterverse: The Start of Spring
Spring Training officially got underway last Monday, but the first full squad workout was Sunday. The…Read More
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