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Rays News and Notes: MLB Makes “Maddon Rule”

Remember last season when Joe Maddon ruffled some feathers by sending Sam Fuld to the mound to warm up before pulling him without seeing a batter? Well, now there’s a rule to prevent this. Maddon…Read More

Arbitration Deadline Passes; Deals for Upton, Price, and Badenhop

The deadline to sign arbitration eligible players before heading to arbitration hearings passed at 1 PM today. The Rays had five arbitration eligible players. The most noteworthy of those five were BJ…Read More

Zobrist Gets the Hit as Rays Lose

The Rays offense only managed one hit for hitting coach Derek Shelton’s birthday today against the Mariners in Seattle. Alex Cobb suffered his first loss and is now 3-1 The Mariners took an early…Read More

The 2011 Season Simulation

We are currently in the day-and-age of technology. Anyone who says that they don’t have a cell phone, probably remembers what it was like to hear music through an eight-track player, sorry guys but…Read More

JP Done For The Year

JP Howell had shoulder surgery yesterday on his Labrum, that will put him out until the beginning of the season next year. Howell, started the season on the DL with a weak shoulder and took necessary time…Read More

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Price and Longo Shining For The Rays During Homestand

The Rays managed to end the homestand against the Mariners and Indians winning 4 out 5. But none of the…Read More

Could Hellickson Land Rotation Spot?

There is always a rule of thumb for Spring Training, don’t read too much into it.  I generally…Read More

Rays 25 Man Roster Prediction

With players trickling into camp Sunday and this morning I figured it was time to do my Annual Roster…Read More

Keith Law Thinks Rays Have Third Best Farm System

3. Tampa Bay Rays The Rays have graduated a fair amount of talent in recent years but continue to come…Read More

Stubborn Joe

This post was written by a regular contributor on the Pewter Plank, our draft guru, John Crimmins. In…Read More

Tampa Bay Rays Midseason Grades

MVP - Ben Zobrist I even had a little issue typing that out myself,  and I know a lot of people will…Read More

7 Game Win Streak Did Little To Improve Standings

After the completion of a 7 game win streak yesterday with a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Rays…Read More

JP Howell Pitches A Perfect 8th In The World Baseball Classic

It wasn’t technically a perfect inning, but Rays reliever JP Howell pitched a 10 pitch, 6 strike,…Read More