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Looking Back at the 2012 GCL Rays Part 1

The 2012 season is over for the lowest of the Tampa Bay Rays’ American affiliates, the Rookie-level GCL Rays. The GCL Rays, managed by former Rays catcher Paul Hoover, went 28-32 on the season, third…Read More

The Undercards: Archer, Bulls 4-Hit Norfolk as Rays Affiliates Go 7-0

Always great when everybody wins. Add in the Rays victory (although we had to stay up late on Saturday night to see it), and what a day it was for the Rays organization. And it wasn’t just the fact…Read More

Rays Notes: Longoria, Injuries, Hawkins, Autographs, Star Wars

Evan Longoria is the headline every day for the Rays right now, but his quote from Andrew Friedman was positive for once. Does #Rays Friedman expect Longoria to play again this season? “Yeah, I definitely…Read More

Rays Notes: Rays Get Their Man in Catcher Taylor Hawkins

Possibly the Rays’ most interesting pick in the entire 2012 MLB Draft was 12th round selection Taylor Hawkins, a 6’0″, 200 catcher out of Carl Albert High School in Oklahoma. He was going…Read More

Analyzing the Rays’ 2012 Draft

The Rays’ 2012 Draft Class began with arguably their safest first round pick ever. And then they preceded, as usual, to select a crazy amount of upside picks with considerable risk but substantial…Read More

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Richie Shaffer Pick Sneaky-Great Pick by Rays

We know that the Rays like a lot of things about Shaffer. They like his power, his plate discipline,…Read More

Taylor Hawkins Could Be THAT Catcher in Round 12

We were all waiting (I was anyway) for the Rays to draft a high school catcher. That didn’t happen…Read More