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September 1st is here and the roster dynamic in Major League Baseball will shift quite a bit in the next month. The usual 25-man rosters will be up to a ma...
Robbie Knopf|
We focus so much on individual performances in these minor league recaps, but for once, let's talk about who will make the playoffs. Another Tampa Bay Rays...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays' offense stepped up on Monday night against the Baltimore Orioles, but the story so often has been that their bats have found themselves...
Robbie Knopf|
On TV broadcasts of MLB games, some players get fresh starts while others do not. When a player is traded–or signed, claimed off waivers, etc.–from one...
Robbie Knopf|
Blake Snell's tremendous 2015 season is beginning to draw to a close, as dictated by his workload. He is currently at 129 innings pitched, his career-high ...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays went into today’s game having dropped six straight to the Kansas City Royals. Considering how badly the Rays have been playing and how...
David Egbert|
He is back here again. There were a few weeks where Evan Longoria was hitting like crazy, but his latest slump brought him down to a .266/.327/.411 line in...
Robbie Knopf|
Much of the Tampa Bay Rays' loss on Friday can be blamed on a blown call at first base in the third inning. With two outs, Logan Forsythe hit a groundball ...
Robbie Knopf|
Tonight, Ben Zobrist will finally come home as a member of the Kansas City Royals. Tampa Bay Rays fans will thank him for his seven excellent years with th...
Robbie Knopf|
What does one great start truly tell us? The answer is usually "probably very little." At Rookie ball, though, the equation is a little bit diffe...
Robbie Knopf|
J.P. Arencibia must have chuckled a little bit when he saw Curt Casali hit for so much power with the Tampa Bay Rays. At the time of Casali's call-up, he h...
Robbie Knopf|
One of my least favorite things to see in sports is when frustrated fans go from hating a struggling player's performance into hating him as a person. In ...
Robbie Knopf|
By Major League Baseball rules, teams are allowed to expand their active rosters on the first of September. Players promoted have to be on the current 40-m...
David Egbert|
One year after leading the American League in saves and three after one of the greatest seasons by a reliever in major league history, Fernando Rodney was ...
Robbie Knopf|
A few Tampa Bay Rays affiliates followed the cue of the big club and had pitching struggles of their own on Tuesday. The Montgomery Biscuits were decidedly...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays offense looked very good on Tuesday night, but the pitching was a total disaster and two injuries were a further downer as the team lost...
Robbie Knopf|
We can say with certainty now that Matt Moore will be back with the Tampa Bay Rays at the beginning of September. His first six starts in the majors after ...
Robbie Knopf|
It's always difficult to figure out what to make of stretches of great games or terrible ones. Is there any meaning to the order in which things occurred ...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays' starting rotation looked to be one of the best in baseball prior to the start of the 2015 season. They had an ace in Alex Cobb, good yo...
Peter M. Gordon|
It is always nice to see struggling pitching prospects find their way, whether after a few bad outings or following concerning peripherals in previous sta...
Robbie Knopf|
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