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If you feel bad about Conor Gillaspie's home run to give the Chicago White Sox a 4-3 lead against the Tampa Bay Rays last night, here is a reason to feel a...
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If I could have, I would have published all of these Tampa Bay Rays MLB Draft profiles as soon as each pick was made. One of the benefits of writing them ...
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Poor relief work can be the most frustrating thing in baseball. You can get a great start and solid run support, but then a reliever can come in, give up ...
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Round 26: when I finally encountered a Tampa Bay Rays draft pick for whom I could not find any semblance of a scouting report. Don't worry, though–I'll ...
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Before we get to Devin Davis' critical overarching place in the Tampa Bay Rays' draft strategy, let's talk about his abilities as a player. Davis is a 6'3&...
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With the selection of right-hander Jesus Ortiz from Miguel Melendez Munoz High School in Round 24, the Tampa Bay Rays did something they had not done since...
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Hopefully we'll soon get back to doing just a game recap at night and then a minor league recap in the morning, but as we combine both into one piece for t...
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Velocity is always going to be the first thing that teams look for in pitchers–you can teach secondary offerings, but it's much more difficult to teach 9...
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Just from Rounds 2 to 4 of the 2014 MLB Draft, the Tampa Bay Rays selected three pitchers out of high school. This year, however, it wasn't until the 22nd ...
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Before we return to our regularly scheduled MLB Draft programming, let's get through this recap and a quick analysis of the Tampa Bay Rays' interesting ros...
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Just through Round 21, there are significant questions why the following Tampa Bay Rays draft picks were still available when the Rays selected them: Chris...
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Porter Clayton's career could have been in an entirely different place. The left-hander was well enough regarded coming out of Bonneville High School in Id...
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There is a lot more MLB Draft content ahead today, but let's quickly go through what happened to the current players in the Tampa Bay Rays system yesterday...
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Nicholas Padilla went from going undrafted out of Cardinals Spellman high school in 2014 to being the Tampa Bay Rays' 13th round pick a year later. That wa...
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The 11th round starts the third day of the MLB Draft, and it isn't an arbitrary cutoff. Beginning with the 11th round, teams no longer face penalties for ...
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As you have seen lately on the site, I am really in draft mode right now. Rounds 11 through 40 are coming today and the plan is the same as it has been eve...
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At the end of the day, the Tampa Bay Rays drafted four pitchers from four-year colleges in the 2015 MLB Draft (plus a potential fifth in current 2B Jacob C...
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Considering how laughable all of the first round MLB mock drafts look right now, it is an exercise in futility to try too hard to predict who any team will...
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High school catchers are becoming a tradition for the Tampa Bay Rays, and none of them have made the major leagues. Justin O'Conner is the best of the bunc...
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