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There is a major irony in spring training–everyone comes to see the stars, but it is usually the unknowns who decide who wins and loses. Of course, that ...
Robbie Knopf|
When the Tampa Bay Rays' spring training season begins, Nate Karns will be the pitcher on the mound. He will be hoping not only to start the Rays' exhibi...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays have learned time and again how critical it is to have bullpen depth. Take last season–the Rays thought they would have an effective r...
Robbie Knopf|
In 2011, Mike Montgomery pitched so well in spring training that he nearly cracked the Kansas City Royals' Opening Day rotation. Nearly four years later, h...
Robbie Knopf|
It is always fun for fans to see prospect lists and hear more about their team's potential impact players of the future. The latest one that has come out i...
Robbie Knopf|
The player who Asdrubal Cabrera is replacing, Ben Zobrist, possessed not just the talent but the willingness to play all over the field as necessary. Cabre...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays organization tops affiliated baseball with 16 drug suspensions since the start of the 2012 season. This is the team that had Josh Lueke ...
Robbie Knopf|
In 2014, in his first time through the arbitration process, Ernesto Frieri made $3.8 million. This coming season, meanwhile, he is guaranteed to make just ...
Robbie Knopf|
Spring training has already begun, so it is a great time to talk about all of the competition the Tampa Bay Rays are set to have. With the news breaking re...
Robbie Knopf|
The Tampa Bay Rays have certainly not given up on winning in 2015. However, this coming season will mark the least confident that Rays fans have been about...
Robbie Knopf|
Josh Sale's time in the Tampa Bay Rays organization featured plenty of controversy. We thought it was bad enough when he faltered in his first professional...
Robbie Knopf|
Entering spring training in 2014, Juan Carlos Oviedo was considered a lock to crack the Tampa Bay Rays' Opening Day bullpen. After all, the Rays had signed...
Robbie Knopf|
Welcome back to the RCG Mailbag, where we take some of those burning Tampa Bay Rays questions on your mind and attempt to give you some answers. The easies...
Robbie Knopf|
The chances are that if you’ve been a loyal Tampa Bay Rays fan for a while, then you know the name Carl Crawford quite well. He was a former outfielder a...
Andrew Garrison|
Tampa Bay Rays middle infielder Nick Franklin is a switch-hitter that is decidedly better from the left side. That is something that we have known for a wh...
Robbie Knopf|
There have been whispers about Nick Franklin's eventual need to move off shortstop for most of his professional career. In each of the six seasons since th...
Robbie Knopf|
Welcome back to the RCG Mailbag, where we take some of those burning Tampa Bay Rays questions on your mind and attempt to give you some answers. The easies...
Robbie Knopf|
It seems extremely likely that the Tampa Bay Rays will trade David DeJesus if they deem Steven Souza to be big league-ready. After all, DeJesus is owed $5 ...
Robbie Knopf|
Josh Hamilton, B.J. Upton, Delmon Young, Tim Beckham, Josh Sale, and Taylor Guerrieri are six Tampa Bay Rays first round picks who became known for issues ...
Robbie Knopf|
For the first time in recent memory, the Tampa Bay Rays will have a series of competitions for starting jobs in spring training. There are always a few spo...
Robbie Knopf|
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