![[NEWSPAPER BLOGS] Strange Things Are Afoot At The Heater](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-5980650272673020836.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
The Heater, a Rays blog hosted by the St. Pete Times has a post today referring to an ESPN.com chat hosted by Sean McAdam. The focus of the chat is which team will be better in 2010, The Tampa Bay Rays or the Florida Marlins. The focus of the chat [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] An In Depth Look At James The Greater](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-7703794645961828662.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
Tampa Bay Rays (14 days until pitchers and catchers report) Baseball Prospectus profiles James Shields. Take five minutes to read this and you will know more about James the Greater than you thought possible. Two things stood out to us: 1) Shields scouting report from Baseball America’s list of the [...]
![[PETER KING] Peter King Jumps On The Tampa Bay Rays Bandwagon](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2201/2232185984_4ed86ef90c.jpg)
The Mighty MJD took the following picture at Radio Row in Phoenix. Maybe the Tampa Bay Rays new what they were doing when they decided for an image overhaul. Let us get this straight…The Yankees get LeBron James, the Red Sox get Jennifer Garner, and the Rays get Peter King? [...]
![[DELMON YOUNG] Delmon Young Does Not Have Makings Of A Winner](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-1186188737013216208.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
Patrick Reusse of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune wrote a piece entitled “Young has makings of winner” in which he offers evidence that Delmon Young is an adequate replacement for Torii Hunter. Twins followers now have the choice of continuing to lament the departure of the productive, gregarious Hunter, or to be [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] National Media Knows More About Rays Prospects Than The Major League Roster](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-8973075938667958912.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
Tampa Bay Rays (15 days until pitchers and catchers report)Today is national croissant day, which of course means that we are making American croissants for breakfast. DEVIL RAYS WEBTOPIA… Just in case Marc Topkin is looking for material today, here are two more positions that the Rays are trying to [...]
![[JOHAN SANTANA] Johan Santana Traded To The Mets; Rays Dodge Bullet](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-4982001676444959086.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
USA Today (via MLB Trade Rumors) is reporting that the Twins have agreed to a deal with the Mets for Johan Santana. The deal is pending the Mets and Santana reaching agreement on a six- or seven-year contract extension and that Santana passes a physical; they have been granted a [...]
![[ST. PETE TIMES KOOL-AID] Marc Topkin Auditions For Role In Rays Personnel Office](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-2961681015085918656.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
We are not sure why Marc Topkin is serving as a recruiter for the Tampa Bay Rays and posting job ads in his blog. We thought that was what the classifieds were for. The Rays are holding open casting calls this week for members of the Ray Team…The Rays are [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] Trying To Find A Common Ground In Hall Of Fame Debates](http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/25315247-402934054100916475.gif?l=raysindex.blogspot.com)
Tampa Bay Rays (16 days until pitchers and catchers report)One our regular commenters, is starting to expand his horizons with a contributing piece at The Baseball Analysts. We were tempted to dedicate an entire post entitled “Why The Devil Rays Commenters Suck: Bob Rittner”, but were afraid nobody would get [...]
![[RI CONFIDENCE GRAPH] The Rays Index Confidence Graph: 9 Weeks Until Opening Day](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2197/2225794487_b4f9ebe9e5_o.jpg)
The RI Confidence Graph will appear every Monday and is a look at how much confidence we have in the Tampa Bay Rays at this moment. The graph is designed to give us a look at how our emotional bias as Rays fans fluctuates through time. The “confidence” in the [...]
![[THE PROFESSOR] Cork Gaines Has Joined The Staff At MLB Trade Rumors](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2413/2226539700_d25d780f00.jpg)
Ricky Henderson would be so proud… Just wanted to take a moment and let you guys know that I have accepted an invitation to write a regular feature at MLB Trade Rumors. We have long been fans of Tim Dierkes’ site and have watched it grow into one of the [...]
