Archive for January, 2008

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  [THE HANGOVER] Rays Acquire Third Baseman, Hope To Magically Make Him A ‘Super-Duper-Utility’ Guy

  January 18, 2008 at 9:21 am 5 comments

  Tampa Bay Rays (27 days until pitchers and catchers report) On Thursday, the Tampa Bay Rays acquired Willy Aybar and Chase Fontaine for Jeff Ridgway. Aybar, who will be 25 on opening day, missed all of 2007 due to a wrist injury suffered in Spring Training and a stint in [...]

   
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  [GETTIN' A DELMON] Delmon Young And Elijah Dukes Appear At The Dugout

  January 17, 2008 at 4:22 pm 0 comments

  Delmon Young and Elijah Dukes may be gone but that does not mean we can’t still make fun of them. In fact, they are more fair-game than ever as we no longer get that guilty feeling of “picking on one of our own”. We must admit, nothing gets us more [...]

   
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  [THE HANGOVER] John Jaso And Dioner Navarro Would Make An Ideal Platoon In 2009

  January 17, 2008 at 9:52 am 8 comments

  Tampa Bay Rays (28 days until pitchers and catchers report) Rays Anatomy points to a Jim Callis chat at ESPN.com in which Callis believes the Rays catcher in 2010 will be John Jaso. We are big believers in Jaso, a 12th-round selection in the 2003 draft, and eagerly await the [...]

   
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  [GREG DUPAS] Greg Dupas Holds The Ball Like An Egg And The Batters Scramble It

  January 16, 2008 at 12:51 pm 4 comments

  Last week we unveiled our Meta-Analysis of the Rays top prospects. Nowhere to be found on the list is the prospect pictured above, Greg Dupas (the one standing). Dupas was an undrafted free agent signing by the Rays in 2003. After missing all of 2004, Dupas rebounded in 2006 with [...]

   
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  [THE HANGOVER] The Rays Drop $2.9 Million On Seventh Inning Pitcher

  January 16, 2008 at 8:55 am 7 comments

  Tampa Bay Rays (29 days until pitchers and catchers report) The Rays came to an agreement with Dan Wheeler on a one year contract for $2.875 million, avoiding arbitration. The salary will give Wheeler the 5th highest salary on the Rays in 2008, behind only Carl Crawford ($5.25 million), Troy [...]

   
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  [THE HANGOVER] Carlos Pena Tells Us Nothing…Some Seem To Think It Is Newsworthy

  January 15, 2008 at 9:55 am 1 comment

  Tampa Bay Rays (30 days until pitchers and catchers report) Just the links today. DEVIL RAYS WEBTOPIA… We have updated our Meta-Analysis of Top Prospects to now include the “Cursory Top Prospect Post” from Rays of Light. Their post is worth a read if just to read the reasoning for [...]

   
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  [RI CONFIDENCE GRAPH] Introducing The Rays Index Confidence Graph

  January 14, 2008 at 3:30 pm 13 comments

  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 [...]

   
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  [THE HANGOVER] The Tampa Bay Rays Are Promising As Much As $300 Million For Local Schools With New Stadium

  January 14, 2008 at 10:36 am 0 comments

  Tampa Bay Rays (31 days until pitchers and catchers report)The Tampa Bay Rays claim that as much as $800 million in new local taxes will be generated for St. Petersburg over the next 35 years due to the redevelopment of the Tropicana Field site. As part of the proposal for [...]

   
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  [FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR] Joe Maddon Considers Mediocrity A ‘Reasonable Goal’

  January 11, 2008 at 3:24 pm 6 comments

  We love Joe Maddon. We really do (Actually, not all of us love Papa Joe. DRG hates Maddon and and threatens to punch me in the face every time I write something that even remotely supports him). Even though we love Papa Joe, we admit that we can be hard [...]

   
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  [THE HANGOVER] Five To Compete For Final Two Spots In Rotation

  January 11, 2008 at 10:34 am 1 comment

  Tampa Bay Rays (34 days until pitchers and catchers report) DEVIL RAYS WEBTOPIA… With three spots in the rotation spoken for (Scott Kazmir, James Shields, Matt Garza), Joe Maddon stated that five pitchers will compete for the final two spots including Edwin Jackson, Andy Sonnanstine, Jeff Niemann, Jason Hammel and [...]