CORRECTION Yankees Rays BaseballThe GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe.

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SUNBURST PLAYER OF THE GAME: Evan Longoria (BJ Upton on Friday and Jeff Niemann on Saturday)

DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA…

  • Alex Rodriguez’ 7 RBI in one inning yesterday set an AL Record. [The Heater]
  • BJ Upton’s 5 hits on Friday tied the franchise record, and his 6 RBI were one short. [St. Pete Times]
  • The Rays finished the season 84-78, 19 games back in the AL East in third place.
  • Ben Zobrist was the runaway winner of the Rays team MVP as voted on by the local writers. [Rays Report]
  • 5 players (not including Edwin Jackson) from the Rays 2008 AL East championship squad are back in the playoffs this season. [Tampa Tribune]
  • The Rays will have the 16th pick of next year’s draft. That is a bit unlucky. Not that we expect the Rays to sign another big-name free agent, but should the Rays sign a Type A free agent, they would surrender their first round pick. Had they been just one slot higher (top 15), their first-round pick would have been protected.
  • Marc Topkin reviews the 2009 season with “five critical moments.” [St. Pete Times]
  • Marc Lancaster also reviews the 2009 season. [Tampa Tribune]
  • Marc Topkin also looks at what it is going to take to get back to the playoffs next year. [St. Pete Times]
  • The Rays Party reviews the first Mock Draft with the Rays taking, of course, a tools outfielder. [The Rays Party]
  • Despite missing most of September, Carlos Pena finished the season tied as the top home run hitter (39) in the AL.
  • Big League Stew memorializes the Rays season. [Big League Stew]
  • Sid Hartman writes that the Matt Garza-Jason Bartlett-Delmon Young trade is no longer as one-sided as many have thought. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
  • The Rays starting pitchers threw a lot of pitches this season. [The Rays Party]
  • Bob Nightengale says that other teams have been scouting BJ Upton and believe the Rays will trade him this winter. [MLB Trade Rumors]
  • NY Baseball Digest wonders if the Mets have a shot at trading for BJ Upton. [NY Baseball Digest]
  • Rays the Stakes wonders if Carl Crawford has played his last game for the Rays. [Rays the Stakes]
  • Ken Rosenthal says Carl Crawford’s willingness to sign an extension is “well intentioned” but doubts the Rays will be able to match even a hometown discount. [MLB Trade Rumors]
  • Gregg Zaun hopes to return to the Rays next season. [St. Pete Times]
  • Matt Moore was named the third best prospect in the SAL, and Tim Beckham is fifth. [Baseball America]
  • Watching Durham Bulls Baseball handed out the first “Moonlight Graham Awards.” [Watching Durham Bulls Baseball]