![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Another Market Inefficiency, The Rays Tuesday Win And Minor League Awards](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hangover-150x150.jpg)
From the “Can’t make this up” pile, Marc Topkin drops this little nugget… …the Rays decided to keep Uchibori, Iwamura’s interpreter the past two years, and gave him a job as a scout in his native Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Just another move proving that the Rays are trendsetters and [...]
Like my pappy always says…throw $200 million at the wall enough times, eventually Arod won’t suck in the playoffs.
Andrew Friedman has made some great moves in his tenure with the Rays, but somebody needs to explain to us what is so amazing about a trade that is essentially a salary dump. The following is a made-up quote, but essentially sums up about 20 different blog posts we have [...]
[Update] The deal is now official per a press release from the Rays. [Update] We have just learned from Buster Olney that the Rays will receive relief pitcher Jesse Chavez from the Pirates. Chavez, 26 is a right-handed pitcher, that played his first full big league season in 2009. A [...]
20070 Last February we performed a meta-analysis of the Rays’ top prospects, in which we built a composite ranking of the top 14 players in the system based on eight different rankings and our own “Trade Value Index“. Let’s take a look back at the list and see how [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Aki’s Option, The Prettiest Pug And Joyce’s D](http://welcometotheshow.mlblogs.com/iwamura.jpg)
The Rays face an interesting dilemma the day after the World Series ends: What to do with Aki Iwamura’s $4.25 million option. While the amount is cheap for what Aki brings to the table, the Rays can find cheaper options in-house. And the Rays are a club where every million [...]
