Marc Topkin of TampaBay.com is reporting that the Rays are close to signing another Roberto Hernandez. Only this time it is the starting pitcher formerly known as Fausto Carmona who pitched with the Indians the last seven seasons. After a promising 2010 season in which Carmona went 13-14 with a [...]
With all the buzz over the recent trade of James Shields and Wade Davis, this small item got pushed to the back burner. Marc Topkin of TampaBay.com spoke with David Price’s agent about the possibility of Price signing a long-term contract to remain with the Rays beyond the 2015 season when [...]
In an interesting twist that probably won’t go very far, Joel Sherman reports (via Twitter) that “all 5 AL East teams” have contacted the Mets about RA Dickey, the knuckleballer and reigning NL Cy young winner. Dickey has one year left on his deal and negotiations for a long-term contract [...]
Here is James Shields and Wade Davis being introduced this morning to the Royal media. Notice that Shields is wearing #24 (for now) as #33 is currently worn by Jeremy Guthrie and Davis is wearing #22 as #40 is worn by reliever Kelvin Herrera. So no more “WD40″ for Big [...]
Yesterday was David Price day in Tampa as he was awarded a key to the city (Astro also received his own key). While that is a nice little gesture, it is more interesting to speculate on what it means for the relationship between Tampa and St. Pete and the battle [...]
