Prior to the season, the Rays picked up the option on Fernando Rodney’s contract. And at $2.5 million, Rodney will be massively underpaid in 2013. But according to a report in a Dominican Newspaper (via TampaBay.com) Rodney told the newspaper that he was close to signing a two-year extension with [...]
Yesterday, Stuart Sternberg told the Pinellas County Commissioners that only 300 season ticket holders are from the city of St. Pete. We initially heard that these accounts represented “just shy of 1,000 tickets.” Today we have a better idea of what the numbers represent, and if anything, they sound worse [...]
Stuart Sternberg and four other members of the Rays front office are meeting today with Pinellas County Commissioners, one week after meeting with Hillsborough County Commissioners. You can follow along with notes from the meeting at the Twitter account of Shadow of the Stadium. But we already have one damning [...]
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At right is our best look yet at the Rays’ new Spring Training cap. This is from the New Era catalog (via Uni-Watch.com). It is interesting to note (although it probably doesn’t mean much) that only one cap is listed for the Rays. Last week it was reported that there [...]
With the Rays and Kelly Johnson reaching an agreement on a free agent contract, let’s take a look at what the opening day roster might look like based on players currently in the organization… Here are the biggest questions that remain. And as always, you guys are my best editors, [...]
This has been floating around for about a week, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, the folks over at BaseballProspectus had Evan Brunell, a blogger who also happens to be deaf, go over some videos of managers arguing with umpires and use his lip-reading skills to let us [...]
Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com is reporting that the Rays have reached an agreement with second baseman Kelly Johnson. Johnson has played seven seasons in the majors, including the 2012 season with the Blue Jays. He hit .225 with a .313 OBP (.299 wOBA) and 16 home runs. Johnson’s best offensive [...]
As Rays fans we all know that David Price walks to the beat of a different drummer. Here is a picture of Price (via Jonathan Gantt) working out this morning at The Trop…
Good morning Raysheads. Here are a few links to start the week… 620 WDAE reached an agreement to continue broadcasting Rays games over the radio. Also, the 1970s “throwbacks” will back in 2013 “for a game or two.” [TampaBay.com] Noah Pransky has some of the fallout from last week’s meeting [...]
St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster went on 620 WDAE this morning to respond to comments made by the Rays during yesterday’s meeting with Hillsborough County officials. And if you are the optimistic sort, he made some of the most promising comments yet to come from the west side of the [...]
