The Rays have announced that they designated Reid Brignac and Elliot Johnson for assignment. The Rays needed to clear up space on the 40-man roster and both players, who were out of minor league options*, were unlikely to make the opening day roster. The Rays have ten days to trade [...]
![Evan Longoria Helps Recreate Famous Album Cover For ESPN The Magazine [VIDEO]](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BCWWOAfCYAAZgBw-160x120.jpg)
For reasons that are not entirely clear, ESPN the Magazine has an upcoming music issue. And as part of the issue, athletes were used to recreate iconic album covers. Among those were Josh Freeman recreating Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and the Rays’ own Evan Longoria recreating Devo’s “Freedom of Choice” along [...]
[UPDATE] Hayhurst has responded to this post. You can see his comments at the end. Looking through some more excerpts from Dirk Hayhurst’s upcoming book about his time in the Rays organization, we get an interesting, if not very flattering look at Joe Maddon. We also are starting to get [...]
A St. Pete City Council member wants to amend the Rays’ contract with the city to allow them to look at potential stadium sites outside of Pinellas County. There is just one small big catch: They want a big check first (via TBO.com)… Councilman Charlie Gerdes proposes amending the contract [...]
Former Rays minor leaguer pitcher Dirk Hayhurst, who is also a best-selling author, is currently writing a book about his one season in the Rays’ organization. And while he is still working on the book, he is posting rough draft out-takes on his blog, DirkHayhurst.com. The fourth excerpt to make [...]
The Rays invited seven more (non-40-man roster) players to spring training including Wil Myers and Leslie Anderson. In addition, infielder Cole Figueroa, right-handed pitchers Matt Nevarez and Jim Paduch, and lefty Jim Patterson. That brings the total number of spring training invitees to 67. However, three of the players on [...]
A few links to get the week started… Marc Topkin has some good news on Evan Longoria’s hamstring. Longoria says “the leg is ready.” Of course, we have been burned before when we got our hopes up. And the Rays are still expected to “hold him out of early spring [...]
![[HAPPY HOUR] The One Where We Discuss Longoria’s New Camo Spikes, A Half-Naked Zobrist, And Miss Florida’s New Beau](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8083/8435371565_2be5918364_b.jpg)
Evan Longoria spoke to KicksOnFire.com about shoes and revealed this little nugget about what he will where on the field in 2013… “I’m trying to get crazy this year. I’m going to do type of camo [on the new shoe], whether it be regular camo or digi camo on the [...]
Last year, the MLB Fan Cave caused quite a stir around these parts when one of their finalists was supposedly representing the Tampa Bay Rays while also calling herself a Yankees fan. But while the folks with MLB Fan Cave assured us that there was no requirement that all teams [...]
