Archive for March 2nd, 2015

  • Steven Souza

    Rays have no ‘elite’ prospects according to minor league expert

    March 2, 2015 at 4:27 pm 6 comments

    John Sickels of the highly-respected Minor League Ball has released his annual list of the top 20 prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays farm system and a couple of things stand out. The first is that Sickels did not give any Rays prospects an A grade, his grade for elite […]

     
  • Yunel Escobar was upset when he was traded by the Rays

    Yunel Escobar was upset when he was traded by the Rays

    March 2, 2015 at 2:44 pm 11 comments

    In the past month and a half Yunel Escobar has been traded twice, has been forced to switch positions, and he wasn’t happy about any of it. Escobar was “upset” about being traded by the Rays to the Oakland A’s as part of the Ben Zobrist deal according to James […]

     
  • Evan Longoria, Alex Cobb, and Asdrubal Cabrera on Photo Day

    [THE HANGOVER] What Rays fans need to know today

    March 2, 2015 at 8:49 am 2 comments

    Veteran relief pitcher Ronald Belisario is a non-roster invitee to Rays spring training camp and his chances of making the team just took a big hit when it was announced he has a broken bone in his non-throwing shoulder. But it is when Balisario broke his shoulder that will leave […]