The Rays announced today that that have traded reliever Burke Badenhop to the Brewers for minor league outfielder Raul Mondesi Jr., son of Raul Mondesi, who played 13 seasons in the big leagues hitting 271 home runs. Mondesi Jr., who just turned 20, just completed his first season in the [...]
Joe is back with his post-game thoughts…. Joe really had to struggle to bring himself to the keyboard after the Rays took a broom up the butt from the Royals today. The Royals! Maybe rock bottom, yet still at 40-35, is a good place for the Rays to be. Maybe [...]
Last night’s loss to the Miami Marlins was about as bad as it gets. The two sides finished the first nine innings tied 3-3, with the Marlins scoring their first run on an error by Sean Rodriguez, with their second and third runs coming after Matt Joyce dropped an easy [...]
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Sun Sports cameras caught this scene in the bullpen last night as Burke Badenhop was told to start warming up. What ensued made us giggle just a little…
Joe is back with his post-game thoughts…. Perhaps the most disturbing realization out of this heinous 5-3 Rays loss is that Baltimore looks like it won’t be taking its rightful place at the bottom of the AL East this season. The Orioles sort of out-Rayed the Rays tonight, befuddling them with [...]
Brandon Gomes and Chris Gimenez have been cut and reassigned to minor league camp. This means, that as expected, Jose Lobaton will be the second catcher and Burke Badenhop will take the final spot in the bullpen. In addition, relievers Ryan Reid and Marquis Fleming have been told they will [...]
It is time to update our look at who is playing where and when during spring training. In short, we can gain some insight into what Joe Maddon and Andrew Friedman have in mind for the regular season by looking at how they are using the players during the spring. CLICK HERE TO SEE [...]
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. Red Sox 8, RAYS 0 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Burke Badenhop. Badenhop did have a wild pitch, but he retired 6 of the 7 batters he faced, [...]
With just two weeks until opening day, the Rays opening day roster is nearly set. Let’s take a look (notes on the projection are below)… A few notes on this projection… LINEUP: Obviously Joe Maddon will still play matchups this season, but SS and C would appear to be the [...]
The Rays rarely like to speak openly about roster decisions before the decisions are made. And part of that is that the Rays are a team that will rarely make a decision before they absolutely have to. However, we can get a good idea of the what the Rays are [...]
