If you guys read The Hangover each morning, you know that Jeff Niemann has been a different pitcher this year. That is, he is throwing five different pitches with regularity. This new “Crafty” Giraffe is a far cry from the Fastball-Curveball pitcher that first made his debut with the Rays [...]
Earlier today we looked at how the payroll has changed through the years. Now let’s compare the evolution of the payroll to the Rays’ average attendance through the years. And to our surprise, there is more correlation than we would have expected. Payroll values are in millions… It is hard [...]
CHART: The Rays Amazingly Improbable Comeback
Today is opening day for the 14th time in franchise history. During that time, 67 different players have started on opening day for the (Devil) Rays. Here is a word cloud (created usingWordle.net) showing each of the 67 players. The size of their names is relative to how many times [...]
i was working on my “Chart of the Day” feature over at Business Insider and was trying something new, a word cloud (created using Wordle.net). And I thought it would be fun to see what it would look like over here. So here are all 43 players that have played at [...]
Nothing too fancy here. Just a look at the Rays 62-man Spring Training roster and how it breaks down by age. Players in grey are spring training invites that are not on the 40-man roster. The average age of the spring roster is 27.8. Considering the average big leaguer peaks [...]
