Dirk Hayhurst, a former Rays minor league pitcher, made some waves last week when he accused Clay Buchholz of using an illegal substance while pitching against the Blue Jays. Hayhurst, a Blue Jays announcer who is also writing a book about his time in the Rays organization, stuck by his [...]
Yesterday we heard that the Yankees aren’t planning to “make a hard charge” for Carl Crawford. The feeling is that the Yankees are content with Brett Gardner in left field and would rather spend money elsewhere. But at least one “rival GM” (*cough*Theo Epstein *cough*) thinks the Yankees are just [...]
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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. click above image for boxscore THE GOOD: 1,256. That is the number of regular season and postseason games Carl Crawford played in a Rays uniform. Last [...]
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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. Sorry for the delay today. You guys killed our server last night, which is both amazing and humbling. But don’t worry, we are in the process [...]
The rest of the 29 teams in baseball have long been viewed as a farm system for the Yankees by that segment of The Evil Empire that believes they should have a future Hall-of-Famer at every position. And really, it is hard to argue, considering the Yankees rarely fail to [...]
[Update] ESPN.com is reporting that Cliff Lee has been traded to the Rangers for Justin Smoak and three others. It is too bad they couldn’t wait a few hours but it is nice to see Lee is not going to the Yankees. [Update] Joel Sherman is reporting (via Twitter) that [...]
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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. THE GOOD: Carl Crawford. Plain and simple. As of July 9, 2010, he is the greatest Tampa Bay Ray that ever lived and one of the [...]
Earlier this week we heard that the Rays might be interested in trading for Cliff Lee. Now we learn from Jayson Stark that the Rays have inquired about a couple of hitters… Despite an eruption of rumors linking them to Cliff Lee, the Rays are spending almost all of their [...]
Our old friend Peter Gammons reported a short while ago (via Twitter) that the Rays and Mariners could be discussing a deal that would include BJ Upton and Cliff Lee… Rumblings around St. Pete ballpark was a BJ Upton-Cliff Lee deal. 3-way? OK. Let’s ignore for a second that shock [...]
Just when you were starting to feel better about Rays comes this news from Ken Rosenthal… The Yankees are going to end up with Mariners left-hander Cliff Lee. The only question is whether they land him in a trade this summer or as a free agent this winter — and [...]
