Matt Garza avoided arbitration this weekend when he signed a one-year, $9.5 million deal with the Chicago Cubs. Meanwhile, another former Rays pitcher, Edwin Jackson, signed a one-year deal with the Nationals for $10 million, as a free agent. That is For fun, let’s take a look at how much [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss The Yankees Rotation, And The Rays Bullpen](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/12/10/edwin_jackson.jpg)
Off-Season (click image for random Wikipedia page) The Yankees “desperately” want to add a #2 starter to their rotation according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. And the two leading candidates should be very familiar to Rays fans. The Yankees desperately seek a No. 2 starter, and fortunately for them, [...]
Rays Offered Cardinals Choice Of Starting Pitcher For Rasmus
Tonight the Rays face Scott Kazmir for just the second time since he was traded to the Angels for Sean Rodriguez and two prospects. This Saturday is the one year anniversary of that deal, a move that was made even though the Rays were just 3.5 games out in the [...]
And for the third time in less than a year, the Rays were no-hit. This wasn’t a perfect game, but this one might have been more painful as it came from the right arm of former Ray Edwin Jackson. Jackson walked 8, hit another batter and threw a whopping 149 [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Burrell For Bradley, Crawford’s Extension And Edwin Jackson](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hangover7-150x150.jpg)
Just a few links this morning to clear out the inbox. DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA… We have heard these exact sentiments previously, but Buster Olney is reporting that the Rays will only trade Pat Burrell to the Cubs for Milton Bradley if the deal is on their terms. In other words, [...]
Much has been made about how well Edwin Jackson is pitching for Detroit. Of course, his emergence is only magnified with Matt Joyce still in triple-A and even more so by the recent demotion of Andy Sonnanstine. Well, if that makes you want to vomit, then you will definitely want [...]
Edwin Jackson threw 135 pitches in his last start prior to Sunday. How tired was his arm yesterday in the follow-up start? So tired he threw 8 shutout innings to lower his ERA to 2.30, second only to Zach Greinke in the AL. He gave up 2 hits, 1 walk [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Percivillian Moments And ZORILLA!](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/3552698685_44efdd31f0_m.jpg)
Time to bring back 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: Ben Zobrist. Think Troy Percival, only like the *exact* opposite, and that is Zorilla…Matt Garza. He was in danger of [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Maddon’s Inexplicable Use Of A Backup Over Burrell With Game On The Line](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/3527551873_f2f162a21a_m.jpg)
Time to bring back 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: Edwin Jackson. Nuke has a 2.60 ERA and a 35-to-11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Wait. What? That’s not good? He is pitching [...]
