Johnny Damon is looking for a job. So when Curtis Granderson broke his arm, you can imagine Damon was pretty excited, telling Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News that he would play for the Yankees if they called. And yet somehow this turned into an opportunity for Damon [...]
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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. Mets 9, RAYS 6 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Ben Zobrist. Let’s assume Evan Longoria comes back and hits well right away. And let’s say Hideki Matsui continues [...]
Some of you might look at the throw below in which Johnny Damon tries to throw out the lumbering Adam Dunn at home, and you might say that Damon throws “like a girl.” But let’s be honest, 99% of female athletes throw better than this. In reality, Damon looks like [...]
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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. RAYS 4, Tigers 2 (boxscore) THE GOOD: Getting to Verlander. In his first 16 innings of the season, including the first 8 innings yesterday, Verlander allowed [...]
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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. Twins 5, RAYS 3(boxscore) THE GOOD: Jeremy Hellickson. We are not going to say Hellboy was in mid-season form. It was just two innings. But in [...]
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There is a lot to like about the 2012 Rays.And outside of the rotation, the most important news might be the health of Evan Longoria… “I feel great. I think this is the first year I have come in and felt like I am at the right weight. It is [...]
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The Rays added two more players to their spring training roster, including former big league outfielder Jeff Salazar (via Marc Topkin). Salazar has played 168 big league games over four seasons with three teams. The last time he was in the big leagues was 2009 with the Pirates. Last year, [...]
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According to Marc Topkin, Evan Longoria will report to camp “10-15 pounds leaner and considerably looser, emphasizing flexibility over strength.” The goal is to avoid injuries that have limited Longoria’s playing time in previous years. Over course, every year dozens of players show up to camp in the best shape [...]
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Off-Season (click image for random Wikipedia page) We are back from our little mini-vacation and find that John Sickels of Minor League Ball ranks the Rays farm system as just the seventh-best in baseball… Impact depth behind Matt Moore has slipped but this is still a robust organization. Although, we would [...]
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Off-Season (click image for random Wikipedia page) The Rays 2011 All-Stars, David Price, James Shields, and Matt Joyce, have been named the grand marshalls for the 2012 Gasparilla parade on January 28. Speaking of Shields…Does anybody in baseball have a more intimidating ass? If we were on first base when [...]
