![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss A Near No-No, Unbalanced Scheduling And Using The Shift](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/11-150x150.png)
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: Blackout. At least many of us didn’t have to watch that crap. Thanks FOX! THE BAD: Schedule. Thanks to 2 off-days in the first [...]
There has been some discussion recently about the Rays batting lineup so we decided to look at the issue a little closer. We used the projected stats for the Rays hitters using the CHONE projection system found at BaseballProjection.com. We then submitted the Rays projected totals to the lineup analysis [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Shop’s Big Blast, A Rays Futures Game And Kazmir’s Bum Shoulder](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hangover4-150x150.jpg)
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: Kelly Shoppach. Shoppach hit a grand slam off of Jeremy Hellickson. THE BAD: Future Stars. We like the idea of the Rays playing exhibition [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Pitchers In Mid-Season Form, Price’s Personal Catcher And The Opening Day Roster](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hangover44-150x150.jpg)
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: Starting Pitching. Want a sign that the starting pitchers are already in mid-season form? The 5 members of the rotation have combined for 78 [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Pena’s Contact, Blalock’s Debut And The Battle For The 5th Spot](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4433345957_e8f58ca524_o.png)
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: Jeff Niemann. The Giraffe allowed just 1 run in 3.2 innings. The big numbers were 6 strikeouts and 0 walks…Sean Rodriguez. Making the start [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Another Walk-Off Win, Hank’s New Deal And The Rays #1 Picks](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hangover13-150x150.jpg)
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: Clutch Hitting. Fernando Perez drove in the winning run with a single in the 10th. It was the Rays 3rd walk-off win and 4th [...]
The Sports Banter attempted to rank the off-season improvements of every MLB team. Despite the Rays filling their one hole (closer) with a proven commodity (Rafael Soriano) and only having to pay for the player with a four-A pitcher, the Rays are near the bottom of the rankings… (25) Rays: [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss The Fat Catcher, Soriano’s Short Workout And More On The Looming Battle Between Tampa And St. Pete](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hangover21-150x150.jpg)
At right is new Rays catcher Kelly Shoppach. A lot of Rays fans are rooting hard for Shoppach. Even we, who have long been Dioner Navarro apologists are hoping Shoppach steps up to be the most-days catcher. Putting on what appears to be 30 extra pounds this off-season didn’t help. [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Plans For Everything, An Arbitration Deadline And Becks New Pecs](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hangover10-150x150.jpg)
Via Roger Mooney, Joe Maddon speaks about the Rays catching situation: “It is an open competition in a sense, but for me I think we have two really good catchers and I don’t know exactly how it’s going to work yet, I truly don’t…I just think we’re in a good [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Shoppach’s New Deal, Arb Deadlines And Maddon On The Hotseat](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hangover4-150x150.jpg)
The picture at right is of BJ Upton from a recent golf tournament and comes to us via his Twitter account. DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA… Marc Topkin has the details on Kelly Shoppach’s new deal. He will make $2.25 million in 2010. We had him projected at $2.2 million in our [...]
