![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss The Two Most Economically Distressed Cities In The Country And The Return Of Manny](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/357090517231_Indians_at_Rays-232x300.jpg)
Of the 20 “most distressed” metropolitan areas in the country, five areas in the state of Florida are among the top eight, including Tampa-St. Pete (#2) and the Orlando area (#1). In both Tampa-St. Pete and Orlando, unemployment is rated as “emergency crisis,” the worst possible rating. Housing in both [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Mayor Foster’s ‘Tough Sh*t’ Letter, And No Deals For Hellickson And Jennings](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10-29-2012-9-55-28-AM-150x150.jpg)
Guess what?! St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster will not let the Rays look for a new stadium in Hillsborough County. Shocking, right? And what is Foster’s reasoning? Stuart Sternberg knew the Rays situation was a mess when he bought the team and well, tough s*t. Here is a snippet of [...]
Last season, after just five games with the Rays, Manny Ramirez chose to retire rather than serve a 100-game suspension for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. Now comes word from Ken Rosenthal that Manny may have only been required to serve 50 games. …the players’ union, for reasons that [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Moore’s Cover, Zim’s Bear, And Mo’s D](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1-2-150x150.jpg)
Matt Moore is on the cover of this month’s Baseball America (right). If you missed it yesterday, Moore was the unanimous choice as top prospect in our annual Top Prospects Meta-analysis. THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… Marc Topkin has some reactions to the Zim Bear. [The Heater] Jose Molina is already [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Manny’s New Deal, Season-Ticket Sales, And Happy Baseball Season](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/357110221007_Rays_Spring_Training.jpg)
Off-Season (click image for random Wikipedia page) Manny Ramirez has signed a minor league deal with the Oakland A’s. On the surface it is worth $500,000. But after serving his suspension, his prorated salary will be just $306,000 (per Peter Gammons). You know who makes more than that on the [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Extending Price, CC’s Start, And Manny’s New Home](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/95210052325_Rays_at_Astros-150x150.jpg)
David Price on Joe Maddon’s extension (via Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times): “Joe is a players’ manager and I love playing for him…I’m happy he got an extension. My turn.” We used to think the Rays missed the boat on this one. But after seeing what David Price [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Two More Additions, Damon’s Patience, And Poor Kid K](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/19-150x150.jpg)
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, [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Dealing Upton, Lobaton’s Shoulder, And CC’s Ex-Friend](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/icon_14667268-150x150.jpg){kind=icon}
Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe says the Nationals have “cooled on BJ Upton,” noting that they have other options. There has been speculation in the past that the Nationals will just wait until the off-season when Upton is a free agent. At this point, Upton could still be dealt [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss Farm Life, Johnny’s Desires, And Maddon’s Grand Gesture](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/357090318104_Reds_v_Rays.jpg)
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 [...]
The Rays are not a team that will spend money on a proven bat
