John Sickels has released his Top 20 Rays prospects list along with each prospect’s grades. Be sure to check out his write up with a brief explanation for the grading system and each player’s grade… Jeremy Hellickson, RHP Matt Moore, LHP Desmond Jennings, OF Jake McGee, LHP Josh Sale, OF [...]
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The Bucs improved to 4-2 with their dramatic win yesterday over the Rams. And yes, it was just the Rams, but at least the Bucs are beating the teams they are supposed to beat. Sure beats the hell out of all of those young players being subjected to loss after [...]
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Just a few links today. Let’s get to it. DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA… We already saw Baseball America’s list of the top 30 Rays prospects. Now we have their Top 100 overall and it includes 7 Rays prospects. [Baseball America] One writer thinks Joe Maddon’s recent comments on Willy Aybar shed [...]
In the science community, a meta-analysis is what we do when we don’t want to do any work ourselves and instead want to take the work of a bunch of other people, tease the data a little, draw some conclusions that nobody had noticed before, and then pawn it off [...]
Earlier this week Keith Law ranked the Rays as the third best organization in baseball. Now Law has released his list of the Top 100 prospects. Six Rays are in the top 100, including 4 in the top 30. 6. Desmond Jennings 15. Wade Davis 17. Jeremy Hellickson 29. Tim [...]
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The latest name to be tied to the Rays is Johnny Damon. And with the Yankees signing former Devil Ray Randy Winn, Damon is looking for a new home. Joel Sherman reports that the Rays have shown interest in Damon for some time… The Tampa Bay Rays have been in [...]
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Here is the Rays new road Spring Training/Batting Practice cap. You can see the new home ST/BP cap here. We’re not allowed to talk about it yet, but let’s just say, we hope you like the color. DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA… The deadline for the Rays to avoid arbitration is noon [...]
John Manuel of Baseball America has released his list of the Top 20 prospects in baseball and the Rays are well represented… 4. Desmond Jennings, OF, Rays Why he’s here: Once he stayed healthy for a full season, Jennings showed true five-tool talent. He has size, speed, strength, explosiveness and [...]
Baseball America has released their annual list of the Rays Top 10 prospects. The number in parentheses is that player’s 2009 ranking… 1. Desmond Jennings, of (5) 2. Jeremy Hellickson, rhp (8) 3. Wade Davis, rhp (3) 4. Matt Moore, lhp (6) 5. Reid Brignac, ss (4) 6. Tim Beckham, [...]
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Just a few links on Steve Garvey’s and Steve Carlton’s birthday… DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA… Little surprise here…Mitch Talbot was sent to the Indians to complete the Shoppach deal. Several writers have suggested the Indians ended up with the better player in this deal. But keep in mind that Talbot is [...]
