[picappgallerysingle id="8469147"]Over the past few days, the Jayson Werth rumors have heated up. ESPN’s Buster Olney and Jayson Stark as well as SI’s Jon Heyman have weighed in saying that discussion is taking place. The added wrinkle is that Heyman threw in is that it could potentially be a three-way with the Phillies flipping [...]
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Just Blogging Aroung – Astros, Phillies and…Red Sox?
Posted: 22nd July 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Just Blogging AroundTags: Jayson Werth, Reid Brignac, Wade Davis
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Would You Trade Evan Longoria for Adrian Beltre?
Posted: 11th June 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Just Blogging AroundTags: Adrian Beltre, Alex Rodriguez, evan longoria
[picappgallerysingle id="8494794"]Of course, I ask that question in jest with a lot of sarcasm tossed in. I was browsing around the internet tonight and stumbled across this article on a blog by Nick Underhill on masslive.com. The headline? Is Adrian Beltre the best third baseman in the majors? Then, his argument became this: “If [...]
Rays Farm Report for Friday, May 21
Posted: 22nd May 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Just Blogging Around, Rays Farm ReportTags: Jake McGee, Leslie Anderson, Tim Beckham
Triple-A Durham Bulls (23-19, 1st place ) – game against Toledo postponed due to rain. Double-A Montgomery Biscuits (22-20, 2nd place ) - Swept by West Tennessee 5-3 and 3-2 In game 1, Starter Jake McGee saw his record fall to 0-4, as he allowed five runs (only two earned) on four hits in four innings. Chris Nowak was [...]
“Big League Stew” Tries to Cook Up Controversy?
Posted: 11th May 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Just Blogging AroundTags: dallas braden*, evan longoria, joe maddon*
[picappgallerysingle id="8523324"] Seriously? For all the things baseball blog “Big League Stew” could have written about in regards to Dallas Braden’s perfect game, he chose to write about Evan Longoria’s failed bunt attemt in the top of the fifth inning? I mean, there’s the Braden vs A-Rod angle. There’s the fact that the Rays [...]
Michael and I have just launched the Rise of the Rays forum. We hope it will be a new community for Rays fans to speak their minds about their favorite team. We would like to have discussions about our team and all of the MLB. Please join us by clicking the link above or the [...]
Predicting the Trades
Posted: 29th April 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Just Blogging AroundTags: Andy Sonnanstine, Carl Crawford, Hank Blalock
Our friends at raysindex.com posted their second annual Tampa Bay Rays Trade Pool and Devon and I both gave our lists of the five Rays that we would expect to see traded through the course of the season if a trade is made. My list, with the most likely to be traded first, was: Andy Sonnanstine [...]
Just Blogging Around – Season Previews
Posted: 28th March 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Just Blogging AroundTags: Hank Blalock, Pat Burrell, Wade Davis
Here’s a Rays season preview from a Toronto Blue Jays blog. The Bluebird Banter provides an example of why bloggers often let other team’s bloggers do the preview for them. Obviously, I’m doing a blog. But, I’m not sure how many people would speculate that Pat Burrell is penciled in as the starting right fielder going [...]
Gammons: Split Up Yankees and Red Sox
Posted: 6th March 2010 by Devon Rogers in Just Blogging AroundPeter Gammons of MLB.com mentions splitting the Yankees and Red Sox up. His situation puts the Yankees and Mets in one division and the Red Sox and Rays in another. This situation would be great because, IMO, the Rays are better than the Red Sox. I would like to see this because I am tired [...]
Just Blogging Around – Fantasy Time
Posted: 6th February 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in Fantasy Baseball, Just Blogging AroundTags: BJ Upton, Carl Crawford, Desmond Jennings
“Grey” at razzball.com critiques the ESPN mock fantasy baseball draft results in a post from yesterday. In his words, “here’s some head scratchers from ESPN’s 2010 fantasy baseball mock draft:” Carl Crawford – 7th overall. Ha! Seriously, I don’t even know what to say about this. Michael Bourn is that different at around pick 100? [...]
Just Blogging Around: Rays Preview-From a Yankees Site
Posted: 2nd February 2010 by Devon Rogers in Just Blogging AroundTags: Ben Zobrist, BJ Upton, Sean Rodriguez
The LoHud.com Yankees Blog gave a 2010 Rays preview. They, of course, predict the Rays to finish third in the AL East. This post says the Yankees are better than the Rays in rotation. I think that the Rays rotation has the potential to be a great rotation if they are all on. The Yankees rotation [...]