I hope this deal is cheap. I’m just not sure how much Hank Blalock adds to the Rays. Sure, he’s nice insurance if Pena or Longoria goes down. But, is he appreciably different than Dan Johnson? *** Matt Lutovsky wrote a piece in The Sporting News with this as the first sentence. We’ve introduced you [...]
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The Sunday Papers — Blalock Close?
Posted: 7th March 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: BJ Upton, Hank Blalock, Sean Rodriguez
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The Sunday Papers – Does Cinderella Have a UZR?
Posted: 28th February 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: Ben Zobrist, carlos peña, Pat Burrell, UZR
[picappgallerysingle id="5540738"] Nick Cafardo has a long preview of the 2010 Rays in the Boston Globe. If he spent much time in the Rays camp, he didn’t come up with too much new stuff. Of course, it mentions the pending free agency of Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena. He mentions that the Rays have [...]
The Sunday Papers – The Star That Will Be Desmond Jennings
Posted: 7th February 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: AL East, Andy Freed, Desmond Jennings
Desmond Jennings has a profile on raysbaseball.com. He sure is drawing a lot of interest as the 2010 season draws near. And, for good reason. Carl Crawford will be a headline-maker for many reasons throughout the upcoming season for many reasons. Ultimately, Desmond Jennings enters into most of those conversations. He enters the season as [...]
The Sunday Papers – Financial Gloom, Zim and Andrew Bellati
Posted: 24th January 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: Andrew Bellati, Carl Crawford, carlos peña
To open, here’s this from the Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo: “The feeling is that if the Rays’ financial picture gets any gloomier, (Carl) Crawford will be trade bait by the trading deadline or even earlier. In fact, both he and Carlos Pena could have new addresses at some point in the season.” This isn’t [...]
The Sunday Papers – Gross Misrepresentation of Talent
Posted: 17th January 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: Matt Joyce, Miguel Tejada, rocco baldelli
Words I never thought I’d read. Anywhere. The loss of the Gabe (Gross, that is) has dimished (sic) the Rays’ depth greatly. Well, that’s the opinion of Robert Cox on Fanhuddle.com. At that level of importance, it’s hard to believe that the other Gabe hasn’t been snatched up by any of the other 29 teams in [...]
The Sunday Papers – The One with David Price and Matt Joyce
Posted: 3rd January 2010 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: David Price, Matt Joyce
David Price has another award to add to his mantle. A poll in The Tennessean has named him “Middle Tennessee’s male prep athlete of the decade”. He beat out the likes of Notre Dame WR Golden Tate and Golden State Warriors forward Brandan Wright. Quotable, from Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin: “His greatest attribute as an [...]
The Sunday Papers – The Pre-Christmas Edition
Posted: 20th December 2009 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: carlos peña, Joseph Cruz, Mitch Talbot
Erie Times-News writer Tony Battaglia has an idea of who the Cleveland Indians will be receiving in exchange for Kelly Shoppach from the Rays: There is speculation that the Indians will get Mitch Talbot or Joseph Cruz — both right-handed starters — from the Tampa Bay Rays as the player to be named later in [...]
The Sunday Papers – Soriano Trade Analysis
Posted: 13th December 2009 by Michael Emdeyar in The Sunday PapersTags: Rafael Soriano
Bill Madden of the New York Daily News echoes what many others have been saying about the Rays’ willingness to spend $7 million on Rafael Soriano. He says that it’s a clear sign that they’re in it to win it in 2010. But, he feels a trade was the only way the Rays were going [...]