Rise of the Rays

David Price gave the Rays a good start yesterday, but the offense was unable to do anything with it. Price went 8 innings, allowing 3 earned on 5 hits. He struck out 8. The Rays would’ve had a great shot to win this game if the offense could figure out how to hit Colby Lewis. [...]

The Rays jumped out to an early 5 run lead in the bottom of the first yesterday, but that was not enough for the pitching staff. Alex Cobb allowed 4 earned runs in his first career start. He lasted 4.1 innings pitched and lost his command at the end of the start. Andy Sonnanstine allowed [...]

After a rough start, Johnny Damon is finally starting to find his groove at the plate. Tonight he had his biggest hit of the season, a walk off two run homer in the tenth. It was his only hit of the game in 5 at bats, but it was a huge one to get. Sam [...]

With Jason Bartlett headed out west, Reid Brignac takes over as everyday shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays.  And, minutes after the trade was announced, he had this to say via Twitter: View reidbrignac’s tweet

This article will pay tribute to Carl Crawford’s great Rays career. Carl Crawford quickly became Tampa Bay’s favorite player when he came to the big leagues and it stayed that way until the arrival of Evan Longoria. CC was the bright spot on many terrible Devil Rays teams. He is a 5 tool player who [...]

I know this is a little late to be posting it, but awards season for the  MLB is just cranking up, so I figured now would be the perfect time to post this. I will be going through my Rays awards after the great 2010 season to see who helped us get to the playoffs. [...]

This is the big award for the BBA, the MVP. I will be filling out my ballot for the American League version of the award below: Josh Hamilton, TEX Robinson Cano, NYY Miguel Cabrera, DET Jose Bautista, TOR Adrian Beltre, BOS Joe Mauer, MIN Carl Crawford, TB CC Sabathia, NYY Felix Hernandez, SEA Rafael Soriano, [...]

The 2010 playoffs have been interesting to say the least so far. The Rays are already out, who owned the best record in the AL, the Minnesota Twins are also at home, who made their run without one of their best players, Justin Morneau. They just ran in to the Yankees machine. The Bobby Cox [...]

  [picappgallerysingle id="9048415"]The Rays will lose Carl Crawford to free agency during the off-season.  They will not be able to compete with the wealthy teams for his services for the 2011 season.  And, it is also known that the Rays will cut payroll.  Having said that, I’m wondering if they couldn’t find a place for [...]

It’s that time of year again, time for the end of season awards. The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is a group of baseball bloggers thta Rise of the Rays is involved with. Over the next couple of days you will see our ballots for the BBA awards. The Connie Mack award is the manager of the [...]