Rays Get Big 12-0 Win, Sean Rodriguez Gets His Hits

The Rays rolled to a 12-0 win over the Chicago White Sox last night at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. The Rays are one game different than the Yankees i the loss column, and sit in second place by .5 games. They are 12-4 to start the season, and look every bit as good early [...]

Rays Win In 12 Innings, Overcome Bases Loaded, No Outs In 11th

The Tampa Bay Rays won their ballgame last night with a 2-run shot by Pat Burrell in the 12th inning. Burrell has largely been a disappointment to the Rays since signing after the Phillies World Championship season in 2008. If he can come up with some big hits like this, that opinion may change. Manager [...]

Niemann Will Start Tonight Despite Injury

Jeff Niemann took a liner off of his throwing shoulder in his late start off the bat of Miguel Tejada. Niemann didn’t make it out of the second inning in his first start due to the incident. The Rays manager Joe Maddon didn’t want to take the chance in the first start of the season [...]

Vasquez Not Sharp in Return to Yanks

Javier Vasquez had his first chance in the Yankees rotation last night. As the fourth starter some of the pressure is taken off, but unfortunately in his first start Vasquez was not sharp at all. Vasquez’ Stats: 5.2 IP, 8 Hits, 8 ER, 3 W, 5 SO, and 2 HR His stuff looked great through [...]

What to Watch For – AL East Early Division Showdowns

It’s still the first week of the season, and you know what that means; Division Showdowns. The Yankees will square off tonight at 7:10 PM Eastern against the Tampa Bay Rays. It will be the return of Javier Vasquez to pinstripes against David Price in a battle of fourth starters. In all honesty, these two [...]

Rays Off to a 2-0 Start

The Tampa Bay Rays are off to a 2-0 start to their season. They finished the Grapefruit League East with the best record of 20-8 in spring training. Obviously that record is meaningless (although the Yankees had the best AL Grapefruit record last spring and went on to win the World Series), but to start [...]

2010 Offseason Review: AL East

AL East Baltimore Orioles Key losses- Chris Ray, Danys Baez Key additions- Kevin Millwood, Garrett Atkins, Mike Gonzalez Off-season grade- C+ Justification- Kevin Millwood provides some leadership for the Orioles young staff. He’s also very durable and that should keep the young staff from pitching too many innings. Garrett Atkins is a nice low risk/high [...]

Players on the Market in 2010

The 2009-10 off-season has been a rather dry market. There have been very few heads popping headlines, other than the expected Roy Halladay trade, the re-signing of Matt Holliday and John Lackey joining Red Sox Nation. So will the 2010-11 off-season give us more stories? There are a few more bigger names becoming free agents, [...]

Tampa Bay Rays Top Ten Prospects for 2010

1) Wade Davis-SP Outstanding stuff. Power stuff. Strike out stuff. Here’s a guy that could definitely be the ace of a real good rotation- it’s all about command and harnessing what he has at this point. He should be in the rotation full time come June 2010. The reason I say that is- Tampa might [...]

Looked Over? Offense Outweighing Defensive Performance

Outside of some questionable Gold Gloves winners I have no major problems with the winners of the post-season awards. There was a slight problem I had with the voting however. I noticed that both Chase Utley and Ben Zobrist finished 8th in the voting for their respective leagues. These two were arguably the 2nd best [...]

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