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Revisiting the Randy Winn/Lou Piniella Trade
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Revisiting the Kevin Stocker/Bobby Abreu Trade
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Dewon Brazelton for Sean Burroughs Otherwise Known as the Birth of a Front Office
More than three years have passed since the Rays traded Dewon Brazelton for Sean Burroughs. It feels like yesterday when the obscure Andrew Friedman traded the Rays former first round pick for another...
Good Question
My FanGraphs colleague Marc Hulet is doing a series on Baseball Analysts where he looks at teams from 10 years ago (1999), here's what he said about the '99 (Devil) Rays: The Tampa Bay Rays | 69-9...
Drafting and the Rays
MLBers - Simply put, players who are, or have been in the majors. I did not set an innings or plate appearances limit, so Reid Brignac and Carl Crawford are weighed equally. I did not count Jason Ha...
Giving Away Draft Picks for Mediocre Veterans is Silly
The Rays had two picks in the first five rounds of the 2000 draft. This after finishing with 69 wins in 1999. With the sixth overall pick, the Rays grabbed Rocco Baldelli and when their next pick came...
Perspective
A few weeks ago Tommy covered the Rays historic lack of a designated hitter. He called it the "Curse of Greg Vaughn", to which I found appropriate. The Rays "lack" of a superstar effectively ended yes...
The Evan Longoria Story
23.23 at-bats is how long Evan Longoria had been at the major league level. Seven hits, one a homerun, and a few games as the third baseman were all it took, well that and a .920 minor league OPS. Les...







