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Welcome to your Tuesday Tank!
Where the Rays acquire catchers and a finesse pitcher dominates
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December 1st in Rays History!
On this date in 2009, the Rays acquired Kelly Shoppach from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named (Mitch Talbot). Shoppach spent the next seasons splitting time behind the dish with Dioner Navarro and John Jaso, while slashing .185/.285/.340 with 16 home runs over 150 games.
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Trivia Time!
The answer to yesterday's question, was Doug Waechter who threw the organization's first complete game no-hitter on August 10th, 2000 for the Hudson Valley Renegades
Onto today's trivia:
Can you name this Rays player based off an excerpt of his prospect report from Baseball America?
"(Player) throws bullets, with a fastball clocked as high as 99 mph. The pitch consistently sat in the 93-95 mph range, and managers rated it as the SAL’s best heater. He has the makings of a plus curveball. (Player) has a power pitcher’s body, with thick thighs and excellent size"
Hint: Was named the team's 6th top prospect following the 2001 season
Answer will be revealed during tomorrow's tank!
If you have any suggestions for Trivia, feel free to contact me.
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There are 124 days until Opening Day!
That's the same number of strikeouts recorded by Andy Sonnanstine during the 2008 season.
Here's his dominating start against the White Sox!
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LINKS!
- The Marlins keep making the headlines as they are now seriously considering making Barry Bonds their hitting coach
- Johnny Cueto turned down a 5 year-$120 million offer from the Diamondbacks
- According to Topkin's sources, the Rays are determined to trade Boxberger
- Today is the deadline to offer arbitration to eligible players with the Rays having a few candidates up for non-tendering.
- If you haven't already, please sign our petition to help bring back the team's original jerseys for a game in 2016
- Need a baseball fix? Check out this game from 2007