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Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: Chris Archer Avoids his 20th loss that no one should have cared about in the first place

Archer is victorious, Kevin Kiermaier eyes his second gold glove, and there is someone in the Tampa Bay area who just a horrific human being

By Adam Sanford Sep 30, 2016, 9:00am EDT

This guy still stands alone as the only pitcher in this century to have 20 losses

Rays News:

The Rays managed to pull of a victory against the Chicago White Sox as they avoided a four game sweep. Chris Archer avoided his 20th loss of the season, as the Rays held on for a 5-3 win.
The Rays are now tied with Arizona for the 29th worst record in the league (i.e. the 2nd pick in the 2017 draft)
Kevin Kiermaier is hoping to win his second consecutive gold glove, despite missing two months of the season
The season didn't quite go as Chris Archer had hoped back in spring training, but with a strong second half, he has a positive outlook on his 2016 campaign

Around the League:

The Chicago Cubs signed Theo Epstein to five year extension valued at $50 million
Every game that is played with contending teams is incredibly important right now and the Cardinals are one of those teams...they won their game last night in controversial walk-off fashion
They won that game against the Reds, who also had their star first baseman, Joey Votto, exit the game early after taking a ball off his face and bleeding everywhere
Yasiel Puig gave a bat to a young fan...after having the fan do 50 pushups
Jose Fernandez's high school held a vigil for him and brought out his old high school jersey to pay tribute to him...someone stole that jersey