Links

• Manny Ramirez has apparently signed with a professional baseball team somewhere on the planet
• I’ll be so glad when Hall of Fame ballots are no longer stories, but until then, Murray Chass purposely turned in a blank ballot
• The kid who wrote the adorable letter to the Astros GM, pleading with him to not trade George Springer, got to meet Springer and take a tour of the Astros stadium
• Aaron Hill is drawing interest from a couple of clubs
• The Seattle Mariners made a couple of moves, first acquiring Yovani Gallardo from the Orioles for Seth Smith
• Then, Seattle sent former Rays pitcher, Nate Karns, to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Jarrod Dyson
• Back in November, Brandon Phillips blocked another trade, the third time this has happened now
• It snowed this past week, so naturally the Rockies and Reds engaged in an epic snowball fight on twitter using .gifs
• The Process Report reveiwed Corey Dickerson’s 2016 campaign
• The first ‘This Week in Rays Baseball’ podcast of 2017 is out as Neil Solondz chats with fellow Rays radioman, Andy Freed, and also the Rays GM, Eric Neander

History

2004 - The Rays signed Robert Fick, he’d play in a total of 76 games for the Rays that season before being released in August after slashing .201/.273/.327 with 6 HR