Tampa Bay Rays news and links: A New Year and the End of the Holiday Doldrums

Happy New Year everyone! Hope the holidays have treated you well. Now that we are officially in 2018, and through the post Christmas pre-New Years doldrums of the MLB offseason, we can finally (hopefully) get that hot stove heated up again.

In the meantime, check out MLB.com’s top Rays moments from 2017.

• The Cut4 crew have their one reason for every team to be excited for 2018, including for the Rays the upcoming debut by a certain Screwball hurling prospect.
• MLBTradeRumors takes an inventory of the Rays.
• Bill Chastain has another Q&A Mailbag, including some questions about the return of Duffy and emerging Blake Snell.
• Shane Tourtellotte at Hardball Times has an entertaining read on a dive down the rabbit hole of rules and justifications in the scoring of Holds and Saves.