View from the catwalk: A draft and two promotions

Rays Links

• Mark Feinsand wrote about the Rays draft, with lots of quotes from Rob Metzler, the Rays amatuer scouting director.
• Rays Radio recaped day three of the draft.
• Bill Chastain wrote about the bad start to yesterday’s game, with quotes from Jonny Venters, Ryan Yarbrough, and Kevin Cash.
• In case you missed it from earlier in the week, Jason Hanselman reviewed the first two months of the Rays season. There’s a lot of very excellent graphs in there. The one that jumped out to me was Ryan Yarbrough, who by his BIP profile has actually been as good as he’s seemed.
• A rundown of the deals and promotions for this upcoming homestand, including a dual bobblehead and a boogie board.
• Juan Toribo at the Athletic gave nine takeaways from the recent road trip.

Today Is the First Day of the Rest of the Rays’ Season

• The Rays have called up prospect Jake Bauer.

Other Links

• Craig Edwards that writes that the increase in strikeouts in the league has a lot to do with changes in pitching, not just in hitting.
• The Diamondbacks acquired John Jay.
• The Athletics signed former-Ray Edwin Jackson to a minor league deal.
• Short Relief: scroll down for the Rajai Davis Update.