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Rays Links
- Eno Sarris wrote about the Rays, saying that they look at a team that’s ready to compete in the near future. He also noticed that they appear to spend a higher percentage of their revenue on payroll than do the Yankees.
- Joey Wendle was a breakout star of the year, and Marc Topkin talked to his former Oakland teammates about whether they saw that breakout coming.
- Jeff Sullivan wrote about how good Blake Snell is.
- From Topkin’s notes, Dick Bosman is retiring, after a long run as a pitching coach throughout the Rays system.
- Kevin Kiermaier is out for the remainder of the season with a fractured foot, after being hit by a pitch. Matt Duffy is day-to-day with a quad injury.
- The Mesa brothers will work out for major league teams on October 5th. The Rays have one of the biggest available bonus pools, but not the biggest.
- Snell’s jersey is in Cooperstown.
- Tommy Pham hits the ball hard to center field.
Hitting .444 over his last 10 games...
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) September 27, 2018
Tommy is locked in. pic.twitter.com/6S6Q93LalD
Other Links
- Matthew Trueblood has previously written about the slider revolution. Now he notes that there’s one team really not following it: The Cubs, of Joe Maddon and Jim Hickey. Is it coincidence that the pair we thought was anti-slider back in 2009, still seems ant-slider now?
- Jason Hanelman examined the best batters of this season.
- Sheryl Ring wrote about tanking.
- Mike Bates wrote about Fred Merkle, and how we remember players.
- When base stealers get on base via the HBP, they are more likely to steal than if they got on base another way.
- In contrast to Blake Snell, who won a lot of games, the best pitcher in the National League did not win a lot of games.
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