Rays News and Links

• Orestes Destrade Surprises The #1 Rays Fan On Her 100th Birthday!! - Jay Recher, WDAE
• 3 New Teams That Should Enter Nolan Arenado Trade Talks After Rockies Lost Leverage With Public Comments - Brendan Balsamo, 12UP
• Tampa Bay Rays dominate MLBs top ten 2B prospects - Seth Carter, Rays Colored Glasses
• 16 players fall off after 1st year on HOF ballot - Manny Randhawa, MLB
• Brent Honeywell throwing once again - David Hill, Call to the Pen
• The New Three-Batter Rule — Will it Impact the Rays - Neil Solondz, Rays Radio
• Beeks relishes time in majors thus far - Paul Boyd, Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
• Foreign Player Evaluations & Projections - Jeff Zimmerman, RotoGraphs
• Exclusive: At home in Washington with Blake Snell as he prepares to bounce back strong in 2020 - Josh Tolentino, The Athletic ($$$)
• Outside the Top 100: Additional AL prospects who could contribute in 2020 - John Sickels, The Athletic ($$$)

Old Friend Alert

• Tampa Bay Rays’ Great – Scott Kazmir will never surrender - Seth Carter, Rays Colored Glasses
• MMO Exclusive: Columbia Fireflies Manager, Reid Brignac - Matthew Brownstein, Metsmerized
• New Giants pitcher Drew Smyly looked like a vintage version of himself by the end of last season - Grant Brisbee, The Athletic ($$$)

Around the League

• HOF 2020: Jeter nearly unanimous; Walker gets in - Anthony Castrovince, MLB
• 1 vote shy: Jeter just misses 100% - Bryan Hoch, MLB
• Braves sign Marcell Ozuna for 1 year, $18 million - Daniel Hutchinson-Kausch and Eric Cole, Talking Chop
• Why Nolan Arenado is right to feel betrayed by the Rockies - Renee Dechert, Purple Row
• Before He Cheats (Houston Astros Remix) - Matthew Roberson, Lookout Landing
• Dustin Pedroia reportedly suffers major setback - Matt Collins, Over the Monster
• Sign-Stealing Around the League - Brian Cohn, Crawfish Boxes

This Date in Rays History

2014 - The San Diego Padres traded Matt Lollis, Maxx Tissenbaum, Matt Andriese, Brad Boxberger and Logan Forsythe to the Tampa Bay Rays for Jesse Hahn and Alex Torres.