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Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: Fleming Inbound

Josh Fleming gets the call, and how do you stop a beanball war?

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The Rays lost last night, as happens sometimes during a long season. This time it was to the Rangers, by a score of 8-3. Ryan Yarbrough got a little roughed up, though the hits he allowed were not particularly hard hit for the most part. It was one of those nights. The loss dropped the Rays back under .500, putting them in a four way tie for second place in the AL East


Josh Fleming is coming.

Steve Carney on Tyler Glasnow’s most recent act of domination.

From Joey Knight at the Times: Kevin Cash says Glasnow’s chance to complete a game for Rays will come.

John Romano at the Times has opinions on the headhunting Yankees and what the Rays should do about it.

Brent Honeywell joined Steve Carney Under the Orange Roof.

This story from over the weekend about fathers and sons and baseballs is everything that is right with this world.

Our own Adam Sanford appeared on the Box Seat Banter podcast.

These two infield singles happened within a couple days of each other.

While some guys are really fast, other guys are really slow!

Old friend alert? At least I think that’s him...

Who is another old friend who didn’t look like himself last night? Blake Snell, who didn’t make it out of the first inning.

This is nifty.

This is impressive.

Baseball BBQ with a piece on Ronald Acuña.

Randy Arozarena makes an appearance in Sam Dykstra’s rookies to watch.

Akil Baddoo of the Tigers also appeared on that list. And he homered again last night. You could even say that he ... Badidit again!

Baseball’s antitrust exemption is in the news again. But what exactly is it? Gabe Lacques breaks it down for us.

Umpire Joe West won his defamation suit against former major leaguer Paul Lo Duca.

Lastly, a good doggo rescuing a puppy.