The Rays signed three players to minor league contracts on Thursday: 28 year-old utility infielder Will Rhymes, 32 year-old outfielder Jesus Feliciano, and 27 year old RHP Romulo Sanchez. In addition, they also re-signed RHP Matt Torra, who spent the second half of the 2011 season in AAA Durham, to a minor league contract. All …
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Hot-Stove: Rays Avoid Arbitration with Badenhop, Howell, Price and Upton, and Stadium Stuff
The Rays avoided arbitration, and agreed to one year contracts, with pitchers Burke Badenhop, JP Howell, David Price, and centerfielder BJ Upton. Badenhop, who went 2-3 with a 4.10 ERA in 63.2-IP with 29-ER in 50 relief appearances with the Marlins, will earn $1.075 MM in the upcoming season. Howell went 2-3 with a 6.16 …
Hot-Stove: Great Scott, Did You Hear What Damon Said? AKA A Poorly Used Pun For the Title of A Piece on the Two
With yesterday’s news of the Luke Scott acquisition by Friedman and Co., it’s time to formally bid Johnny Damon adieu. Admittedly, I’m still in a bit of shock over this whole thing. When it became apparent that we were staring at a “you can only choose A or B” type of situation, with regards to …
Hot-Stove: The Ballad of Damon, Pena, Kotchman, Scott, and Trumbo.
Super agent extraordinaire, Scott Boras, noted Tuesday that both Johnny Damon and Carlos Pena remain as first-base and DH hole filling possibilities for the Rays. However, you can scratch both Damon and DH off of the list of needs with the news of the signing of Luke Scott, who’ll fill the DH role. But lingering …
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Hot-Stove: Topkin on the Return of Both Kotchman and Damon
Adding a credible voice to what we at Raysbaseball.co believe about the prospects of both 2011 DH Johnny Damon, and first baseman Casey Kotchman returning for the 2012 season, Rays beat writer, Marc Topkin, had this to say in a Heater (the Times Rays blog) piece today, Friedman maintained his off-season long position that both …
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