This Week in Rays Baseball: 3/2/13-3/10/13

It’s time for the second edition of This Week in Rays Baseball. We’ll do our best to recap all of the happenings with your Tampa Bay Rays from the past week. The Rays made their first round of cuts Saturday, reassigning four players to minor-league camp: Nevarez, Paduch, Patterson, Schenk. They’re expected to make their …

This Week in Rays Baseball: The “Grapefruit League Action Has Started” Edition

It’s been a fairly eventful week, with the official start of both Spring Training and Grapefruit League play. The Rays ended the first weekend of play with a 2-1 record, following victories over the Twins and Red Sox, and a loss to the Pirates. The Rays will be in Port Charlotte on Monday and Tuesday …

This Week in Rays Baseball: The Fan Fest Edition

Today we bring you a new segment titled, This Week in Rays Baseball. In this reoccurring segment, we’ll (attempt to) sum up the weekly happenings surrounding your Tampa Bay Rays. We’ll typically do as much on Sunday’s, though there’s no time like the present to kick the whole thing off. In the words of Rancid, …

Of Spring Training and Other Random Bits of Ephemera (Part Two)

Thanks for being patient, dear readers. Here’s part two of the piece we started yesterday. The Infield As we noted before (http://tampabayrays.co/?p=5410), the addition of Kelly Johnson tends to stabilize things a bit, giving Joe Maddon more flexibility with his lineup by allowing Ben Zobrist the opportunity to play in right-field regularly. I’d expect Kelly …