Marc Topkin on the Marlins Brand Spankin’ New Stadium

Another very worthwhile read from Marc Topkin was published in the Times, today. Could this be, at least architecturally, what the Rays are looking for? You can read that piece here: Marlins Stadium: A Model For the Rays – At Least Architecturally I still stand by my assertion, that a retractable roof facility, like that …

Hot-Stove: Rays Payroll, Kotchman

It’s been mentioned on a few occasions now, that the Rays will be raising their payroll from $42 MM, to somewhere in the range of $50-$55 MM, at least for the next couple of seasons. Interestingly enough, in a tweet from DRaysbay Andrew Friedman has suggested that the Rays “do not work on a hard …

Hot-Stove: Niemann, Brignac, and Davis

We here at Raysbaseball.co speculated a bit back, that there could be the potential of a trade involving John Jaso, Jeff Niemann, and Reid Brignac in order to make room for Matt Moore, and to supplement the roster. On the heals of last weekends Jaso trade, mlbtraderumors.com just reported that Tampa Bay is looking to trade SS Reid …