Hot-Stove: Excuse making and Mike Morse

All apologies for being incommunicado on my part. I do, however, have a plausible excuse: Bright House Networks internet service, or lack thereof. Suffice to say, typing this piece on my iPhone is cumbersome at best. We’ve also been busy tinkering with the design of the new site. I think you all will be pleasantly …

Hot-Stove: …Where for art thou, Russ Canzler?

Right handed 1B/OF Russ Canzler is now a Yankee. Dammit! The Rays had a pair of chances to pick him up in the last few weeks, yet they dropped the proverbial ball, ahem…twice over. Canzler, arguably, would have fit the Rays needs. He is the Rays type of guy; a utility player that could have …

Hot-Stove: David Price, among other things

Doom and gloom peppered the sports talk radio and the six o-clock news formats, following the announcement that the Rays and David Price were able to avoid arbitration. Just in case you just emerged from your December 21, 2012 doomsday bunker and missed the news, Price signed a one-year $10.1125MM contract earlier this week. Now …

Hot-Stove: David Price among other things

Doom and gloom peppered the sports talk radio and the six o-clock news formats, following the announcement that the Rays and David Price were able to avoid arbitration. Just in case you just emerged from your December 21, 2012 doomsday bunker and missed the news, Price signed a one-year $10.1125MM contract earlier this week. Now …

Hot-Stove: David Price and the Rays avoid arbitration (Updated)

MLB Trade Rumors has reported that 27 year-old LHP David Price has reached a one-year deal with the Rays, avoiding arbitration. It was projected that Price would make just north of $9.5MM in 2013, more than doubling last years salary of $4.3MM. The terms of the deal have been released, and the Rays ace will receive just …