I wrote yesterday that the Tampa Bay Rays have reached a two-year, $4.5MM deal with 38 year-old catcher, Jośe Molina. A few of the finer details surrounding the deal have surfaced. When the deal is officially announced in the next few days, Molina is projected to make $1.75-million in 2014 (a slight pay cut from 2013, when …
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Wil Myers has been named the 2013 AL Rookie of the Year, beating out fellow teammate Chris Archer and the Detroit Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias. Myers, the Rays’ third AL Rookie of the Year in the past six seasons, received 23 of 30 first place votes, while Iglesias came in second with five votes and Archer scratched the surface with one vote. The Marlins’ Jose Fernandez won the award on the NL side, to which we retort, “Ha ha, Puig!”
On the heals of news that the Rays decided to exercise the $6.5MM option on outfielder David DeJesus, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times writes they have agreed to a new two-year contract that will cover the 2014-15 seasons, including a club option for the 2016 season. The terms of the contract are unknown.
As expected, the Rays have exercised their club options over utilityman extraordinaire Ben Zobrist and shortstop Yunel Escobar. Zobrist is projected to make $7MM in 2014, while Yunel Escobar is expected to make $5MM. I’m watching the Descendents documentary at the moment, so I’ll post more later.
25,000 Rays fans (including the crack reporters from X-Rays Spex), 63 Rays players, nine coaches, Astro, 40 former major leaguers, and two MLB Network personalities attended the Rays annual Fan Fest at the Trop, Saturday, February 16th. We had a blast! One of us may have met the Rays VP Matt Silverman, while also sharing a …
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