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, …
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We here at X-Rays Spex wanted to wish every one of you a very happy Valentines Day! See, we’re not the heartless Yankee and Red Sox hating bastards that some would make us out to be. Update: According to MLB Trade Rumors, the Colorado Rockies have acquired the recently DFA’d Reid Brignac. The Rockies will send …
Update: According to sources, IF/OF Elliot Johnson has been acquired from the Rays as the player to be named in the December 9 Tampa Bay/Kansas City trade. There is still no word on the state of INF Reid Brignac. As per Topkin: Rays RHP Dane De La Rosa clears waivers, out-righted to Triple-A Durham. Will …
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I wrote about Russ Canzler a bit back, so I don’t think that he really elicits further discussion… well, beyond the fact that he’s been DFA’d by the Yankees, and does seem to fit the Rays needs for a right-handed outfielder/first basemen with pop in his bat. That, and I think Andrew Friedman would be …
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Reid Brignac…Walk-Off Homer…Bottom of the 11th! This is from a fellow Rays fan, St. Petersburg local on Facebook, “AND A FEW THOUSAND YANKEE FANS WALK IN A DEJECTED MANNER BACK TO THEIR VEHICLES … AND DRIVE BACK TO THEIR HOMES …. OVER THE HOWARD FRANKLIN …”
