Bats

This week’s SmackDown has everything you could dream of: returns, revelations, and Otis playing with his hard salami.

The Rays moving into first place, getting unexpected pitching performances, and two hitless players make the list in this week’s Three Up, Three Down.

After a week at Tropicana Field, the Rays return to the road, and this time they remembered their bats. Let’s look at the good and slightly less good of Week 4 of the Major League season.

Last week the Rays came home and got their record back to .500. Let’s see what else went right for them, as well as what didn’t.

The Rays came back to Earth this week as the team couldn’t get anything going on the road. Let’s see the good and the bad during 5-straight losses to Atlanta and Baltimore.

Finally, the season has begun! The Tampa Bay Rays faced the Toronto Blue Jays in a three-game series for the first official week of baseball this season. Let’s look at what went right for the Rays and what went horribly wrong.

Major League Baseball has returned! In honor of Opening Day for the Rays, let’s look at their three best and three worst Opening Day performances.

I braved (no pun intended) unseasonably cold Florida weather, without a jacket, to bring you this Spring Training report. Enjoy!

During the regular season, I will be highlighting three positives and three negatives from the previous week of Tampa Bay Rays baseball. I’m kicking the column off, though, with the three biggest off-season acquisitions and losses.

Rocco Baldelli just brought his Minnesota Twins team into Tropicana Field and took three out of four games against his former team. The first-year skipper has led the Twinkies to one of the best records in Major League Baseball, but he’s not the only former Rays player making noise as a manager this season.

For the second time in team history, the Tampa Bay Rays will finish the month of April with the best record in Major League Baseball.

Here’s a handful of pictures (and one GIF) I took while attending the season opener for the Tampa Bay Rays on March 28, 2019.

It’s finally Opening Day for Major League Baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays will be hosting the Houston Astros at Tropicana Field today. Game time is 4:00 pm Eastern time. 2018 Season The Rays finished last year with a fantastic 90 – 72 record, the fifth time in the past nine years that they have eclipsed the 90-win mark. However, it is also the second […]

As the Rays begin Spring Training down in Port Charlotte, let’s take a look at their three biggest stories from the offseason: No new stadium – In December, Rays principal owner Stu Sternberg announced that the project for a planned stadium in Ybor City was officially dead. Sternberg (as well as MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred) felt the proposal was lacking specific details regarding money (the […]

The Tampa Bay Rays recently announced that they would be closing off the 300 level of Tropicana Field for the upcoming season, in order to create a “more intimate” experience for fans, though I’m sure that cost-cutting also played a major factor in the decision. While the upper deck has slowly seen its population dwindle over the past few seasons, some of us are still […]