DRaysBay Oct 16, 2018
Rays 2018 Season Review: Offense
The 2018 Tampa Bay Rays offense was much different than their 2017 iteration of their roster. There were players lost to free agency and players traded away. The Rays also acquired CJ Cron and Joey Wendle in trades and were expecting to transition to youngsters Willy Adames and Jake Bauers at some point in the season. The offense was surprisingly good. They were always going to be a solid defensive team, but the youth and inexperience at the plate was a big unknown. Despite hitting 78 fewer homers in 2018, the Rays scored 23 more runs. Non-pitchers hit .259/.334/.407 and put up 106 wRC+...
DRaysBay Oct 1, 2018
DRaysBay Presents the 2018 Raysie Awards
It’s time to hand out some 2018 Tampa Bay Rays awards Ninety wins; 90 wins if you prefer that aesthetic. Either way you write it, it’s gorgeous. In a season when the pundits were circling like sharks before the season, the Rays went out and posted their best win total since 2013. It wouldn’t take much to convince most Rays fans that this season was the most invigorating since 2008, as The Future arrived in the form of a (likely) Blake Snell Cy Young; Willy Adames and Jake Bauers walk off homers; and the Rays reclaiming their spot atop Baseball Experiment Mountain. As such, we need to...
