Tampa Bay Rays News Sources

DRaysBay — Photo by Elsa/ One of the earliest rumors of the offseason is the Tampa Bay Rays are interested in signing Howie Kendrick. The interest has led Bobby Nightengale of the Cincinnati Enquirer to say, “a league source said it’s unlikely he signs with the Reds and the Tampa Bay Rays are the frontrunners to add him.” Kendrick was one of the heros in the playoffs for the Washington Nationals. In the tenth inning of Game 5 of the NLDS Kendrick hit a grand slam to plate the series winning runs against the Los Angeles Dodgers. At one time Kendrick was the everyday second baseman for the Los...

DRaysBay — Kwang-hyun Kim | Photo by Masterpress/ Including one former Rays farmhand! Around this time last year, I wrote about Merill Kelly as a potential player of interest for the Rays. The team that got Kelly was his hometown team, Arizona, who got small achievements through their investment (183.0 IP, 4.42 ERA, 4.51 FIP, 2.0 fWAR). It’s not a noticeable performance, but it’s a good one considering his cheap contract (2 years/$5.5M (2019-20), plus 2021-22 options). This offseason, there seems to be more MLB articles about players who played in Korea. MLB teams and their fans seem to...

DRaysBay — Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via The Houston Astros have been caught cheating...again In the analogs of Rays history, one might remember a commercial being aired on Fox Sports Florida where the Rays had fans positioned somewhere in the stands or possible even in the catwalks. The fans would watch the catcher with binoculars and look closely for the signs, then they’d relay the signs back to the Rays hitter who was standing at the plate. Then the hitter, who I believe to be at the time was Carl Crawford, would take advantage and launch a ball into the seats. The play-by-play...