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		<title>Five moves the Rays should make.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    In the spirit of trying to keep up with the goings on of the hot stove league I&#8217;ve decided to look at the possibilities and suggest five moves the Rays should make to improve their team. I will try to be as realistic as I can be while trying to view things from both sides. Let&#8217;s roll with it and see how it goes. Sign Joe Beimel: Starting slow and sounding as simple as possible, I know, but the addition of Beimel as Trever Millers replacement would be a huge upgrade to an already good bullpen. Beimel has done very well in the last few years with the Dodgers and, as a type B free agent, there would be no draft picks lost. Beimel could legitimately be used in more situations than just the lefty on lefty matchups if needed, but would be the ideal guy to slot in with Howell, Balfour and Wheeler in shutting teams down from the seventh inning on. There is a lot of competition out there for Beimel but I think it could be done. Re-sign Rocco Baldelli: One of those sentimental moves I think both sides would go for. The only problem that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays season over, sigh.</title>
		<link>http://tampabaysportsblog.com/tampa-bay-rays/rays-season-over-sigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Wheeler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grant Balfour]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   Time to wrap up the Rays season. What a season we had here, never saw this coming. I thought, the same as everyone else, the Rays would improve but not to this extent. Let&#8217;s wrap it up&#8230; The defense: The most dramatically improved thing on this team was the defense. The arrival of Jason Bartlett and Evan Longoria made this into the best left side defense in baseball. I was skeptical of Bartlett in the beginning (no need to bring my stupidity there again) as he had some unexplained throwing errors early but recovered to have a great season (should&#8217;ve got the gold glove over Young in my opinion). Longo was great defensively from day one and that&#8217;s that. Aki transitioned nicely over to second and Pena (won gold glove) was phenomenal. Having Pena at the corner saved Barty and Longo at least 5 errors a piece. Navarro&#8217;s improvement behind the plate was far and away the most amazing difference I saw. He was such a different player all around this year that I want to compare images from last season to see if this is the same guy. Unreal! Crawford and Upton were very good and have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays rumors and options.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   There are a ton of rumors swirling around the Rays as the deadline approaches this Thursday and they&#8217;ve got everyone guessing as to what they&#8217;re gonna do. I know my stomach dropped Friday when I saw the Yankees had obtained Xavier Nady and Demaso Marte from the Pirates. I really wanted Nady and thought the Rays could&#8217;ve gotten him using some sort of package involvingguys like Edwiin Jackson, Jason Hammel, Jeff Niemann or Andy Sonnanstine. The Pirates need pitching and the Rays have some to spare, so what happened? It&#8217;s anybone&#8217;s guess. This is hard for me to swallow for two reasons. It really helps the Yanks, who are coming fast, and it blocked the Rays from the deal. They killed us twice so to speak. This all leaves me wondering what the Rays plan to do. They&#8217;re being linked to guys like Brian Fuentes, Ron Mahay, Clint Barmes (god no), Jason Bay (no way that&#8217;s going to happen), Matt Murton, Mark Texiera and Matt Holliday (just for fun on the last two). I&#8217;m getting more frustrated with this because they don&#8217;t seem to be actively trying to move a Jackson, Hammel or Sonnanstine the way they should be. When David Price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays still need work.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[    After a weekend series in St. Louis there are still some problems that need immediate attention. The baserunning is terrible. There are still way too many mistakes being made on the basepaths that are unforgivable. There is no excuse for the mistakes that are being made. It would be one thing if they were just being over aggressive sometimes or the occasional blunder but these are little league mistakes. These are things guys should know by the time they&#8217;re in high school much less the major leagues. I&#8217;m tired of hearing what a great &#8220;teacher of kids&#8221; when these guys are making little league mistakes. This needs to be fixed. Still too many strikeouts! They are second in the A.L. in strikeouts and it is aggravating. I know I keep beating a dead horse here but it is so frustrating to watch guys take so many good pitches and leave themselves in horrible hitters counts. If someone could possibly teach B.J. Upton to cut down his swing with two strikes or even teach him it&#8217;s ok to swing at a fastball down the middle early in the count it wouldn&#8217;t be near as bad. Carlos Pena needs to flatten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the fans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 01:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   I&#8217;m confused by the lack of attendance at the Rays games. The Rays have yet to start hitting yet they win. You could go watch Shields, Kazmir and Sonnanstine. You don&#8217;t have to see the crap that was continuously rotated out of the bullpen last year. You can see one of the best defense&#8217;s in baseball every night. Every game seems to be close and for the first time in our history they are winning more than they are losing. Where is everyone? I know it&#8217;s too much too ask for people to go every night, hell I can&#8217;t do that, but is it too much to ask for more than 12,000 people to come see our second place Rays? There are no more excuses for you right now. It&#8217;s still easy to find parking. It&#8217;s not a long drive for anyone from Tampa to Sarasota. What&#8217;s your excuse people? Every day I hear on the radio people calling in to the local shows and they say &#8220;when they win I&#8217;ll go&#8221;. They&#8217;re winning now so where are you? It&#8217;s time for the fans to stop making excuses. We can still bitch and moan about the dumb moves our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays pull out game 1 in Toronto.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 02:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Eric Hinske continued to beat up on his old team tonight going 2 for 4 with a homer and a stolen base in the Rays 5-4 victory in Toronto. This breaks the Rays three game losing streak as Andy Sonnanstine has become the team &#8216;stopper&#8217; of late. Sonny has been on a roll and he pulled out his 5th victory of the season. It wasn;t pretty but he did enough to get the job done with a line of 6 IP, 10 H, 4 ER, 1 BB and 2 K&#8217;s. Not pretty but it works. Upton and Aki had decent nights chipping in with 2 hits each. We need to stop and recognize this bullpen though. It&#8217;s gotten to the point this year where we, as fans, are confident that things are going to be fine when the game gets turned over to the bullpen. Remember last year? It&#8217;s a good thing I shave my head because I would&#8217;ve pulled my hair out with Camp, Lugo, Stoksie, blah blah blah! Troy Percival picked up his 7th save and Dan Wheeler gave us another two scoreless innings. What a difference. Did you see Shawn Camp by the way? He&#8217;s gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonnanstine shines in win.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   Andy Sonnanstine threw another gem tonight as the Rays beat the Oriole&#8217;s 8-1 to even the series at one. This is creating a nice problem for the Rays as Sonny has pitched very well so far to the tune of four wins in the first month. Jackson is still up and down and Hammel had a rough night last night but they seem to be locked into spots due to the lack of options. We have harped on this but what are the Rays going to do when Kaz comes back Sunday? I&#8217;ve been on board with shopping and moving Edwin Jackson (I still am) but that&#8217;s not likely to happen so I have thought of something and I would like some opinions on it. I&#8217;m not sure so I would like someone to tell me but I believe that Matt Garza has more options. If that is so I would love to see the Rays send him down when Kazmir returns. I like Garza and think he&#8217;ll do fine here and I understand the pressure on the organization to keep him up here because of the trade but it makes more sense to me to send him down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will the Rays do with the pitching staff?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/2008/04/22/what-will-the-rays-do-with-the-pitching-staff/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   There is a conundrum for the Rays they have never had to deal with before. They might have too much pitching. I&#8217;ll say it again, they just might have too much pitching. Crazy right? With Matt Garza due to come off the disable list and make a start on Friday and Scott Kazmir due back in early May the Rays have to make some tough decisions. The easiest choice I&#8217;m guessing would be to option Andy Sonnanstine to AAA Durham and stick with the rotation of Shields, Kazmir, Jackson, Garza and Hammel. What if Sonnanstine puts up another performance like he did Saturday? This is a good problem to have and we can only hope it works out for the Rays. Personally I think Jason Hammel is noticeably improved and from what I&#8217;ve seen from him mechanically and situational pitching he is for real and should be a good 4 or 5 starter in this league. The jury is still out on Matt Garza on whether the Twins pulled a fast one on us or not. I like his stuff but the rest leaves a lot to be desired. His mechanics are a little off and I&#8217;m not sure what to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wow, Sonny dominates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tampabaysportsblog.com/2008/04/19/wow-sonny-dominates/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[   I couldn&#8217;t wait to write about this one. I&#8217;ve been very critical of the Rays so far this season and with good reason. Tonight there is nothing but good to talk about. Andy Sonnanstine threw a picture perfect ballgame and the entire team played well behind him. Everyone looked good on the field and at the plate. Longoria had a tough night with the stick and Upton made another dumb mistake on the bases but that&#8217;s minor within the whole show tonight. Jason Bartlett didn&#8217;t meet me at the bar but he showed signs of snapping out of his funk. The whole team should feel good about things tonight. It&#8217;s nice to have nights like this and, with the fight coming on in half an hour, this two hour game is exactly what the doctor ordered. Related Posts:Pena back in lineup. Bartlett needs some time off.Sonnanstine shines in win.Good Rays&#8230;Rays still cruising, Yankees fans should be ashamed.The Rays defense IS better.Rays win behind Shields almost perfect game.It&#8217;s official, B.J. Upton is the dumbest player in baseball!Rays lose a tough one.and the bad Rays.Rays pull out game 1 in Toronto. Technorati Tags: Andy Sonnanstine, BJ Upton, Evan Longoria, Jason Bartlett, Tampa Bay Rays, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitching proving to be a possible excess of talent.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Garza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The Rays may have a good problem on their hands here. With Jason Hammel and Edwin Jackson seemingly improved and making consistently good starts the Rays are holding down the fort pretty well with Kazmir and Garza out. Then Jeff Niemann comes in and performs nicely in his first major league start adding to the promise. Now Matt Garza and Scott Kazmir are heading to Vero Beach for rehab and may be back soon. When they come back the Rays have a dilemma, what to do with all this pitching? This is a little exaggerated as we all know these guys could revert back to last years form at any time and there is no such thing as too much pitching. This is nice to see with the Rays after all these years of horrid pitching and bad draft picks. There is a ton of pitching on the farm on the way and with everyone doing fairly well there could be some interesting things to deal with. Andy Sonnanstine has seemed to pitch his way back to Durham so that should be an easy one. If Niemann performs well again today it&#8217;s going to be hard to send him [...]]]></description>
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