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		<title>Rays look ready for &#8217;09.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rays have had a fairly busy offseason and now look pretty well set for the upcoming 2009 season. They have signed a few minor league free agents over the last few weeks to fill things out, including Morgan Ensberg. Ensberg wil most likely end up playing 3B in Durham but is a very nice low risk acquisition. He looked like an up and coming power hitter 6 years ago and hit 94 homeruns from &#8217;03 to &#8217;06. He fell off after that and has hit 13 homeruns since with Houston, San Diego and the Yankees. He could win a bench job and could  be needed if injuries hit either Evan Longoria or Carlos Pena. I like the move with Ensberg. All in all, it was a pretty good offseason for the Rays. I love the Matt Joyce/Edwin Jackson swap and I really think the Rays stole one there. Joyce will most likely start the season in the minors also as the Gabe platoon (Kapler/Gross) will hold down RF until the Rays feel he&#8217;s ready. When you look at how the Rays handle their organization they have seemingly set themselves up pretty nice. Joyce can stay in Durham and develop until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays close to signing Pat Burrell.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Ken Rosenthal, via MLB Trade Rumors, the Rays are close to signing former Phillie outfielder Pat Burrell to a two year $16 million deal. This move makes way too much sense for all parties involved to not happen. Burrell is the right handed bat that the Rays are looking for to slot at DH on a regular basis and he comes fairly cheap. The contract that&#8217;s speculated on above is a perfect fit for the Rays and their budget. I really like this move for a few reasons. Burrell can still hit and we won&#8217;t have to watch him stumble around in the outfield too often. He comes with no baggage and seems like he would fit right in to the clubhouse the Rays currently have.This move also allows the Rays to hopefully leave Fernando Perez in AAA Durham for at least another year of seasoning. It also would allow the Rays to put the Abreu/Giambi fiasco to bed and focus on upgrading the bullpen. I was no fan of Abreu or Giambi so it makes me pretty happy there. With Burrell coming fairly cheap as well this may put Brandon Lyon and/or Joe Beimel into the picture as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rays are smarter than the Yankees.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a busy week in the AL East and I had to sit down and look at it tonight. I&#8217;ve been listening to the radio and reading about the moves being made and I came up with this. The Rays are much smarter than the Yankees.  There are a few good things about being a small market team and they&#8217;re showing during the winter baseball season. Let&#8217;s break it down. The Yankees signed CC Sabathia to a $161 million deal and brought one of the best pitchers in baseball to New York. But how much did this improve them? I honestly don&#8217;t think it improved them much at all. Think about it like this. They signed a guy that won 17 games last year to replace a guy that won 20. Now I&#8217;ll say that Sabathia is better than Mussina and he would&#8217;ve probably won 22 or 23 games with the Yankees last year with the same run support Mussina got, but that&#8217;s still only a 3 game improvement. Not enough for that kind of money. They also signed AJ Burnett to fill in the rotation but they haven&#8217;t re-signed Andy Pettitte yet. That&#8217;s a 4 game improvement if [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<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 avoid an embarrassing sweep at home.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rays ended the madness tonight and got away with a 7-5 win to avoid being swept by the retirement home bandits. They had a big inning in the second in which they scored 5 runs on hits by Gross, Aki and Aybar and things looked back to normal on the mound and in the field. The crowds picked up the last two nights also with 25,000 plus at both games. It got scary but it worked out. Anyway, let&#8217;s get to it. Kazmir still isn&#8217;t right. He is slowly improving but there still appears to be something wrong with him. He threw 6 innings of one hit ball with five walks. That&#8217;s right, 5 freakin walks! I don&#8217;t know how he got away with it against the Yanks but he did. I can only hope that there&#8217;s nothing seriously wrong with him and it all is corrected by the time the playoffs roll around. I have given credit to Jason Hammel in the past for having the toughest job on the team. No more. That was completely embarrassing tonight to have to bring in your closer to finish off a game that you were winning 7-0 in the ninth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays lose another 8-4.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t bring myself to say that the Yankees win, so I say we lose. Apparently the Devil Rays have suited up again and the Yankees have found the fountain of juice. There were a ton of broken bat bloopers, bad infield play and just all around bad luck. I don&#8217;t feel Jackson pitched awful, he was more a victim of circumstance tonight. I&#8217;m not saying he was good, just that the Yanks were catching all the breaks. As much as I hate the Yankees, I&#8217;m not going to overreact to all this though. We&#8217;re still down a couple players, the pitching is going to have some bad outings and the defense can&#8217;t be stellar every night. We all have to remember how things have gone for us this year. Most of the year, with guys like Gabe Gross batting .230ish, we got hits at all the right times in all the right places. I don&#8217;t like any slump coming now, but it happens. So let&#8217;s all just chill. Note time&#8230; No one should ever throw a fastball low and inside to Gabe Gross. That was an absolute bomb he hit. You couldn&#8217;t draw up a better pitch for him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rays have been blessed and WILL make the playoffs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are numerous reasons to think the Rays will or won&#8217;t make the playoffs. We know them all down here. I have watched and been a fan of this team since it&#8217;s inception and I, along with everyone else here, have been waiting for that breakout year like the Bucs or the Lightning had. The Rays compare more to the Bucs for me as I believe this is the first of many years of relevance. The Lightning had a more of a flash and dash type of thing and have struggled to remain a power since their Stanley Cup victory. The Bucs have been up and down since their Super Bowl run yet were &#8220;almost&#8221; there many times before. It&#8217;s hard to predict what the Rays will be. Here are some reasons to think they won&#8217;t make the playoffs. The Pink Sox will make a run as they&#8217;ve been there before and have the firepower to overcome mediocre pitching. The Rays have yet to really slump yet this year. Aside from the losing streak going into the all-star break, they haven&#8217;t stumbled over themselves too much. Injuries have started to hit at the wrong time. Crawford, Longoria and Percival are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glover&#8217;s gone and some other stuff.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Glover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunter Pence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justin Ruggiano]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   The Rays activated reliever Gary Glover today and immediately designated him for assignment. Bye bye Glover, it&#8217;s been fun, uh not really. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got to say about Mr. Glover. Anyway, I had a slow day today so I decided to look at some of the past games this year with Justin Ruggiano to try and get a better hold of what type of player he is. I have come away with the same impression I had before, why no shot for this guy yet? He has decent pop in his bat, is a good fielder, has a decent arm in RF and has basestealing ability. I keep seeing other sites call him a tweener and that is a stupid statement. You can&#8217;t call someone a tweener when they haven&#8217;t played much at the next level. He&#8217;s done enough to earn a shot here and there is no real reason to keep him down at AAA. The thing that is getting to me is that Gomes (I know and I&#8217;m not letting it go either) continues to get limited playing time and complains about it. He says that he needs consistent playing time to get himself going. How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rays in first yet I still must bitch&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BJ Upton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Hinske]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabe Gross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonny Gomes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Yes I am as excited as anyone out there that the Rays are in first. Now this means a few things to me and my few readers out there. First thing is that this series will be intense on the field and in the stands. Going to these games means I will be dealing with all these annoying Sox fans and if the shit goes down on the field, we could be brawling in the stands as well. Anyone ready to post bail for me? My son going to his mother&#8217;s for the week doesn&#8217;t help either, more free time more to drink is bad news! It should be fun though and I&#8217;ll try to keep my cool here. Now all that leads to the fact that my posts will be few and far between over the next few days. I&#8217;ll be taking my camera with me to these games so I&#8217;ll try to have some cool pics when the series is done. Good times. Now, on to my bitch fest. First thing is regarding something I saw over at DRays Bay. In a quick reference on Saturday&#8217;s game I saw something about B.J. Upton being moved into the [...]]]></description>
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