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		<title>Rays sign Kapler, really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rays have inked Gabe Kapler to a one year $1 million deal to be the fourth/fifth outfielder for 2009. They have been fairly active with minor leaguers too but I&#8217;ll leave that stuff to Rays Index. I&#8217;m as conflicted as a person be about this signing considering he&#8217;s a reserve outfielder. I like it in a sense because Kapler&#8217;s a decent outfielder and could platoon well with Gabe Gross if needed, but why do we need a platoon backup situation? I&#8217;ve never been in favor of platoons in general because I&#8217;ve always felt that if a guy can play, he can play, screw the other crap. Stats say otherwise and that&#8217;s the world we now live in so I&#8217;ll go with it. I don&#8217;t know much about Kapler other than he was once a highly touted prospect who turned into a journeyman type that was coaching before he decided to jump back into the player ranks. The problem I have with this signing is that Kapler got a mil and Rocco got less, granted there&#8217;s incentives, from the Red Sox. Marc Topkin tried to justify by saying that the Baldelli deal &#8220;could be&#8221; worth more because of playing incentives, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baldelli officially gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heater has put out a post that Rocco Baldelli is all but gone. Rocco has basically become an afterthought now with the signing of Pat Burrell and the limited funds left that we assume will go toward the bullpen. That&#8217;s fine. The Rays owe nothing to Rocco and Rocco owes nothing to the Rays. I do find myself lost at the destinations that are being mentioned though. Here&#8217;s the list being reported. Pirates/Orioles:The Rays just got themselves out of the perennial losers club and Roc got to be a part of it, why go back to one? Either of these teams would be a horrible decision for Roc unless it was a one year deal just to prove he can play again, but he has even stated that he&#8217;s unsure if he can play the field everyday. Bad Choices here. Yankees: Why why why?! It&#8217;s bad enough that Roc has drawn comparisons to Joe DiMaggio, why go and put that type of pressure on yourself? Injuries, the Joe D comparison and the pressure to win would make Baldelli target practice for the firing range of reporters and fans in New York. Bad! Reds: Can&#8217;t DH there and they&#8217;re another non contender. The [...]]]></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>Rays trade Jackson for Joyce?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MLB Trade Rumors has a post up that the Rays have traded Edwin Jackson to the Detroit Tigers for OF Matt Joyce. I&#8217;ve been duped by these rumors before so I&#8217;m not reporting it as being true, but if it is I really like this move. I obviously wanted a different Tigers OF but this one really makes sense for the Rays. Joyce is a young player, 24, with a lot of upside and is a decent outfielder from my understanding. I only saw him play a couple times so it&#8217;s hard to judge, but by numbers alone I would think the 12 homers he hit in 242 at bats in Detroit would translate to around 17-19 in our stadium. This fits extremely well into the Rays plan in every way as Joyce is cheap, under team control for a few years and has tremendous upside. It doesn&#8217;t hurt that he&#8217;s a Tampa native as well either. He&#8217;s left handed, which goes against what the Rays were shopping for, but he&#8217;s young and should be able to play every day. It solves the RF problem for us in theory and opens a spot in the rotation for David Price. It looks [...]]]></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 grab Bradford, Crawford back in lineup.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brannelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   A couple of Rays notes for the day. The snagged reliever Chad Bradford off of waivers from the Orioles and will be sending the infamous &#8220;player to be named later&#8221;. Bradford is a capable reliever who I can&#8217;t stand watching, but is effective. He is one of the few submarine style pitchers left in the game and is a groundball machine. I would expect to see him in those situations that require a double play ball and against tough right handed hitters. He&#8217;s having a good season to the tune of a 3-3 record with a 2.45 ERA. We can only speculate on who&#8217;s going to be the odd man out and I would have to guess Al Reyes. Rays Index thinks Jason Hammel may be gone (who they don&#8217;t seem to be a big fan of) but I gotta think that Hammel serves more of a purpose than Reyes and there isn&#8217;t anyone to really take his long relief spot. After watching the 85 mph balloons Reyes has been throwing lately I gotta think he&#8217;s on the way to the DL at least. In other news The Heater is also reporting that Carl Crawford will be back in 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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		<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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