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2023: The Year of the Oblique Injury

About a week ago, I was listening to my daily dose of the Just Baseball podcast, which you can find all their information on their website here. During one of their episodes, they prompted a question about Oblique Injuries and that there seemed to be more of them during this year’s spring training. Aram Leighton […]

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Exorcising the Devil: When the Tampa Bay Rays Became the Tampa Bay Rays

The Rays are celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2023, with the team playing its first game back in 1998. As such, the team unveiled a new commemorative logo for the upcoming season, featuring both the burst of sunshine synonymous with the team today and the classic ray logo that the franchise started with (that is […]

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The 2008 Phillies: Relived 15 Years Later

From 2006-2011, The Phillies had assembled one of baseball’s best rosters. Although there isn’t much success to show from it, 2008 is an exception. In 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies finished 92-70, winning the NL East, and eventually winning the World Series, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays in 5 games. This season will be remembered forever […]

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Austin Meadows Holds the Key in 2023 For Detroit

It is no secret that the Detroit Tigers were the worst team at the plate last year. Within all the disaster and failure the 2022 season brought us, one player slid out of public view. No, not Eduardo Rodriguez either… but Austin Meadows. The 27-year-old outfielder we acquired from Tampa Bay. A player who was […]

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Remembering Joe Ross’ Time With the Nationals

Joe Ross signed a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants on January 30, ending his 8-year tenure with the Washington Nationals. He was a former top pitching prospect acquired in a trade. He showed a lot of promise throughout his big-league career, but mainly due to injuries, he was unable to put it […]

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Sep 16, 2022; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA; Tampa Bay Rays second baseman Taylor Walls (0) looks on from the dugout after scoring a run against the Texas Rangers in the sixth inning at Tropicana Field. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports
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Taylor Walls is the most underrated player on the Rays roster

June 7th, 2022. It is the 10th inning. The Cardinals have managed to take the lead, and now the Rays face a sticky situation. At the start of the inning, Paredes managed to draw a walk off Drew VerHagen. In the second at-bat, Brett Phillips bunted toward third base. Arenado duly picked the ball up […]

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Jason Adam can continue to be key for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2023 – here’s why

In 2022, right handed reliever Jason Adam emerged, seemingly out of nowhere, as one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball. He’d toiled away for four seasons at three different ballclubs, bouncing up and down between Triple-A and the show. When he was first signed, it was foreseen as being a signing to […]

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