The Tampa Bay Rays, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the American League East Division. The Rays were founded as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998.
ST. PETERSBURG — According to a report by WLNE-TV in Rocco Baldelli's native Rhode Island, Baldelli went to the Cleveland Clinic last week and received news that the doctors had misdiagnosed his illness. Doctors thought he had a mitochondrial disorder, but his condition has now been diagnosed as channelopathy, a non-progressive, highly treatable disease. "It's [...]
Joe Maddon's "Thanks-mas" keeps on giving, and Tuesday night at the Bradenton Salvation Army the Rays manager kicked off this year's offering to some of the less than fortunate in the Tampa Bay area. "Everybody just assumes that people within these circumstances or conditions are people who don't want to work, or they're lazy, or [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — A text message to Matt Joyce in Mexico last Wednesday night echoed all the way from his hometown of Tampa. The text read: "You're coming home." "And I was like, 'OK, you're out of Mexico,' and I didn't even get it that I had been traded," said Joyce on Tuesday afternoon at [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — Akinori Iwamura has been named to Japan's 34-man preliminary roster for the World Baseball Classic. The Rays second baseman played third base for Team Japan in the 2006 Classic and hit .389 in six games for the championship-winning team. Iwamura, 29, played third base in his first season for the Rays in [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — Evan Longoria accomplished a great deal on the field in 2008, and he has been well-rewarded since with multiple awards after the postseason. Longoria's latest honor is to be named the 2008 Rookie of the Year in MLB.com's annual This Year in Baseball Awards presented by State Farm, which was voted on [...]
Do you think that the Rays have any shot at getting Milton Bradley? Also do you think that going after Delmon Young is a good thing? – Matt M., Tampa, Fla. The market ultimately will decide whether the Rays have a shot at Bradley. A depressed market will aid Tampa Bay's cause. Right now, a [...]
ST. PETERSBURG — Jonny Gomes was not tendered a 2009 contract by the Rays on Friday, thereby making the popular outfielder/designated hitter a free agent. The Rays had until midnight ET on Friday to tender contracts to the club's six unsigned arbitration-eligible players. Grant Balfour, Willy Aybar, Dioner Navarro, Jason Bartlett, and Gabe Gross were [...]
LAS VEGAS — Yes, the Rays made it to the World Series in 2008, but the Winter Meetings — and the Yankees' subsequent signing of free-agent left-hander CC Sabathia for big bucks — brought Tampa Bay a reminder of who it must compete against to repeat as American League champions. "We have unique challenges that [...]
LAS VEGAS — After losing one player, the Rays gained another in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft on Thursday morning. The Brewers selected right-hander Eduardo Morlan from the Rays with the No. 16 pick, before Tampa Bay selected right-hander Derek Rodriguez from the White Sox organization with the 19th pick of [...]
The people have spoken and, for the most part, they agree with MLB.com. Asked to select their own top 10 prospects, a chance to voice their own opinions on whom the top prospects in the game are and contrast it to MLB.com's Top 50 list, fans more or less felt MLB.com's list was on target… [...]