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The Rays announced that right-hander Andrew Wantz has cleared waivers and elected free agency. Tampa designated him for assignment a few days ago. He has a previous career outright, which gives him the right to reject further outright assignments in favor of the open market. It was a very brief stint in the majors for […]
The Tampa Bay Rays have missed the playoffs the last two seasons. While a small market team, the Rays have had success in the past. Since 2008, they have made the playoffs nine times and won the American League twice, but they do not have a World Series title. Now, the team could be swinging […] The post How Rays can shock MLB world with Tarik Skubal trade appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Detroit Tigers infielder Gleyber Torres has been recovering from an oblique injury. Torres has been trending in the right direction, and it seems as if he will return on Tuesday. “Gleyber Torres will be activated from injured list tonight and be in Tigers lineup against Rays LHP Steven Matz, manager A.J. Hinch told @MLBNetworkRadio,” Jason […] The post Tigers set to make huge Gleyber Torres move for Rays game appeared first on ClutchPoints .
The Yankees were on the couch on Monday, alongside most of the league, but there were still a couple of notable teams on the docket for them to scoreboard watch. Their biggest challenger for the AL East in the Rays were one of those two, and boy did they get into a barn burner of […]
With the Detroit Tigers mired in a difficult season, Major League Baseball insiders continue to speculate about the future of Tigers ace Tarik Skubal. Skubal is battling injury, and some insiders think that Detroit will trade him this season. According to a report in The Athletic, insiders wonder if the Tampa Bay Rays will get […] The post MLB rumors: Insiders wonder if Rays will get in Tarik Skubal trade mix appeared first on ClutchPoints .
The Detroit Tigers opened up June with a white-knuckle 10-9 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, as one of the worst teams in the majors took down the top squad in the American League. AJ Hinch’s squad went wire-to-wire in the victory, but the team nearly collapsed in characteristic fashion in the […]
Desperate times are calling for desperate measures in St. Petersburg. The post BSB: Griffin Jax Is the Rays’ Latest Starter Project appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
Which is more painful, losing a blowout? Or climbing back into a blowout and then losing by just one run? From the Rays standpoint, this game felt like one of those punishments imposed by the gods in Greek myth. Like Sisyphus, on several occasions the Rays seemed poised to roll that boulder back up the […]
The Tigers collected a rare W tonight in their 10-9 win over the Rays. It’s no secret that the Tigers have had a rough go of it over the past month. They just finished being swept by the White Sox, and the last thing anyone wanted to do after that was face the top team […]
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Detroit Tigers (22-38) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (36-20) Time/Place: 6:40 p.m., Tropicana FieldSB Nation Site: DRaysBayMedia: Detroit SportsNet, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio NetworkPitching Matchup: RHP Ty Madden (0-0, 2.38 ERA) vs. RHP Griffin Jax (1-3, 3.60 ERA) Lineups TIGERS RAYS Kevin McGonigle – SS Yandy Diaz – DH Dillon Dingler – C Jonathan Aranda – 1B Kerry Carpenter – LF Richie Palacios – […]
It was a day of crooked numbers for much of the American League East. The Yankees rode their 13-run (!) third inning to victory over the Athletics. Meanwhile, Boston and Toronto were on opposite ends of high-scoring games with the BoSox emerging victorious as the Jays got routed by Baltimore. Unfortunately for New York, Tampa […]
Angels outfielder Jose Siri robbed a grand slam on Sunday against the Rays, reaching over the short wall in left to bring back a would-be homer from Taylor Walls. In the process of saving four runs, Siri also preserved the lunch spread (video via MLB). 1. Yankees’ wild third inning The Yankees racked up 13 […]
The Rays signed Cam Booser this past offseason as a non-roster invitee. He performed well enough during Spring Training to earn a spot on the Rays’ 40-man roster and remain in the organization’s plans despite opening the season in Durham. Booser has the lowest walk rate of his career while still getting above average swing-and-miss […]
This was the 8th week of full minor league play (stats are entering play on Sunday, May 31st). According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), 22-year old Caden Bodine has regained his spot as the top hitter spot in the Rays system. The backstop was recently added to Baseball […]
The Detroit Tigers ended May in a most miserable fashion, falling to the Chicago White Sox on the road, 2-1, to complete the sweep while finishing the month with just six wins in 28 tries. I have nothing further to say on the matter. On Monday, the team heads to Florida to take on the […]
June is here, and with it a summer filled with baseball is about to start. The Yankees are in the thick of a division race that promises to go down to the wire as always, sitting 1.5 games behind the Rays but a comfortable 7.5 games ahead of the rest of Toronto, Boston, and Baltimore. […]
Already trailing 3-1 in the third inning, the Los Angeles Angels appeared to be in deep trouble during their Sunday matchup against the Tampa Bay Rays. But then outfielder Jose Siri decided to play hero ball. With the bases loaded, Taylor Walls smashed a ball to left field. Siri tracked it down and went over […] The post Angels’ Jose Siri saves Rays’ delicious buffet spread with grand-slam robbery appeared first on ClutchPoints .
With the Tampa Bay Rays adding pitcher Craig Kimbrel to boost the team’s pitching staff as the ball club looks to make major noise in the AL East, that impact will have to take a backseat for now. As the Rays pitcher was just signed under a week ago, he has sustained a wrist injury […] The post Rays’ Craig Kimbrel signing immediately backfires with injury update appeared first on ClutchPoints .
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The Rays have placed right-hander Craig Kimbrel on the 15-day injured list with a right wrist strain, per a team announcement. The move is retroactive to May 28th. The club is also recalling lefty Cam Booser and righty Trevor Martin from Triple-A. In addition, righty Andrew Wantz is being designated for assignment, removing him from […]
Hello, friends. We were right on the verge of the Orioles really kicking us in the teeth there, weren’t we? If they followed up on sweeping the Rays by losing the first three games to the Blue Jays all in extremely excruciating fashion, that would have started to feel like the season was over again. […]
The ebbs and flows of a long, long baseball season can totally change your mood in a matter of days. Just six days ago, the Yankees had lost three consecutive games against division rivals and had fallen to 5.5 games back of the first-place Rays. Six days later, they have a chance to pull within […]
Drew Rasmussen put in one of his worst performances of the year, getting through just four innings while giving up five runs. Four of those runs came in the first, an uncharacteristically poor inning from the Rays righty. He gave up a single and then two walks — this is a guy who had, before […]
What John Sterling always said was true. You can’t predict baseball, Suzyn. Except sometimes you can have a pretty fair guess. The expected outcomes for the American League’s top two teams came to pass last night because both the Yankees and Rays are better than the A’s and Angels. If you’ll forgive getting blue from […]