Editors Note – This piece was put together entirely by my great friend and ex season ticket partner (ex to the Rays, still have season tix with him to the Bucs) Daniel Edwards.
As I pondered which Rays would be in St. Louis on July 14, I decided to make my own projections according to the [...]

What do you think of those moves?
A good friend of mine, David Diaz, a retired bass guitarist, emails me from time to time asking certain questions about the Rays and Bucs. I will start responding to them here on Rayhawk as mini-posts.
These questions were in repsonse to the demotion of Andy Sonnanstine [...]

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with the writer over at Marlin Maniac, Michael Jong.  Jong’s musings about the Marlins and baseball in general are top tier and should be checked out on the regular.  We shot the sh$$, so to say, about the Rays and Marlins series and both teams in general.
Without [...]

The Rays exacted a small piece of revenge today against the World Champion Phillies @ Tropicana Field.
Both starting pitchers, Joe Blanton and Matt Garza were stellar.

Pitchers
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
HR
PC-ST
ERA

M Garza
(W, 5-5)
8.0
3
1
1
3
7
1
117-69
3.61

Joe Blanton pitched 7 strong innings, allowing 2 runs, before his bullpen came in and let the game blow wide open in the bottom of the 8th. JC [...]

I have made a few references over the last couple weeks about what I think the appropriate role is for the Rays young star David Price on the 09 Rays.  He has had a variety of control issues that have led to some very short outings.
Yesterday, in his 5th start of the season, he was [...]

DATE

GAME

W

L

ERA

G

GS

CG

SHO

SV

SVO

IP

H

R

ER

HR

BB

SO

NP-S

GO-AO

MAY 25
@CLE
0
0
5.40
1
1
0
0
0
0
3.1
4
2
2
1
5
6
100-57
2-2

MAY 30
MIN
1
0
3.00
1
1
0
0
0
0
5.2
5
1
1
0
2
11
108-76
2-4

May Total:

1
0
3.00
2
2
0
0
0
0
9.0
9
3
3
1
7
17
208-133
4-6

DATE

GAME

W

L

ERA

G

GS

CG

SHO

SV

SVO

IP

H

R

ER

HR

BB

SO

NP-S

GO-AO

JUN 06
@NYY
0
0
2.45
1
1
0
0
0
0
5.2
2
3
1
1
5
3
106-53
8-6

JUN 11
LAA
0
0
2.37
1
1
0
0
0
0
4.1
2
1
1
0
6
6
105-61
3-3

June Total:

0
0
1.80
2
2
0
0
0
0
10.0
4
4
2
1
11
9
211-114
11-9

From – MLB.com
Before I started talking about this, I wanted everyone to have a peek at the 4 games that Price has pitched thus far.  He had the one truly dominant game vs the Twins on the 30th of May where he showed off the dominance that made him [...]

While the Rays are 2 games under .500, they have the third best run differential in the league at +46.  That trails only the Sox and the Dodgers, the teams with the two best records in baseball.  Run differential is a great playoff indicator.
How does Texas continue to suceed with no pitching.  If they do [...]