Roy Halladay Sweeptstakes

With the Phillies looking like they are officially shifting their focus to SP Cliff Lee from the Cleveland Indians, do the Rays stand a better chance of landing Roy Halladay than they this time last week?
Scott Kazmir’s start last night would certainly help his value on the market.  He pitched a 7 inning [...]

The Toronto Sun is reporting that the Tampa Bay Rays have entered into the sweepstakes for Ace Roy Halladay.
Upon hearing originally that Halladay was available, the Rays and the Phillies seemed to have the best chances (as far as packages were concerned) of landing Halladay.  Reports originally surfaced that they were looking for one active [...]

In a real depressing turn of events, Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game against the Rays today.
Gabe Kapler should have ended the perfect game in the 8th with a HR, but was robbed by defensive replacement Dewayne Wise.  The catch, considering the magnitute of the moment, has to rank up there as one of the [...]

This post was written by a regular contributor on the Pewter Plank, our draft guru, John Crimmins.
In the past 3 years we as Rays fans have grown to love our bespectacled skipper nearly as much as his own players have. Joe Maddon has an analytical mind and is not afraid to go against the grain [...]

With one feel for the wall and jump, a defensive wizardry in left that Rays fans have become accustomed to, Carl Crawford might have finally made himself visible to the rest of baseball.  Even though we went to the World Series last year, and even though if you watch any games, I don’t know how [...]

MVP – Ben Zobrist
I even had a little issue typing that out myself,  and I know a lot of people will probably laugh when they see that, but when comparing the stats of all the hitters on the Rays, it is clear to me that Zobrist is the MVP of this years team.
AVG – .288, [...]

After making up little ground in the standings with our 15 out of 20 game stretch, the Rays followed that up with an abysmal showing and a sweep by the Texas Rangers.

The Rays scored a total of 7 runs in the 3 game series.  This will not suffice, vs any team, let alone a team [...]