I have taken a few days to write a post about the trade of Scott Kazmir for multiple reasons.

The trade supposedly fell through at one point
I needed proper time to read about low level minor league talent that I do not have an in depth knowledge of
The inclusion of the player to be named later [...]

The Tampa Bay Rays handed Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay his worst loss in over 2 years last night, a huge win that kept us within 3 games of the WC leading Boston Red Sox.
Jeff Niemann survived an awful start and kept his composure to give the Rays 6.1 innings.  He gave up 5 runs, [...]

The Texas Rangers, after winning two straight vs the Boston Red Sox have taken over sole possession of first place in the Wild Card Standings.  The Rays, after winning two straight vs the Toronto Blue Jays now sit 3 full games behind the Sox, and 3.5 games behind the Rangers.
The Rays worked two efficient games [...]

After winning 4 out of 5 and making a move up the AL East and WC Standings, the Rays have dropped their last 3 games by a combined score of 25 to 9.    Two of the games were quite embarassing losing 11-2 on Sunday to Ryan Rowland Smith and getting shut out last night [...]

The Rays, who much to my chagrin made 0 moves at the MLB trading non-waiver trading deadline two weeks ago, have made two moves to shore up two of our three weakest areas on the team.  They have added Russ Springer and Gregg Zaun to augment the bullpen and catching defenisve respectively. Joe Dillon and Michel [...]

Two days after declaring that the Rays were finished, they completed a 2 game sweep of the Boston Red Sox to close the Wild Card gap to 3 games, and the division lead for the Yanks to 5.5 games.
I loved two things in particular about last nights game.  The first was the change in lineup [...]

I hate to be the pessimist, because generally that is not my disposition when it comes to any of our 3 Tampa Bay teams.  This year with the Rays though, I foresaw a lot of issues that are coming to fruition and have failed to have been addressed.  It’s not that today’s loss, while embarassing, [...]