Rays Open Tropicana Field For Light Player Workouts Monday

The Rays are taking an initial — and small — step toward returning to action, opening Tropicana Field on Monday for limited and mostly individual player workouts.

Tampa Bay Times

Former Cardinals Randy Arozarena, Mike Mayers Sizzled This Spring With New Teams, While Others Made Chilly First Impressions

The coverage and box scores spilling out of the Tampa Bay Rays’ spring training provided confirmation for the most consistent thing I heard year after year about a young, speedy, Cuban outfielder scaling his way toward the Cardinals.

Birdland

Opening Day Delayed At Least Two Weeks; Spring Training Games Cancelled

Major League Baseball has cancelled the remainder of its Spring Training games, also announcing that the start of the 2020 regular season will be delayed by at least two weeks due to the national emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic.
St. Louis Official Site

Following the lead of other professional sports leagues around the world and their response to the spread of the novel coronavirus, Major League Baseball has delayed the opening of its regular season by at least two weeks and immediately canceled the remaining spring training games.
Post-Dispatch

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo Has Jokes After Impressive Spring Debut

Over the last two weeks, most people around Rays camp have been looking forward to seeing Yoshitomo Tsutsugo take the field for his first game in the United States.

Tampa Bay Official Site

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo Makes Rays Spring Training Debut

While Yoshitomo Tsutsugo’s performance on the field will ultimately decide if the two-year, $12 million deal was a good investment on the Rays' part, the organization's focus this spring is to help the 28-year-old slugger get acclimated to the United States and the Major Leagues.

Tampa Bay Official Site

Mookie Betts Wins Gold Glove

Fenway Park has some of the more difficult right-field dimensions in all of baseball, but that hasn't stopped Red Sox superstar Mookie Betts from becoming the American League's defensive standard at the position in recent years. The 27-year-old was recognized with his fourth straight American League Rawlings Gold Glove Award on Sunday, topping the Angels' Kole Calhoun and the Astros' Josh Reddick for the honor.

Boston Official Site

Rays Activated Kevin Kiermaier From Injured List

Tampa Bay Official Twitter

Rays Placed Kevin Kiermaier On The Ten-Day Injured List & Recalled Guillermo Heredia

Juan Toribio Twitter

Cardinals First-Half Report Cards: Outfielders

Since this week is the All-Star break across Major League Baseball, we figured it would be the perfect time to assess the Cardinals on their progress thus far this season. As a team, St. Louis comes into the break with a disappointing 44-44 record.

KMOV

David Price Rises To Occasion Again As Red Sox Spilt Doubleheader

Stepping on the hill for the 300th start of his Major League career and facing the team that drafted him 12 years ago, David Price did what he has done on countless occasions throughout his impressive career.

Boston Official Site

Gerrit Cole Takes Tough Loss After Quality Start

The strikeouts were coming fast and furious for Gerrit Cole. The wins will have to wait.

Houston Official Site

Kevin Kiermaier Eyeing 'Huge Rebound Year' In 2019

Kevin Kiermaier has always played with a chip on his shoulder, but he admits that there's some extra motivation heading into Spring Training after a frustrating 2018 season.

Tampa Bay Official Site

Nine Hitters Who Need To Bounce Back In 2019

At this time of year, many teams are searching for upgrades, whether by throwing money at free agents or addressing needs via the trade market.

St. Louis Official Site

Ten Hitters For Rays To Consider

The Rays' premise in getting rid of leading home-run hitter C.J. Cron last week was to create the opportunity to add a better bat. Either to upgrade at the first base / DH spot Cron shared or, better, to add a right-handed hitter with more positional versatility who can make the lineup better in different ways.

Tampa Bay Online

Harrison Bader Deserved Award For Fielding Prowess

Harrison Bader wasn't one of the three finalists for the National League Gold Glove in center field, won for the third straight year by Ender Inciarte. He didn't take the Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award in center either, somehow won by Kevin Kiermaier despite playing only 88 games in the outfield, 30 fewer than Bader did.

St. Louis Official Site

Kevin Kiermaier Exits In Eighth After Stellar Defense

Kevin Kiermaier left Sunday afternoon's game in the eighth inning with an apparent left-shoulder injury after making a pair of stellar catches to rob the Blue Jays of base hits

Tampa Bay Official Site

Khris Davis' Grand Slam Too Little, Too Late Vs. Rays

Khris Davis' grand slam made things interesting, but it wasn't enough as the Athletics fell, 5-4, to the Rays in the series finale on Sunday at Tropicana Field.

Oakland Official Site

Marcus Stroman's Blister Flares Up Again In Lopsided Loss

It's been a season to forget for Marcus Stroman, who couldn't make it out of the second inning in his first start since returning from the 10-day disabled list with a blister injury.

Toronto Official Site

Harrison Bader: Rookie Of The Year?

Repeat something often enough and you start to take it for granted. For example, something I’ve taken for granted is that the National League Rookie of the Year race will inevitably come down to Ronald Acuna vs. Juan Soto. I mean no disrespect to, say, Brian Anderson or Dereck Rodriguez, but this is where I am, and I know I’m not alone. Soto and Acuna have been absolutely sensational, and they’ve drawn themselves a lot of attention. The Braves have a franchise player on their hands. The Nationals do, too. These are two guys who could one day end up in the Hall of Fame.

Fangraphs

What' Harrison Bader's Ceiling? Here's A Comparison With Four Similar Players

My last blog was about how so many people in the prospect evaluation world – including professional scouts – underestimated just how fast Bader is and just how amazing he is defensively. He’s such an intriguing player I wanted to re-visit what we’ve seen from him so far and see if we can find comparable players that might give us an idea of what to expect from him offensively in the future.

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