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With the signing of James Loney and the trade for Yunel Escobar, the opening day roster is starting to come together, and the number of spots eligible for upgrade are starting to dwindle. Here’s a look at what the roster might look like if the season started today. Notes on the projection are below… LINEUP: With the addition of Yunel Escobar, it now looks like Ben Zobrist can back to playing second base versus righties and right field versus lefties with Ryan Roberts and Matt Joyce playing the other two spots in that menageaplatoon. If you are looking for spots where the Rays can still upgrade the offense, the most likely spots are left field, where Sam Fuld and Brandon Guyer are penciled in,whitney mercilus jersey 365djerseys.com L4, and DH, where everybody is penciled in,ryan jersey 365djerseys.com H1. A Luke ScottAlfonso Soriano mix at DH and in the OF would look nice. BENCH: Two of the spots are spoken for with onehalf of the catcher platoon and onethird of the RF2B mix,robert griffin iii jersey. The other two spots depend on what happens in the lineup, but Sam Fuld and Sean Rodriguez? are the most likely candidates. ROTATION: Obviously this depends on whether or not somebody is traded. If somebody goes, Alex Cobb is the most likely addition although you can make a strong case for Chris Archer,cheap titans jerseys. BULLPEN: With the trade of Burke Badenhop, it would appear that six of the seven spots are spoken for. There has been some talk of bringing back Kyle Farnsworth or JP Howell, but neither seems likely. More likely it will be some free agent that nobody else wants and comes in on a cheap contract,Tate Jersey.

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This is a few days old, but we have been busy. Sue us. We’ll give you $20. In , John Romano makes an effort to praise Delmon Young for his success this season and tout the 21year old for rookieoftheyear. Unfortunately, Mr. Romano can’t just praise Young and what he has accomplished on the baseball field. He is unable to just gives us the numbers and compare them to other rookies in the American League. No. Mr. Romano must make it clear to all of us, that he and Delmon Young have a tumultuous history,cheap colts nike jerseys 365djerseys.com L3. We were unaware of this until Mr. Romano felt the need to point it out to us. When Mr. Romano tried to approach Delmon about doing a story, he was turned away. Mr. Romano tries to imply that he is the bigger man by praising Young, and putting aside his dislike for the young slugger,cheap miami heat jerseys. Instead he comes off as a bitter, whiny 12year old that did not get ice cream after dinner. The plan was to talk to Young about his candidacy Sunday morning, but he is a man of few words. Or, in this case, one word. “No,”,Cheap J.J. Watt Jersey 365djerseys.com E1; he said, wagging a finger and walking away. In Delmon’s defense, he doesn’t like me. If I may speak for him, and I suppose I have to, I’,cheap golden state warriors jerseys;d say he hates me. Which doesn’t make him unique, or even misguided. The problem is his reputation as an individual is still catching up to his prowess as a player. In simpler terms, Young can be a petulant brat. Mr,Buffalo Bills Nike Jerseys. Romano claims that the “The real issue is Young’s talent. It is undeniable, and it is impressive.”; If that is the case, then why does Mr. Romano even need to bring up the battossing incident or the quotes in USA Today last year? If that is the case, then why must Mr. Romano resort to namecalling, by referring to Delmon as “a petulant brat”;? We understand the plight of the clubhouse reporter/columnist. They are just trying to do their job and sometimes they need to write things that may be taken as offensive by the players/teams they cover. But if a player chooses not to speak to a certain writer, that writer needs to remain professional and objective. Mr. Romano was unable to do this. Nobody needs to know that Delmon Young and Mr. Romano do not get along. Nobody needs to know that Delmon Young won’t answer Mr. Romano’s questions. And nobody needs Mr. Romano to tell us what he thinks of Delmon Young as a person. Rather than remain professional, Mr. Romano took his personal beef with Delmon Young to print. Mr. Romano tried to make sure all of his readers know that Delmon is brat. Instead Mr. Romano let all of his readers know that he is a ****. Grit your teeth and give Young his due []

Today is MLB’s AllStar game and we decided this would be a good time to take a look back at the “12 Days of Raysmas” series we ran this past offseason, in which we outlined 12 wishes for the 2008 season…Let’s see how the Rays are doing so far…,cheap ed reed jersey 365djerseys.com E8,cheap steelers nike jerseys; ONE Evan Longoria in the opening day lineup []: OK, we did not get Dirtbag in the opening day lineup, but he was in the lineup for game 11. Of course there was plenty of uproar at the time, but in hindsight, 10 games sure doesn’,Arizona Cardinals Jerseys;t seem like much. After all, that is less than a DL stint. TWO new pitchers in the rotation by the allstar break []: Well, the names are all the same, but can anybody argue that the Rays do have two new pitchers in the rotation,cheap 49ers jerseys 365djerseys.com C5? We say ‘Yes’. Andy Sonnanstine and Edwin Jackson have taken gigantic leaps forward in their careers and barely resemble their 2007 incarnations. Both pitchers have lowered their ERAs by more than a run. Sonny is 103 after going 610 last year and Jackson has already equaled his win total from a year ago. THREE AL AllStars []: This wish came true. Scott Kazmir and Dioner Navarro were named initially and Evan Longoria won the fan voting for the final spot on the AL roster. FOUR winning records against AL East foes []: The Rays are 83 versus Baltimore, 51 against the Jays, 66 against the Sox and 57 against the Yankees,bengals jerseys. Well, the Rays are beating up on the “other two”, something they have to do. And really, “in the neighborhood” of .500 against the Sox and Yankees is pretty darned good. FIVE players with at least 25 home runs []: The Rays will come nowhere near this mark. In fact, only Evan Longoria and Carlos Pena appear to be good bets to hit 25 and Eric Hinske will be close if he continues to receive regular playing time. BJ Upton has been a huge dissppointment in the power department and Cliff Floyd has spent too much time on the DL. SIX months with at least 14 wins []: The Rays have 14 wins in April, 19 in May and 16 in June. So far, so good. SEVEN relatively healthy months of Rocco Baldelli []: Oops. EIGHT ejections for Joe Maddon []: We knew this number was high when we wrote it. Our point was just to see a more fiery Joe Maddon in 2008. We think most would agree he has been. As for ejections, the only one we remember is the June 11th contest against the Angels, which was the 8th of Papa Joe’s career and 4th against his former team. NINE nohit innings from Scott Kazmir []: Both Matt Garza and James Shields have 1hitters to their credit this season. In fact, now that we have seen The Garza Complex on a regular basis we actually think he is the most likely of the trio to throw a nohitter. As for Kazmir, we would be excited if he ever completed a game. TEN meaningful games in September []: This looks like a lock at this point. ELEVEN walkoff wins []: The Rays are well on their way to making this wish come true with 7 of their 36 home wins so far in 2008 coming via walkoff. TWELVE major league pitchers []: Injuries have kept this from happening yet, but as soon as Troy Percival and Al Reyes come back from the DL, a decent major league pitcher is going to have to be Designated For Assignment or traded (Jason Hammel or Gary Glover appear most likely). That is an indication that the Rays finally have 12 major league pitchers on the staff.

THE GOOD: Willy Aybar collected 3 of the Rays 8 hits while Jason Bartlett was 22…With 1 run in already in the 6th, the O’s had 1st and 3rd with no outs. Andy Sonnanstine got out of the jam with a pop up to Aki Iwamura and then an inningending double play started by Willy Aybar who had a great night with the glove,detroit pistons jerseys. The double play showed how quickly Aki has adapted to his new position as he was taking a throw from third rather short, so there was a different angle to the bag, he had to wait longer on the bag and made the necessary strong relay throw…The O’s were rained out last night and will play a doubleheader today. While the Rays should be done with their day by 4:00, the O’s won’t even arrive in Tampa for another 12 hours. THE BAD: The Rays 15 hitters were a combined 118. This just in. That’s not good…Which led to the Rays 4th straight loss after starting the year 13…Justin Ruggiano in his first game since being recalled from Durham, misplayed a ball to right field that got over his head and instead of sprinting after the ball that should have already been in his glove, he decided to turn and look back and make sure everybody in the stadium new he lost the ball in the lights. If it wasn’t so painful, it might have actually been funny. Like when somebody trips over a crack in the sidewalk and they immediately turn back to look at what could have possibly reached up and grabbed the foot…With the game still in reach in the 7th, the Rays got a leadoff double from Willy Aybar and he failed to score…The 3run homer in the 8th was the ladykiller…0 stolen base attempts,Ben Tate Jersey 365djerseys.com E1. Like a wise man once said, You can’t steal first base, and the Rays could not get any of their speedsters on first. THE TELLING: Yesterday there was some speculation that JP Howell could still get the open starters slot on Sunday with Matt Garza on the DL. Howell faced 9 batters last night indicating that he is not a candidate afterall…With Cliff Floyd now on the DL,Cleveland Browns Jerseys, Eric Hinske and Nathan Haynes will share the RF/DH duties against righties, while Jonny Gomes and Justin Ruggiano will get the starts against lefties. DEVIL RAYS WEBTOPIA… “Going through a full season you’re going to have a lot of injuries, especially in your starting rotation, you just deal with it,”,cushing jersey 365djerseys.com B4; Percival said.”;Usually it doesn’t happen this early in the season,cheap atlanta hawks jerseys, but these guys have been around a long time [in the bullpen],”; he said. “We just have got to suck it up until we get everybody healthy and they go out there and start going seven, eight innings at a time.”;

John Jaso is from northern California, so you can imagine he is pretty excited about being traded to the Seattle Mariners, that he is “very excited about that.” He also explained why he struggled so much in 2011… “I think it was a little bit of second year stuff…,ed reed jersey 365djerseys.com L2;Defensively, I had a little bit of a groin issue and then my oblique injury. I definitely played through my oblique for a while and it kind of hurt my play…I ran into some pretty bad streaks there for a while. I was connecting with some balls and they weren’,cushing jersey;t falling.” We don’;t think the Rays were ever concerned that Jaso couldn’;t hit,cheap san antonio spurs jerseys. He is obviously a better hitter than he showed in 2011,Wholesale Chris Wells Jersey. But the difficulty with Jaso is that his defense is not good enough to justify his spot in the lineup when he is struggling or is not 100 percent healthy,Playoff matchup Falcons run defense vs. Seahawks run offense Atlanta Falcons.

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The bats are alive. The Yankees looked average. Joe’s blood pressure is way down. The contrast between Jeff Neimann and James Shields today was so glaring in their backtoback starts against the Yankees. It was on Joe’s mind all game. Shields, who’s easily got 80 or 90 career starts on Niemann, gives up homers and gets rattled.?Last week it was a balk against Cleveland that threw him off. Crap, a?gentle breeze,cheap robert griffin iii jersey 365djerseys.com E8,cheap Skelton Jersey?seems to unnerve the guy. Niemann is all poise. Coming off an injury without his best stuff today,Green Bay Packers Jerseys 365djerseys.com D6, the walking manbeast of a righthander managed the lead beautifully and clawed his way into the seventh inning and continued his extraordinary road success. Joe wonders what team outside Florida will pay Shields’ salary next year,Denver Broncos Jerseys? Like every selfrespecting Rays fan, Joe was giddy over Reid Brignac jacking two homers into the right field bleachers. And it was nice to see Carlos Pena revive his contract fantasies?look like a hitter. But Joe’s not fooled. To expect much from those guys down the stretch is foolish. The sheer dejection in the FOX announcers’ voices when Brignac’s threerun bomb gave the Rays an 82 lead was disgusting. It’s pathetic that after all those years in the booth — and with the Mets — that Tim McCarver feels compelled to suck up to the Yankees. Tell us another Steve Carlton story, Tim. For Joe’s money, McCarver made every effort not to paint Neimann as the superstar he is. Sure, B.J. Upton failed in yet another aspect of the game, twice fouling off safety squeeze attempts. No surprise,cheap bengals jerseys. Maybe the sprinkler will go off in his hotel room?later and he’ll?get Sunday off.

Yesterday we discussed why we should be . Now we have a reason to be worried about Mayor Foster’s sanity. , Mayor Foster now thinks the Rays will stay in the Trop through the end of the contract in 2027… Foster said he came out of the sometimes tense meeting confident that Sternberg and the Rays organization are prepared to honor their current contract through 2027…”They’re committed to this region, to the city of St. Petersburg and there was no indication that they had intentions of violating the terms of our use agreement at all.” That will never happen, so let’,orakpo jersey;s move on. Foster also said that the city was prepared to fight Major League Baseball with legal action if they try to force a move. But maybe the most telling thing we learn from BayNews9.com is that Mayor Foster left the meeting feeling Sternberg’,schaub jersey;s concerns are more regional… Foster felt Sternberg was concerned with whether the Rays were viable in the collective Tampa Bay region that is currently supporting three major professional sports teams This is something that we have previously discussed around here. We don’t know the answer,Eagles will talk with Lovie Smith on Thursday - phillyburbs.com Sports philadelphia eagles, lovie , but there are reasons to be concerned that the TampaSt,patriots jerseys 365djerseys.com H8. Pete area is only a 1 or 2team region. And if that is the case, we need to keep in mind that the Bucs and Lightning already have chairs in Tampa. So, if the music stops, it will be the Rays that are left without a seat,cheap matt schaub jersey.

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BJ Upton, who is sidelined with a sore ankle, is not ready to call it a season, saying . That’s nice, but what caught our attention was Upton speaking to the press about his shoulder and how it following offseason surgery and how that explains his poor performance this year. [Upton] believes his difficulties at the plate are tied directly to his return from [shoulder] surgery, which sidelined him into spring training and kept him on the disabled list for the first week of the season…”It was just kind of, all right,denver nuggets jerseys, go rehab and if you’re ready to play, you’re ready to play,” Upton said. “I never had time to really work and get the repetitions.”…Even worse,wholesale robert griffin iii jersey, the shoulder remains an issue even now, something in the background that he can’t quite seem to overcome…”It doesn’t hurt by any means, but it’,cheap bears jerseys 365djerseys.com I7;s just not fully there, fully healthy,”,Ravens Nike Jerseys; he said. “It’s healthy enough to play, definitely. Sometimes it aches, sometimes it just feels tired – it’s never that consistency that I’m looking for. One of our biggest concerns heading into the season was how Upton would adjust to life after shoulder surgery. Remember, this was not a onetime injury. Upton had injured his shoulder in the same manner (during a swing) each of the past six seasons. This just happened to be the first time the injury required surgery. Upton either needed to change his swing and risk losing his amazing bat speed or keep his swing the same and risk reinjuring the shoulder. On the surface, it appears as though Upton has not changed his swing. And one has to wonder if that has hindered his recovery from surgery. Either way,redskins jerseys 365djerseys.com K6, this at least provides hope that their is a better Bossman Junior on the horizon for 2010. Tampa Bay Rays’ B.J. Upton aggravates ankle injury in return to lineup [] Despite ankle, Upton still wants to play this year []

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C’mon, you guys knew this was coming eventually…There is a general sense amongst some of our readers that all we do is bash the Rays media coverage. The truth is we actually admire most of the working media and respect most of their work. We just get a sense that the Rays media coverage can at times be lazy. Just because the Rays were a secondclass team for many years doesn’t mean we as fans deserved secondclass coverage. So while our frustration can manifest itself at times on this site,cheap titans nike jerseys, we want to know what you guys think of various members of the Rays media coverage,cheap superbowl ravens jerseys,cheap orlando magic jerseys 365djerseys.com C2. Next up…Tampa Tribune beat writer Marc Lancaster… Marc Lancaster gets a demerit right off the bat for being a University of Georgia graduate, but we will try to look past that. Before coming to the Tampa Tribune Lancaster covered the Reds for the Cincinnati Enquirer and as far as we can tell, he was one of the first baseball beat writers to start blogging on a newspaper’s website. For the last three years he has covered the Rays for the Tampa Tribune and spends a lot of time blogging on the paper’s website under the title of ““,J.J. Watt Jersey 365djerseys.com Z2;. We have on occasion, been…ok and yet we never take the time to praise Marc. We do like 87,los angeles lakers jerseys.3% of his work. But he seems to disappear when we need him most. While we were updating this site yesterday 21 times with trade rumors and reports, that was based on a report from the day before. Lancaster is the beat writer for the Rays with a blog that is supposed to be utilized to provide information in a more timely manner than the morning paper. And yet, with all the buzz surrounding the Rays yesterday, Lancaster was noticiably absent. So: Do you like Marc Lancaster? And let’s hear your reasons in the comments…

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