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• 30 low-key acquisitions who could pay off big

  12-02-2019 18:57 via mlb.mlb.com
  Fans and analysts spend the entire offseason speculating where the top free agents could go, but sometimes an under-the-radar pickup can end up making a world of difference. As positional competitions begin to heat up at Spring Training camps this month, MLB.com's beat writers were asked to identify one potentially overlooked acquisition for each of the 30 clubs. Here's who they came up with.
  
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• GDT: Kutter Crawford, Ace

  14-05-2024 00:45 via draysbay.com
  
  Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports When the hell did this happen? Go Rays!
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: New York Yankees games 39-41

  13-05-2024 15:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Rays fall to 20-21after three game series at Tropicana Field “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the 13th series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the New York Yankees from May 10th throu
  
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• Rays 6, Yankees 10: Siri’s grand slam not enough as Rays drop series at home

  12-05-2024 23:04 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports The Rays pulled within one in the 7th, but the Yankees pulled away shortly after to win this one.The Rays entered this Mother’s Day showdown against the Yankees sitting at .500 and looking to cap off a 7-2 home stand. Unfortunately, that would not be the case as the Rays would drop Sunday’s series finale by a score of 10-6 following some late inning fireworks by both offenses.For a quick recap of the first half of the game:The Yankees scored one in
  
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• GDT: Luis Gil carved the Rays up like a Christmas ham last time

  12-05-2024 19:25 via draysbay.com
  
  Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Would love to like get a couple hits off him this time!!! Go Rays!
  
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• Life is a SkyRay: Rays 7, Yankees 2

  12-05-2024 01:48 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Randy Arozarena and Yandy Diaz combine for two home runs and six RBIs to beat the Yankees They say the man makes the clothes, the clothes don’t make the man. It’s hard to deny the Tampa Bay Rays continue to look incredible, literally and figuratively, in their new City Connect threads. They wore them once again on their scheduled home Saturday as they beat the New York Yankees 7-2.
  Zack Littell took the mound to start for the Rays. In the top of th
  
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• How the Rays went 38 games without being shutout

  11-05-2024 22:13 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports An analysis of the Rays impossible run to start 2024. Entering the Rays’ series opener against the New York Yankees on Friday, 28 of the 30 Major League teams had been shut out at least once. The only two that hadn’t been shutout? The Atlanta Braves and the Tampa Bay Rays.
  The Braves not having been shut out is no doubt impressive, but it’s easier to explain considering their a top-five WAR team sporting superstars like Ronald Acuna Jr. and
  
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• GDT: The Battle of the Facial Hair

  11-05-2024 21:55 via draysbay.com
  
  David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Mustache vs. Beard! Who will win? Go Rays!
  
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• Taj Bradley shines in debut as Rays offense falters — Yankees 2, Rays 0

  11-05-2024 16:23 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Ump show puts Rays back below .500 in the 9th.We had another close, hard nosed baseball game between the Yankees last night at Tropicana Field.
  Taj Bradley looked very strong in his first start for the Rays this season, going six innings and striking out seven.
  The only caveat of the outing was that he was not aggressive in the zone to Aaron Judge, walking him twice.
  Judge’s second free pass in the fourth proved to be costly, as the Yankees captain would
  
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• 2024 Silver Sunburst Awards: April edition RESULTS

  09-05-2024 14:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The votes are in! Here are your April winners! After a week of voting, the results are in for your inaugural Silver Sunburst Award winners! While April may not have been the month many fans were hoping for, there are certainly standout performers deserving of our monthly Silver Sunburst.
  Winners were decided by DRB readers votes, as well as a vote within the DRB staff and statistics and analysis from these players April performances. Statistics and analysis are wei
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: Chicago White Sox games 36-38

  09-05-2024 03:34 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Rays advance to 19-19 after three game series at Tropicana Field “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the 12th series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the Chicago White Sox from May sixth
  
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• Rays 1, White Sox 4: Rays win streak ends as offense goes quiet

  09-05-2024 03:24 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Does this mean we have to take the City Connects off? The Rays fell to the Chicago White sox 4-1 at Tropicana Field to fall back to .500 on the season and end the electric City Connect win streak.
  Rays starter Aaron Civale went 4 2⁄3 innings giving up two runs on five hits, while White Sox starter Chris Flexen had another solid day against the Rays with six innings allowing just one run striking out eight.
  The game got off to a relatively slow start, wi
  
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• GDT: I don’t care, I want more Skyray

  09-05-2024 00:35 via draysbay.com
  
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• Rays 5, White Sox 1: Behold the power of the Sky Ray

  08-05-2024 03:11 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports All they do is win, win, win no matter what. Can’t stop, won’t stop the Sky Ray.
  Zach Eflin vs. Michael Soroka at the Trop. So how did it all go down?In the top of the first Eflin got the White Sox three-up three-down. In the bottom half, Randy Arozarena got a two-out walk, but got caught stealing to end the inning.With two outs in the top of the second Bryan Ramos singled. Rafael Ortega then reached on a fielding error from Jose Caballero. A flyout end
  
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• Tampa Bay Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 6

  08-05-2024 01:42 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images An electric week has Caminero trying to force his way back to the big leagues Every Monday during the regular season, each minor league team has the day off. This serves as an excellent check point system to check in on how each team and individual prospect is performing. We are now five weeks into the 2024 campaign and some prospects have certainly continued their ascent up the organizational ladder while others are off to less than stellar
  
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• GDT: How long is too long to wear the Skyray?

  08-05-2024 00:35 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Like, is after the sun burns out alright? SKYYYYYYYYYYRAYYYYYYYYYY
  
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• Rays Your Voice: Rays sweep Mets, praise be to Skyray

  07-05-2024 18:37 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Plus a visit from Danny Russell! We are back with a new episode of Rays Your Voice, and we get to talk about a series sweep against the New York Mets! While there was plenty to talk about on the field, we still cannot shut up about how awesome the Rays City Connect uniforms are, and the team agrees. They continue to wear them and are now on a four-game winning streak in the ‘Grit and Glow’ threads.There’s a special appearance from DRB Managin
  
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• Rays: 8, White Sox: 2 - City Connect Streak Continues!

  07-05-2024 03:35 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images DeLuca hits his first Rays HR; Harold Ramirez goes 4-4 IN Rays’ win Rays announced they would bring back the City Connect jerseys for today’s game against the White Sox. Why fix what isn’t broken, right?Flames stay lit, ready to rage. pic.twitter.com/vccqxIq0Cb— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 6, 2024
  Tonight's lineup ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/eVK0Po8h0v— Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) May 6, 2024
  Rays were able to get ru
  
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• GDT: The death of the Skyray has been greatly exaggerated

  07-05-2024 00:35 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports SKYRAYYYYYYYY SKYRAY SKYRAY SKYRAY
  
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• Rays reinstate Josh Lowe, add RHP Edwin Uceta

  06-05-2024 21:00 via draysbay.com
  
  2B Curtis Mead, LHP Jacob Lopez options; Niko Goodrum DFA The Tampa Bay Rays are riding a three-game hot streak in their City Connect jerseys, and will look to keep the good times rolling not only by continuing to wear the jersey’s tonight, but also with five roster moves to keep the team freshOF Josh Lowe reinstated from injured list
  RHP Edwin Uceta added to 40-man roster, promoted
  2B Curtis Mead optioned
  LHP Jacob Lopez optioned
  UTIL Niko Goodrum designated for assignmentLowe’s em
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: New York Mets games 33-35

  05-05-2024 23:41 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Rays advance to 17-18 after three games series in Tropicana Field. “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the 11th series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the New York Mets from May third th
  
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• Rays 7, Mets 6: Pepiouch! Rays lose starter early in close-scoring game.

  05-05-2024 23:10 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports It took ten innings for the Rays to win, but win they did.On Sunday afternoon at the Trop, the Rays were decked out in their City Connect best (even featuring the Sky Ray logo in the score bug! cute!) The Rays were hoping to complete a three-game sweep of the Mets, but a game of back-and-forth leads kept them on their toes.
  Ryan Pepiot took on Luis Severino in the pitching matchup.
  In the top of the first, Starling Marte got a one-out walk, then Francisco Lindor hi
  
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• GDT: SKYRAY

  05-05-2024 19:20 via draysbay.com
  
  SKYRAY SKYRAY
  
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• Rays 3, Mets 1: Shenton works masterful at-bat as Rays win second straight

  05-05-2024 04:53 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports Rays win second straight behind strong pitching and timely patience at plateSaturday night provided a good old-fashioned baseball game backed by strong starting pitching performances and some timely patience at the plate.The Tampa Bay Rays entered Saturday three games under .500 on the year and finished the night only two games under. Zach Littell got the start for the Rays opposite Christian Scott, who made his Major League debut.Littell, donning the City Co
  
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• GDT: Let’s do it again

  05-05-2024 00:45 via draysbay.com
  
  David Banks-USA TODAY Sports CITY CONNECT COME ON, SKYRAY.
  
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• Style It Out With The Brand New City Connect Bobbleheads From FOCO

  04-05-2024 17:00 via draysbay.com
  
  It has been a little while since we last told you about some awesome Tampa Bay Rays products from our good friends at FOCO. As you all know, the Tampa Bay Rays have just unveiled their brand new city connect jerseys for the 2024 season and FOCO has just released some awesome bobbleheads to commemorate the launch of the new uniforms.
  The players included in this launch are Randy Arozarena and Brandon Lowe as well as the infamous mascot of the Rays, Raymond! All three figures are standing in an a
  
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• SkyRays: 10, Mets: 8 - ALL HAIL THE SKYRAY

  04-05-2024 04:23 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images Rays offense explodes behind Johnny DeLuca, Yandy Diaz and Randy Arozarena I AM SO HYPED ITS CITY CONNECTS DAY LETS GOOOOO
  Newly called up Johnny DeLuca and Alex Jackson both in the lineup today:IT'S GLOW TIME. pic.twitter.com/4nWwH9OYdT— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) May 3, 2024
  Series in St. Pete. #LGM pic.twitter.com/KFTEQVGXh7— New York Mets (@Mets) May 3, 2024
  Mets scored first after two back to back singles by Jeff McNeil and Tyrone Taylor wi
  
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• GDT: Alright so City Connect is gonna bring the heat

  04-05-2024 00:30 via draysbay.com
  
  Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports And by heat, I mean runs and hits and quality baseball HAIL THE SKYRAY
  
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• 2024 Silver Sunburst Awards: April edition VOTING

  02-05-2024 14:00 via draysbay.com
  
  You decide who had the best month of April! “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This is the first edition of Silver Sunburst Awards in which readers will vote on who had the best month in the four typical categories.
  The Rays finished the month of April with a record
  
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• 2024 Sunburst Awards: Milwaukee Brewers games 30-32

  02-05-2024 00:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Raysfall to 14-18 after three game series at American Family Field “Sunburst Awards” is a series-by-series evaluation of player performance, where four different awards are given out after each series: Offensive player of the series, defensive player of the series, pitcher of the series, and highlight play of the series. This edition will be covering the tenth series of the season, where the Tampa Bay Rays took on the Milwaukee
  
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