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MLB 2024 season preview: Rankings, every team’s playoff odds
Happy MLB Opening Week, baseball fans! After a wild offseason, one thing is clear heading into the new season: Everyone is chasing the two superteams that stand alone in the top tier of our initial 2024 rankings. Whether your team is good enough to go toe-to-toe with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves or […]
Continue readingWay-too-early 2024 MLB power rankings
Now that the Fall Classic is over, it’s time to turn our attention to 2024 — and we’re kicking that off with some way-WAY-too-early power rankings. Where do Texas and Arizona rank after their exhilarating World Series runs? Were the Braves and Dodgers hurt by their division-round knockouts? And where did the Orioles and Astros […]
Continue readingKevin Cash on speculation he’ll join Guardians: ‘Very happy’ with Rays
“I’m very happy here,” Cash said Monday at the season wrap-up news conference. “I’m under contract here and looking forward to next year, for sure.” The 64-year-old Francona recently stepped down as Cleveland manager. He has been slowed by major health issues in recent years. Cash played for Francona with the Boston Red Sox and […]
Continue readingRays’ Shane McClanahan out for season with left arm injury
The Rays moved the left-handed ace from the 15-day injured list to the 60-day IL before Saturday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians. He was placed on the 15-day IL on Aug. 4. McClanahan is scheduled to see Dr. Keith Meister on Monday. Options under consideration include Tommy John surgery. He missed the 2016 collegiate season […]
Continue readingTyler Glasnow’s back improving, but Rays push back start 2 days
Glasnow played catch, including long toss, for 11 minutes and then had a 14-pitch bullpen session Friday He was scratched from a start last weekend because of the spasms and was shut down until Wednesday after getting an injection. “He looked good,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. “He could go tomorrow, but trying to […]
Continue readingShane McClanahan ‘highly unlikely’ to pitch again in 2023, Kevin Cash says
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay Rays All-Star left-hander Shane McClanahan might not pitch again this season. Rays manager Kevin Cash said before Tuesday night’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals that McClanahan will have his injured left forearm evaluated by another specialist soon but it is “highly unlikely” that he will pitch again this […]
Continue readingRays’ Zach Eflin leaves start vs. Marlins with knee discomfort
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.– Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Zach Eflin left his start Wednesday against the Miami Marlins after four innings because of left knee discomfort. The Marlins won 7-1, and the right-hander dropped to 10-2 in 12 home starts this season after allowing five runs and seven hits. Eflin was hurt while attempting to field […]
Continue readingMLB trade deadline 2023: Hypothetical Ohtani blockbusters
Two weeks before the Aug. 1 MLB trade deadline, the Los Angeles Angels are hovering around the .500 mark, which leaves one question hanging over the entire sport: Will the Halos trade free-agent-to-be Shohei Ohtani? Though we don’t yet know what the Angels’ decision will be, we aren’t about to let that stop us from […]
Continue readingRays pitcher Drew Rasmussen needs third surgery on elbow
Rasmussen’s surgery is scheduled for July 24, and the procedure will be done by Dr. Keith Meister. “Unfortunately, he’s going to miss the rest of the year,” Cash said. “He will get what they’re calling the brace put in. … Dr. Meister just felt like this is probably the best course of action to get […]
Continue readingPirates acquire 1B Ji-man Choi in trade with Rays
The move gives the Pirates a veteran bat with a chance to provide the team with a short-term solution at a position it has struggled to fill since trading Josh Bell to the Washington Nationals in December 2020. The 31-year-old Choi is a career .239 hitter in seven seasons, with 61 home runs and 225 […]
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