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Results Don't Match Rays-ed '09 Hopes

NEW YORK -- The quote of the day on the Rays' lineup card Tuesday, as picked by manager Joe Maddon, was from 19th century biologist Thomas Huxley:"The only medicine for suffering, crime and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom."Huxley was an early proponent of Darwin's theory of evolution, and 150 years later, Tampa...

Andrew Friedman Wins Executive of the Year

Both MLB's awards season and the General Managers Meetings got off to predictable starts at a dinner at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort on Monday night:For orchestrating one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of Major League Baseball, Andrew Friedman of the Tampa Bay Rays is The Sporting News' choice...

Why The Rays Should Thank Brandon Inge

David Price and the Rays are celebrating right now, and for good reason. But a lot of things have to go right for a team to ascend as quickly as Tampa Bay did, and some of them are inevitably beyond your control. In this case, the uncontrollable event involved a Brandon Inge at bat in a Royals-Tigers game in 2006....

Chip Caray Gives Chuck LaMar Credit for Rays' Success

When a team has as much seemingly unexpected success as the Rays have, they tend to make a lot of people look very silly. It starts in the preseason, with so-called analysts predicting they'll win 70 games, and continues when people refuse to believe they're "for real" into August and September. But you'd think by now, as...

Welcome To the Show, Evan Longoria

When does 13 days equal a year? The answer will come at the end of the 2013 when the Tampa Bay Rays will not have to worry about losing Evan Longoria to free agency. Instead, because they had him spend a couple of weeks in Durham, he'll be their property through 2014. All that future planning didn't really hamper them in...

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05/17/12 Another day, another to DL Source: TBO.com - Tampa Bay FL OF Brandon Guyer (strained left shoulder) became the third Ray this week to be placed on the disabled list.
05/07/12 Rays' road to success paved by stability at top Source: MLB - Tampa Bay Rays Andrew Friedman and Matt Silverman were just assuming their new positions as executive vice president of baseball operations and team president, respectively, when the pair met in a conference room at a Houston hotel with a white-haired dude from Pennsylvania via California.
05/02/12 Rays' Andrew Friedman: Speculation about Evan Longoria... Source: Boston Herald - Boston MA Tampa Bay Rays executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman refused to speculate about third baseman Evan Longoria's left leg injury Tuesday until team doctors could examine Longoria later in the day.
05/01/12 Torn hamstring shelves Longoria for 4-8 weeks Source: MLB - Tampa Bay Rays Rays third baseman Evan Longoria will be out four to eight weeks with a partially torn left hamstring, executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said Tuesday afternoon.
05/01/12 Longoria's status remains unclear after injury Source: MLB Contrary to some reports, Evan Longoria's status remains unknown.