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Manny Ramirez, Johnny Damon Officially Reunited as Rays

Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon, together again. "We're baaack," Ramirez said Tuesday as he and Damon settled in for their first meeting with the media as members of the Tampa Bay Rays. The event at times bore a closer resemblance to a scene from a buddy cop movie than the usual collection of introductory platitudes...

Joe Maddon Speaks About Rays' Makeover

One of the teams with the most to lose at the Winter Meetings is the Tampa Bay Rays. Carl Crawford, Rafael Soriano, and Carlos Pena all seem destined for new teams, so the defending AL East champs should look quite different in 2011. Their manager, Joe Maddon, addressed the media on Tuesday and talked about those...

Joe Maddon Digging Into Rays' Rebuilding

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Joe Maddon knows what it's like to be at or near the top in baseball. He has a World Series ring from 2002, when he was the Angels' bench coach, and his Rays teams have won the rugged AL East two of the last three seasons. At heart, though, Maddon remains the type of guy who relishes underdog...

The Starting Rotation: A Managing Tree

Get your weekend off on the right foot with an eclectic look around the major leagues from Pat Lackey and Andrew Johnson in The Starting Rotation. The Ace: Scioscia's Legacy We hear a lot about coaching trees in football and basketball. That's partly because they are so easy to trace, but mostly because a head coach's...

FanHouse TV: Kudos to Roy Halladay; Managers of the Year Preview

The awards season continued on Tuesday as Roy Halladay won the NL Cy Young Award. That outcome was not surprising, but the battle for Wednesday's awards is wide open. FanHouse TV's Steve Phillips looks ahead to the Manager of the Year selection in both leagues. Click to watch:

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06/02/12 Longoria progressing nicely Source: TBO.com - Tampa Bay FL 3B Evan Longoria 's rehab from a partially torn left hamstring has progressed to the point where it includes daily hitting and fielding drills on the stadium field.
06/01/12 Buccaneers' Schiano tosses first pitch Source: MLB - Tampa Bay Rays As a first-year head coach, the Buccaneers' Greg Schiano is still familiarizing himself with the community, and he visited the local ballpark on Friday.
06/01/12 More time means more steals for Johnson Source: MLB Elliot Johnson has nine stolen bases in 40 games this season after stealing just six in his previous 77 games.
06/01/12 Cut4: Schiano makes Maddon chase after first pitch Source: MLB - Tampa Bay Rays For the Bucs' sake, let's hope Greg Schiano's first NFL season goes a bit better than his first pitch at Tropicana Field on Friday night.
06/01/12 MLB Awards: Picking the AL Award Winners Entering June Source: Bleacher Report I think Sparky Anderson put it best when he said, "A baseball manager is a necessary evil" (h/t Baseball-Almanac.com ). Joe Maddon is different.