TAMPA, Fla. - These days, the Tampa Bay Rays, once directly in the path of a serious post-season conversation, have dropped ...

It’s about this time of the baseball season when Major League general managers and decision-makers tug on their gamblers’ ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Right now, the Tampa Bay Rays are not a very good team and threaten a deep descent into baseball purgatory. With only weeks into the present campaign, the season seems to be spinning out ...

By all accounts, Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash is a measured man. Careful with his words and not flashy and elaborate with his moves on the baseball diamond, Cash is seen as reasonable and ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – When Toronto Blue Jays’ second baseman Addison Barger grounded into a force to end a game on September 22 at Tropicana Field, the final out could be edged in history. That ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – For the Tampa Bay Ray, the opening two months of the baseball season have been filled with frustration despair, gloom, and anguish. There have been little or no signs of a once ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – This is all about promises not kept and the credibility of new promises. Given the current conversation centering around a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays, this protracted ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Despite the trajectory of major league baseball, with the dynamics of analytics and the changing use of players, there remains vestiges of the game that resist change. One ...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – With apologies to the renowned English writer Charles Dickens, who penned, “These are the best of times; these were the worst of times,” the expressions could not be reserved ...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – Sports, the popular vernacular holds, is replete with common phrases and half-hearted truths. Take baseball, for example. One of the illusions fans, pundits, and team officials ...

July 23, 1968. The Cincinnati Reds entered the bottom of the ninth inning at old Forbes Field with a 5-3 lead over the home team Pittsburgh Pirates and right-handed submarine bullpen ace Ted Abernathy ...

Having previously touched on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ spring training competition for the starting second baseman, recent reports suggest the favorites are Nick Gonzales and Liover Peguero. Gonzales, ...