So far the Devil Rays have experienced only futility in baseball's most difficult division. Playing 19 games a year against the Yankees and Red Sox makes life difficult for the team's young players, but still the amount of raw talent on the D-Rays matches that of any team. It is just a matter of that talent refining. Rocco Baldelli, Carl Crawford and Delmon Young should soon form the greatest outfield in baseball, and Aubrey Huff is already one of the best hitters in baseball.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Outfielder Rocco Baldelli is not an original member of the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays but his name has become synonymous with their coming of age. ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:17:55 GMTWhen Joe Maddon first came onto the scene in November 2005, after spending three decades scouting, coaching and managing in the minor leagues, the unconventional manager of the team then known as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, reminded me of Drew Carey — pudgy-faced with red hair, an off-the-wall number on his jersey for a big-league manager, 70, and, of course, what is now his trademark horn-rimmed ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:33:29 GMTA mohawk haircut has become the signature 'do for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays players and fans. But it got Zachary Sharples in trouble at school.
Publ.Date : Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:19:46 GMTST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In those dark days, Tropicana Field was so empty, the sounds of batting practice were indistinguishable from those of the game, and so, too, were the trajectories of the visiting team's line drives and towering fly balls, once the batting practice pitchers ceded the mound to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' finest arms. In those dark days, the bullies lined up nightly to ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:28:51 GMTHey, didn't you use to be the Tampa Bay Devil Rays? Didn't you used to lose in the dingy Tropicana Dome, with its ugly green carpet, in front of a smattering of fans?
Publ.Date : Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:14:13 GMT
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