As Rays manager Joe Maddon dissected his team's 9-8 loss Saturday, he didn't even bother to mention the walk-off home run by Ryan Ludwick that put the Cardinals over the top. ...more

May 18, 2008

It's understood that Akinori Iwamura is not the prototypical leadoff man. ...more

May 11, 2008

As far as Eric Hinske knows, his greatest sin toward the people of this fine city was not living up to the hype from his Rookie of the Year season in 2002. ...more

May 7, 2008

The Rays will open spring training about a month from now with what appears to be the strongest team of Joe Maddon's tenure in Tampa Bay, if not the history of the franchise. ...more

January 13, 2008

This column should come with a warning. It is about Rays baseball and it does not focus on how good things are going to be three or four years from now. We won't speculate about how bad things are going to be this season, which has been an annual rite of spring for more than a decade. ...more

January 13, 2008

In a roundabout way, the season Hideki Okajima put together as a 31-year-old rookie for Boston could make Tampa Bay's quest to shore up its bullpen that much more difficult. ...more

November 8, 2007

Five months after beginning a new phase in his career, Devil Rays 3B Akinori Iwamura finally felt he had arrived Sunday. ...more

September 3, 2007