Grant Balfour might not have had his best season in 2009, but it was profitable. ...more

December 14, 2009

Dioner Navarro was one of three Rays to agree to one-year contracts Saturday and thus avoided arbitration. ...more

December 13, 2009

There were possibilities elsewhere, but Derek Shelton said he couldn't pass on the chance to coach a Tampa Bay Rays lineup that led the majors in stolen bases and set club records for home runs, walks and runs this season. ...more

October 22, 2009

Scott Kazmir's ERA the past two games vs. the Yankees and Royals. Prior to those games his ERA was 6.69. ...more

August 4, 2009

Dale Thayer had just completed his warm-up tosses before the seventh inning when Joe Maddon came to the mound to make a pitching change. His team had just scored four times and he wanted Grant Balfour to take the ball for the bottom half. ...more

July 25, 2009

Evan Longoria trailed Derek Jeter by a mere 570 votes last week when the first round of American League All-Star Game vote totals were announced, but the Rays' third baseman has surged ahead in a week in which he didn't play a game at home. ...more

June 2, 2009

2 Walk-off wins in past week by Rays, who were 0-17 when trailing after seven innings before last Friday. ...more

May 22, 2009

This oft-overlooked area was a huge factor in the Rays' leap to prominence in 2008. Though the statistically inclined have made a significant effort in recent years to come up with metrics able to quantify the defensive performance of players and teams, no one system has emerged as the standard. Because of that, judgment of defensive effectiveness remains perhaps the most subjective facet of the game. ...more

April 2, 2009

This oft-overlooked area was a huge factor in the Rays' leap to prominence in 2008. ...more

April 1, 2009

The AL East doesn't have quite the array of star power on the offensive end that it does when it comes to pitching, but there is no shortage of impact hitters among the top three teams. ...more

March 31, 2009