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• GDT: Can I get a yeehaw?

  05-04-2025 00:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Come join the conversation! Today’s GDT photo was sourced from this amazing artwork on reddit:
  Is it AI? Not sure I care, it’s a great idea and solid execution.Anyway, check out the series preview here. We are on AppleTV tonight.
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• GDT: Put some PEPiot in your step

  09-04-2025 23:05 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Mark Taylor/Getty Images Join the conversation! The Rays opening day starter lost his last start at The Stein vs Paul Skenes, but this one is under the evening lights!Pepiot takes on Kukuchi at 7:05 pm.
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• Rays 3, Angels 4: Rays beat themselves, drop fifth straight

  09-04-2025 05:19 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Rays unable to get the big hit as they drop 5th straight. The Tampa Bay Rays played host to Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday evening in Tampa as they began a 13-game homestand. Despite their best efforts to overcome Youtuber Zack Hample and the Halos, the Rays fell in the series opener by a score of 4-3.While some on social media might place the blame solely at the feet of Hample, who caught a two-run wall-scraping homer just over the outstretched glove of
  
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• GDT: You telling me an angel’s in this outfield?

  08-04-2025 23:05 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Join the conversation! Shane Baz vs Kyle Hendricks
  
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• Rays Your Voice: The first losing streak of the season

  08-04-2025 22:22 via draysbay.com
  
  Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Who needs to step up?It’s not always going to be sunshine and roses and on this week’s episode we break down what went wrong for the Rays last week. There are some slow starters and while there’s still plenty of time to turn things around, it’s important the Rays do not dig themselves into too big of a hole early on and face the same challenges as last year’s team.Also, Jake Mangum and Kameron Misner have been pleasant surprises in their rol
  
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• Rays announce partnership with Tampa Bay 44 alongside FanDuel Sports Network

  08-04-2025 20:18 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images 15 games will be simulcast on over-the-air station. Via team press release:
  The Tampa Bay Rays, in partnership with FanDuel Sports Network, have announced that Tampa Bay 44, a CBS-owned independent station, will simulcast 15 Rays games on its over-the-air channel during the 2025 season.
  These simulcast games will still be available for fans to watch on FanDuel Sports Network Sun, the FanDuel Sports Network app and FanDuelSportsNetwork.com. Vi
  
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• Rays Reacts Survey: Over/Under for 2025

  07-04-2025 21:38 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Go Rays! Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Tampa Bay Rays fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.
  Please take our survey
  
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• 2025 DRaysBay Community Prospect List: Vote for Honorable Mentions

  07-04-2025 20:49 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Taking a different path to wrapping up 2025’s vote There was muted interest in continuing the annual prospect vote for the 26-30 range this year, and that’s reasonable given the depth and breadth of the Rays talent in the minors.So this year, I’d like to come up with a different approach to rounding out the list.RecsUsually we use a commenting system to vote for players, but in this circumstance, I’m simply asking you to give a thumbs up
  
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• Player of the Series: Brandon Lowe

  07-04-2025 19:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images It’s difficult to choose a player when the team is swept When a team is swept in a three game series, it can be difficult to pick a player that stood out. There were solid pitching performances from all three starting pitchers, with one bad inning wrecking the nights of both Taj Bradley and Zack Littell. Offensive, Jonathan Aranda hit a homerun and provided some great at-bats.However, for these three games, we’ll pick Brandon Lowe as the Rays 3rd Player of t
  
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• Rays Minor League Roundup: Week 2

  07-04-2025 15:59 via draysbay.com
  
  Mickey Welsh / Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images All of the Rays full season minor league teams have begun play This week’s minor league roundup will only feature the numbers accumulated prior to the start of play on Monday.
  The second week of minor league play with the Rays full season minor league teams joining Durham Bulls and have started their regular seasons.According to FanGraphs (which factors in age and proximity to the big leagues), the overall top hitter in the Ray
  
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• TB 3, TEX 4: Rays rally late, but can’t break the Texas Curse

  07-04-2025 00:23 via draysbay.com
  
  Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Rangers maximized every opportunity to squeak out a walkoff The Rays will have to wait a long while longer to get a victory in Arlington, Texas.Whatever is in the water in Texas (and judging by their increasingly poor environmental regulations, probably a LOT of things) the Raangers are able to find just enough, every game, to be able to get by with a W vs the Rays. For years now, the Heart of Texas Lowes that the Rangers call a stadium has been a house of horrors.Today,
  
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• GDT: Rocker and Roll

  06-04-2025 18:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images for NYCWFF Come join the conversation! Did you know: Globe Life Field offers a Teremana Happy Hour — $9.99 margaritas in the Teremana Terrace until first pitch, courtesy of the “Mana Mobile.”
  Nothing like getting blitzed at noon on a Sunday!
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• Rays 4, Rangers 6: Globe Life Woes

  06-04-2025 11:33 via draysbay.com
  
  Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images Rays losing streak at Globe Life Field extends to 8 There were two first inning offerings Taj Bradley wishes he could get back after Marcus Semien and Jake Burger homered to start Saturday night’s contest in Arlington.
  However, if wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean.
  After settling in, Bradley’s next four innings were quite masterful, allowing no hits while striking out seven.
  In the meantime, the Rays fought an uphill battle facing Jacob deGrom
  
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• GDT: Another game at the Spooky Warehouse

  05-04-2025 23:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Come join the conversation!
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• Rays 2 Rangers 5: One bad inning

  05-04-2025 04:48 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images The real problem, from a Rays point of view with tonight’s game had nothing to do with Zach Littell.The real problem was the offense.Coming into this season, I looked at the Rays roster and wondered where the heck the runs would come from.
  They were largely successful in their first two series by being so stingy on the defensive side of the ball that they could get away with not scoring much, but at some point you need to do better than scattering singles.
  
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• Player of the Series: Jake Mangum

  04-04-2025 14:49 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images The Mayor took on The Boss What an Opening Week it was for the Rays rookies.Kameron Misner took this honor for first series of the year and now 29-year old Jake Mangum has been dubbed our Player of the Series for the second series of the year.
  Mangum came to the Rays as part of the return for former top prospect Vidal Brujan. Mangum was a collegiate star, graduating as the all-time hit leader in the SEC. He was then selected by the New York Mets in the 4th round o
  
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• Tropicana Field roof repairs approved by City Council

  03-04-2025 18:13 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Repairs begin in August, with the aim of having a playable field by the 2026 season.The St. Petersburg City Council met this morning and approved cash toward repairs to Tropicana Field’s roof. This vote specifically approved $22.5 million which will be for the fabrication of the roof material in Germany, its transport to China for assembly, and then its installation in St. Pete.
  The city counceilers were in broad agreement that allocati
  
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• Initial Tropicana Field roof repairs approved by City Council for $22.5 million

  03-04-2025 18:13 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Repairs begin in August, with the aim of having a playable field by the 2026 season.The St. Petersburg City Council met this morning and approved cash toward repairs to Tropicana Field’s roof. This vote specifically approved $22.5 million which will be for the fabrication and installation of the roof, and does not include interior repairs.
  The city councilmembers were in broad agreement that allocating the money to repair the roof was n
  
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• Initial Tropicana Field roof repairs approved by City Council

  03-04-2025 18:13 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Repairs begin in August, with the aim of having a playable field by the 2026 season.The St. Petersburg City Council met this morning and approved cash toward repairs to Tropicana Field’s roof. This vote specifically approved $22.5 million which will be for the fabrication and installation of the roof, and does not include interior repairs.
  The city councilmembers were in broad agreement that allocating the money to repair the roof was n
  
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• Rays 2 Pirates 4: There is no shame in getting bested by Paul Skenes

  02-04-2025 22:15 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images It was the top of the first inning and something very strange was happening.A Rays pitcher — in this case Ryan Pepiot — threw four balls to a player, who then took first base.
  This, I’ve been told, is called a “walk,” and we hadn’t seen one from a Rays pitcher since Opening Day, when Pepiot and Pete Fairbanks had give up a total of three.
  It was one sign that, while the Rays pitching was certainly not terrible, we were not look
  
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• Mason Montgomery just threw the fastest pitch in franchise history

  02-04-2025 19:12 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images There are elite fastballs and then there’s Mason Montgomery Mason Montgomery just threw the fastest pitcher in Tampa Bay Rays history.
  At this time last year, Mason Montgomery had just made his first start of the season for the Durham Bulls and it was an utter disaster. The southpaw allowed seven runs on nine hits — two home runs — and was pushed out of the game just two outs into the second inning. He would go on to have some decent performances
  
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• GDT: Get excited for Paul Skenes

  02-04-2025 17:55 via draysbay.com
  
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• Rays 7, Pirates 0: Baz sharp as Rays win third straight

  02-04-2025 04:40 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Rays won their second straight series to open the season behind a strong start by Baz and timely hittingThe Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of 7-0 to secure their second consecutive series win ahead of the series finale tomorrow afternoon.
  Shane Baz made his first start of the season for the Rays and was fantastic, tossing six strong innings. Brandon Lowe and Jake Mangum combined for six hits and five RBIs to lead the way offensively. And
  
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• GDT: Oh my Baz

  02-04-2025 00:05 via draysbay.com
  
  Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Join the conversation! Skenes was going to pitch today, but the Pirates pushed him to tomorrow afternoon.
  
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• Rays 6, Pirates 1: Tropicana East elects a new Mayor

  01-04-2025 15:40 via draysbay.com
  
  Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Rasmussen returns strong and the Rays get contribution from some unlikely sources to beat the Bucs Baseball is a game of unrelenting failure. At the very best, at a Hall of Fame level, you are still failing the majority of the time. That’s the beauty of this game. Much like life, there’s failures, you get knocked down, and when you persevere and find yourself back on your feet, it all makes each moment of success all the more sweet.Moment’s like
  
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• Rays Your Voice: Notes from Opening Weekend

  01-04-2025 14:30 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images There’s a lot to like in this squad.The Rays took two out of three in their opening series against the Colorado Rockies, and there was plenty to talk about from those games on this week’s episode of Rays Your Voice. Josh Lowe’s injury presents an interesting challenge, and it’s up to a number of different players to make up his production. The pitching looks sharp, and this might be one of the deepest bullpens in franchise history.What&rsq
  
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• What are the “Torpedo bats” and why should you care?

  01-04-2025 14:18 via draysbay.com
  
  Kevin Sousa-Imagn Images The big story to start this season is the “torpedo” or “bowling pin” bats which a handful of Yankees have used while hitting a ton of home runs. And it turns out that Giancarlo Stanton was actually using one last postseason when he slugged .709 with seven home runs. At least two Rays players, Junior Caminero and Yandy Diaz, have also begun experimenting with them.
  Junior Caminero normally swings his own model with Cooperstown Bat Co., the JC13M, b
  
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• GDT: Can Cowboy Kameron do it again?

  01-04-2025 00:05 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Misner, I hardly know her! Join the Conversation
  
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• Series Preview: Rays vs Pirates

  31-03-2025 19:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images Three games down, one-hundred fifty-nine to go The 2025 regular season is a weekend old and the Rays will now move on to face the Pittsburgh Pirates in a three game set at George Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.
  Although the Pirates finished last in the National League Central in 2024, there is plenty of reason to hope as they have perhaps the best starting pitcher in all of baseball, Paul Skenes. The talented hurler took the baseball world by storm last season and u
  
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• Player of the Series: Kameron Misner

  31-03-2025 17:00 via draysbay.com
  
  Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images The rookie made history on Opening Day The first series of the year is in the books and it was certainly a memorable Opening Weekend for the Tampa Bay Rays. They played the first ever Major League games in Tampa. There was a flyover and fireworks (although the team did try to have fireworks at the Trop before, it didn’t go well). And there was also a walk-off.
  Enter 27-year old Kameron Misner.
  The Rays originally acquired Misner in November
  
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