Tampa Bay Rays news and links: A New Year and the End of the Holiday Doldrums
Time to re-ignite that Hot Stove!
Happy New Year everyone! Hope the holidays have treated you well. Now that we are officially in 2018, and through the post Christmas pre-New Years doldrums of the MLB offseason, we can finally (hopefully) get that hot stove heated up again.
In the meantime, check out MLB.com’s top Rays moments from 2017.
- The Cut4 crew have their one reason for every team to be excited for 2018, including for the Rays the upcoming debut by a certain Screwball hurling prospect.
- MLBTradeRumors takes an inventory of the Rays.
- Bill Chastain has another Q&A Mailbag, including some questions about the return of Duffy and emerging Blake Snell.
- Shane Tourtellotte at Hardball Times has an entertaining read on a dive down the rabbit hole of rules and justifications in the scoring of Holds and Saves.