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Report: Tampa Bay Rays Have Contacted Designated Hitter Jim Thome

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Published Jan. 17, 2010 at 4:35 p.m.
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More photos » ... Mike Carlson - AP ... Browse more photos » ... The Rays have always said they're open to anything. This would qualify as anything ... Jim Thome turns 40 in late-August and bats lefty while spending time with the White Sox and Dodgers. There's no need to overstate this: he's a hitter. Either as a DH or substitute bat, Thome goes as his bat does. Despite his age, he can still hit.  Over the last three seasons has posted wOBA of .367, .370, and .410 while playing nearly

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Defending Pat Burrell's Decade Value

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Published Dec. 24, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
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More photos » ... by Brian Blanco - AP ... Browse more photos » ... We don't do this often, but sometimes I feel like some of these things need to be addressed. I've always said at DRaysBay we cover the Rays and not the media surrounding them. However, the Rays aren't doing much right now and some of these statements are a bit egregious ... First, we had Ken Rosenthal saying the Rays (along with the Blue Jays and Orioles) should just give up on 2010 because, in his opinion, the Yankees and

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Taking Things For Granted

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Published Sept. 15, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.  We all know the famous saying, but does it hold true when talking about baseball?  ...   ... The (Devil) Rays were a putrid team for their first 10 years in existence.  Then 2008 comes around and things change.  The team starts to win.  The fan base grows.  The fruits of continually having high draft picks combined with a new, shrewd, Front Office begin to show.  The Tampa Bay area falls in love with baseball.  The

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I'm Done: JScott says goodbye to SB*Nation and Buc 'Em

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Published June 12, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.
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My last post: ... When I went to SB*Nation two and half years ago to see if I could start a Bucs Blog on their platform I had no idea of the responsibility that came with such a request. Early on you had to know HTML code in order to function for SB*Nation and for a person who had no experience in HTML it was a struggle, but a fun struggle. I remember at one point I had stripped the site of all of its color accidentally while working behind the scenes, luckily for me the Tech guys reversed my

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