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Rays Index (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
The Rays have five players that are arbitration-eligible: Dioner Navarro , Jason Bartlett , Gabe Gross , Grant Balfour , Willy Aybar . The Rays will have until January 19 to reach an agreement with each of these players prior to filing arbitration numbers. The Rays have a strict "file-and-go" policy. Once arbitration numbers have been filed, they will no longer negotiate with a player. The Rays have...
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Rays Index (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
Marc Topkin is reporting that Jonny Gomes has been non-tendered by the Rays and is now a free agent. The Rays did offer arbitration to the remaining five players that were arbitration-eligible ( Willy Aybar, Grant Balfour, Jason Bartlett, Gabe Gross, Dioner Navarro ). With the Rays offering Gross arbitration, it suggests that there is at least a possibility that Matt Joyce will begin the season in...
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Gabe Gross v. Matt Joyce. I like them both, but there's a question about whether Joyce is an immediate upgrade. Short answer: yes. ( Ed: I've switched to using the WRAA number provided by FanGraphs, it's the same as what I've been doing, only using FanGraph's official league average wOBA, rather than the one StatCorner or otherwise uses. Hence why some of the numbers are going to be a bit smaller than...
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
BABIP OPS April 0.239 0.553 May 0.31 0.838 June 0.318 0.868 July 0.063 0.379 August 0.321 0.91 September 0.271 0.716
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Baseball Happenings by David Bloom (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
Jayson Stark:”Gabe Gross is the first player to drive in two runs on zero hits in a World Series game since Manny Ramirez did it in Game 6 in 1997. “
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Baseball Happenings by David Bloom (Free subscription) | 10/26/2008
The game 3 of the world series in Philadelphia is about to get underway after a rain delay. Steve Carlton throws out the first pitch. Jamie Moyer takes the hill, facing Matt Garza the ALCS MVP. The Rays lineup takes its usual look for facing lefties , with Gabe Gross inserted into RF. Top 1st: Aki leads [...]
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Baseball Prospectus: Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
John Perrotto detailed the lineup changes for tonight’s Game Two. Just to take a look at them in a bit more detail… If you combine the use of Rocco Baldelli tonight with the use of Ben Zobrist yesterday, you can conclude that Gabe Gross is something of an unperson now. Joe Maddon doesn’t seem to want [...]
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Brew Crew Ball (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
The Brewers fan in me is rooting for the Rays, since they are not only the team most similar to the Crew, but they're also the team with ex-Brewers in prominent (well, sort of prominent) roles. Gabe Gross managed to hang on to his roster spot by a thread. But...it would be kind of cool if the Phillies won, both because the NL sucks so bad, and because they're the team that beat us. We could claim...
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Rays Index (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Click on above images to be taken to full standings, box scores or schedule... Online Surveys & Market Research Just the links for now...the "Pepper" post for games 1 and 2 will be up in a little bit. DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA ... Ben Zobrist will get the start in RF tonight over Gabe Gross . [ The Heater ] Marc Topkin is reporting that the Rays' roster is official and it is the same as the ALCS. No Eric...
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Bluebird Banter (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
I thought before tonight's game we should look at who we have left to cheer for in the series. On the Rays only former Jays on the roster are Trever Miller, who was a reliever for us in 2003 and Gabe Gross, who was a first round draft choice for the Jays in the 2001 amateur draft and was a part-timer for us in 2004 and 2005 before being traded to the Brewers with David Bush and Zack Jackson for Lyle...
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
Gabe Gross Regular season: 399 PAs, .750 OPS, plus defender. Post-season: 19 PAs, .274 OPS, looks bad lately. Grant Balfour Regular season: 58.3 IP, 3 homeruns allowed. Post-season: 5.6 IP, 2 homeruns allowed. Rays Defense Regular season: .712 DER Post-season: .706 DER (.719 in the ALCS) So yeah, anyone who says our defense has fallen off simply does not know what they're talking about.
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Brew Crew Ball (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
I'm in the mood to make a prediction: Grant Balfour will not make an appearance tonight. If a former Brewer comes up big for the Rays in Game 6, it will have to be Gabe Gross. The matchup is James Shields (good, but lost in Game 1) against Josh Beckett, who had a disastrous start in Game 2. If I were Beckett and the Red Sox, I'd be worried--the Rays are back at home, and they've scored 38 runs in...
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Fenway West (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
1. Akinori Iwamura, 2B 2. B.J. Upton, CF 3. Carlos Pena, 1B 4. Evan Longoria, 3B 5. Carl Crawford, LF 6. Cliff Floyd, DH 7. Dioner Navarro, C 8. Gabe Gross, RF 9. Jason Bartlett, SS James Shields, SP Fenway West- The Western Home to Red Sox Nation http://www.fenwaywest.com
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Royals Review (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Well, I didn't want to watch ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPN News for the next two days anyway... Helluva comeback for the Sawks, but the Rays didn't do themselves any favors either. The top of the 9th was completely botched. Masterton threw, by my count, no good pitches, save for, perhaps, the final pitch to Pena. The 2-1 cookie to Aki, a batting practice fastball, was ruined with a weak protection swing, because...
