DRaysBay Jan 18, 2021
Five Rays prospects in Baseball America’s top 100
David Richard-USA TODAY Sports The new guy slots in to the top 25 overall With the 2021 baseball season hopefully set to commence in just a month’s time, Baseball America has released their top 100 prospects entering the new campaign, with five players from the Rays organization included among them. 1. Wander Franco, SS (2020 ranking: 1)17. Randy Arozarena, OF (2020 ranking: not ranked)23. Luis Patino, RHP (2020 ranking: 18)56. Vidal Brujan, INF (2020 ranking: 51)100. Shane McClanahan, LHP (2020 ranking: 83) Although they still boast a very impressive farm system, the...
DRaysBay Jan 6, 2021
The 20 most-read articles of 2020 at DRaysBay
Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Randy Arozarena is featured heavily on this list. This was a special Rays season and an incredible year at DRaysBay, despite the pandemic and lack of games we published some really great work. Honorable Mentions Before we get to the top 20 articles, which is a listing of our top articles overall, here are a couple others that popped this last year on google searches. Wander Franco shows major league stuff in spring training outing - Baseball’s top prospect will always be search worthy Rays trade Nate Lowe to Texas Rangers for...
DRaysBay Dec 21, 2020
View from the Catwalk: ZiPS projections and Wacha signing
Photo by Maxx Wolfson/ Tampa Bay News ZiPS projections for the Rays are now available! For newbies, ZiPS is the projection system created by Dan Szymborski and published on FanGraphs. His write-up of the roster is always interesting, and it’s fun to see who he projects to have a good year. ZiPS doesn’t, shockingly, think Randy Arozarena will be the next Ted Williams, although Randy is projected to have a strong season. We will all be very happy if Brandon Lowe and Austin Meadows end up close to these numbers. Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow, not surprisingly, top the...
