13 October 2010, 1:40 pm
Last night the Tampa Bay Rays became the fourth team to be eliminated in the 2010 post-season. The Rays were defeated in 5 games by the AL West Champions, the Texas Rangers. The Rays had finished this season as the AL East Champions, with the best record in the American League at 96-66 (.593). The Rays are historically a bad team, but recently have improved a great deal. Since starting in 1998, the franchise has a losing record of 922 wins and 1,181 losses. The Rays been to the playoffs twice and won the American League pennant in 2008 (after which they were beaten in the World Series by the Phillies in 5 games). After 10 consecutive losing seasons as the Devil Rays, the rebranded Tampa Bay Rays have had winning records for the past three seasons. Facts about this year: First game of season: Defeated the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 (April 6) Worst Loss of season: Beaten by the New York Yankees 0-10 (April 10) Best Victories of season: Defeated the Chicago White Sox 12-0 (April 21) & Defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 13-1 (September 11) TRADES: - The Rays traded IF Akinori Iwamura (.270) to the Pittsburgh Pirates for RP Jesse Chavez (4.74 ERA) - The Rays traded RP Jesse Chavez (4.74 ERA) to the Atlanta Braves for RP Rafael Soriano (2.73 ERA) - The Rays traded P Mitch Talbot (4.79 ERA) to the Cleveland Indians for C Kelly Shoppach (.234) - The Rays traded a player to be named to the Arizona Diamondbacks for RP Chad Qualls (3.76 ERA) SEASON STATS: The Rays won 11 and lost 7 against the Baltimore Orioles The Rays won 11 and lost 7 against the Boston Red Sox The Rays won 10 and lost 8 against the New York Yankees The Rays won 10 and lost 8 against the Toronto Blue Jays Best Rays batting average: LF Carl Crawford (.307 average) Most Rays home runs: 1B Carlos Pena (28 home runs) Most Rays RBI: 3B Evan Longoria (104 RBI) Most Rays wins: SP David Price (19 wins-6 losses, tied for second most wins in AL) Best Rays ERA: SP David Price (2.72 ERA, 3rd best ERA in AL) Most Rays saves: RP Rafael Soriano (45 saves, most in AL) Tampa Bay Rays team batting average = .247 (the 2nd worst average in AL) Tampa Bay Rays team ERA: 3.78 Tampa Bay Rays fielding percentage = .986 What are your thoughts on the Tampa Bay Rays? What do you have to say about the season, the players, the management, next year, etc? http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBD/ http://mlb.mlb.com/schedule/sortable.jsp?c_id=tb http://espn.go.com/mlb/statistics... Read More »
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