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Rays think they can figure in playoffs if they stay healthy

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Here at the beginning, the Tampa Bay Rays feel confident they will be there at the end. General manager Matt Silverman and manager Kevin Cash agreed Thursday that, going into the season, the Rays’ goal is to reach the post-season. An improved lineup and a solid set of starting pitchers have more strengths than the bullpen has questions. “I feel like we’re a better club,” Silverman said. “You look year after year, at the talent on the club. With the…

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Ranking the newcomers to the Tampa Bay Rays for 2015

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The hope is that they all are wonderful. All-Stars. Impact players. Alas, baseball doesn’t work that way. In baseball, there will be some players who bounce back from last season’s problems and others who repeat them. If it’s up to the Tampa Bay Rays, however, which of their six newcomers would they prefer to have a good season. 1. Shortstop Brad Miller: A year ago, when the Rays looked at Asdrubal Cabrera, manager Kevin Cash stressed the team merely needed…

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Could Rays become Team Snowbird with 2 homes?

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And now, for the worst idea ever. How about the Tampa Bay-Montreal Rays, a baseball team that would supposedly speak French, English and Southern? Such is the idea of Francois Cardinal, who writes for La Presse in Montreal. The article was picked up the Tampa Bay Times. It suggests that the Rays play half of their games in Tampa Bay and the other half in Montreal. Even for Kevin Kiermaier, that’s a lot of ground to cover. Cardinal writes that…

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Can you afford to continue to be a Tampa Bay area sports fan?

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The price of watching sports in Tampa Bay area is going up. The Tampa Bay Lightning announced increases in their ticket prices Thursday as much as 10.5 percent. The Lightning currently has the lowest-priced tickets in the NHL at an average cost of $49.33. Team Marketing Report’s Fan Cost Index cites the Lightning as the third most affordable NHL experience for a family of four to attend and ESPN the Magazine recently ranked the Lightning third in professional sports and…

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Spring training approaches for reconstructed Tampa Bay Rays

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Can Corey Dickerson hit away from Coors Field? Is Brad Miller really an everyday shortstop? Will Steve Pearce really add some pop to the offense? The Tampa Bay Rays begin to find out the answers to these, and a couple of dozen other questions, when they open spring training (to 38 pitchers and catchers) in 10 days. It will be the team’s 19th spring, and its eighth in Charlotte County. Last season, the Rays finished 80-82, but this year, there…

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Could the offense of the Rays be better with Corey Dickerson?

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In years past, you wondered if their bats were big enough. There was an impotence to the offense of the Tampa Bay Rays. They were never going to score enough runs, and good pitching was always going to let them down. The last two months of last season were an aberration. Often, you simply couldn’t count on the Rays scoring enough. Could that be changing with this off-season? Maybe. The Rays have brought in Corey Dickerson, a career .299 hitter,…

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Rays trade for yet another outfielder in Corey Dickerson

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The crowded outfield of the Tampa Bay Rays got a little more packed Thursday afternoon when the team traded for Colorado outfielder Corey Dickerson. It added one more bat – a promising one, judging by Dickerson’s production so far in his young career – to an outfield that already has promise. There is Kevin Kiermaier, the reigning gold-glove center fielder. And Steven Souza Jr., who showed promise although he didn’t hit for much average. There is Desmond Jennings, who was…

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