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Series Preview: Cleveland Indians at Tampa Bay Rays

Merritt Rohlfing — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:32 +0000

So maybe a trip north of the border wasn’t what the Cleveland Indians needed to get back on track. The Tribe scored 10 runs in three games, nine of those in an 11-9 loss on Saturday. The pitching and offense just weren’t clicking at the same time. However, the Kansas City Royals losing to the Chicago White Sox on Sunday is the real body blow. The Indians head to St. Petersburg (Florida, not Russia) to face the Tampa Bay Rays in third place in the AL Central, four games behind the Sox and half a game behind Detroit. These tours through the AL East, even when you skip the Northeast juggernauts, can get tough and going from Toronto to Tampa Bay won’t get much easier.

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Opposition Research: Bradley Woodrum Talks Tampa Bay Rays

Lewie Pollis — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:51:54 +0000

The Tampa Bay ~~Devil~~ Rays come to town tonight to kick a four-game series. This is the first time we’ve seen the Rays this year, so I talked to Bradley Woodrum, one of the several fantastic writers (including our own Steve Kinsella) on the great DRaysBay blog, about what to expect from Tampa Bay. In addition to his work there, Bradley is the creative genius behind the “Luck Dragon” sabermetric tutorial videos and the inventor of Fielding Independent Offense, the basis of our Simple WAR Calculator v. 1.1. (more…)

Series Preview: Cleveland Indians vs. Tampa Bay Rays

Brian Heise — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:51:50 +0000

The Indians are rolling again. In fact, over the past week they’ve looked nothing like the team that struggled throughout most of June. They look more like the team that got off to a hot start to begin the 2012 season. It’s an interesting turn of events for a season that’s been full of twists and turns.

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