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December 3rd, 2007

D.C. Dukes

Did you hear something? I think it was the other shoe dropping.
On Saturday, outfielder Elijah Dukes got into a little brouhaha during a Dominican Republic game; on Monday the Tampa Bay Devil Rays traded Dukes to the Washington Nationals for minor-league left-hander Glenn Gibson.
The Nats are in a good position to take on high-risk, high-reward […]

By Geoff Young -- 0 comments

December 1st, 2007

Dukes in Trouble Again?

The St. Petersburg Times reports that Tampa Bay Devil Rays outfielder Elijah Dukes was tossed out of a game in the Dominican Republic for an incident with an umpire.
Dukes reacted angrily after being called out on strikes in the ninth inning and was ejected after going chest-to-chest with the umpire, and had to be restrained […]

By Geoff Young -- 2 comments

November 29th, 2007

Kennedy Dies at 28

Apologies for the delay in posting this; I was on vacation and heard about it but I had no Internet access. Left-hander Joe Kennedy died November 23 near Tampa at age 28. Kennedy, a native of San Diego, had been an eighth-round pick of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998. In addition to the […]

By Geoff Young -- 0 comments

November 28th, 2007

Devil Rays Ship Young to Minnesota

ESPN reports that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have traded outfielder Delmon Young, infielder Brendan Harris, and minor-league reliever Eduardo Morlan to the Minnesota Twins for right-hander Matt Garza, shortstop Jason Bartlett, and minor-league outfielder Jason Pridie.
Headed to Minnesota

By Geoff Young -- 2 comments

November 18th, 2007

Parsing Maddon

This is a tough time of the year to write about baseball, so I love when people say things that don’t make a lot of sense. The great thing is, you can almost always count on someone to come through in the clutch.
Enter Tampa Bay Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon, talking about the fact that […]

By Geoff Young -- 0 comments

September 2nd, 2007

Who Told Pena He Could Hit?

There are a lot of fun stories this year in baseball: Josh Hamilton, Jack Cust, Rick Ankiel. How about YALHH (yet another left-handed hitter), Carlos Pena?
Pena, in case you missed it, ranks second in the American League with 33 homers through September 1. This is a guy who hit 23 home runs all last year […]

By Geoff Young -- 1 comment