Dewon Brazelton News

The Tampa Bay Rays are fortunate as they own arguably two of the best contracts in baseball in Evan Longoria and Matt Moore .

The loss of center fielder Rocco Baldelli certainly hurts the Devil Rays' chances of making any movement in the division.

Jonah Keri is a good writer. I've enjoyed his stuff for years and was intrigued by his announcement that he'd be publishing a book on the Tampa Bay Rays .

Ten years ago, the draft class of 2001 yielded stars who still burn brightly in the big leagues such as Joe Mauer , Mark Teixeira , David Wright , Dan Haren , Ryan Howard and Kevin Youkilis .

Brazelton is the first Blue Raider to be selected in the first round. There was talk that Brazelton would be the first pick in the draft, but the Minnesota Twins chose Joe Mauer, a high school catcher from Minnesota, first.