Wade Davis News

There aren't many quality catchers in baseball. There are certainly more capable pitchers around.

Somewhat lost in Friday's bench-clearing, finger-pointing, ninth-inning dustup between the Rays and the Red Sox was the job Jake McGee did in the sixth and seventh innings to nip a Boston rally and send whatever momentum the Red Sox gained in a two-run sixth inning back to Tampa Bay.

Finally an off day and a chance to reflect on the season so far before heading to Boston to take on the Red Sox .

Pena, batting leadoff to start a game for the first time in his big-league career, finished 2-for-5 with a long three-run home run, as Tampa Bay downed Toronto, 8-5, in the middle contest of a three-game set.

The Blue Jays kick off what could very well be their toughest 12-game stretch until the summer tonight against the Rays, so I brought in Robbie Knopf, editor of FanSided's great Rays site Rays Colored Glasses , for a couple of questions before tonight's series opener at Tropicana Field.

Jeff Niemann is out 4-6 weeks with a fractured right leg, but rather than shift Wade Davis back to the rotation the Rays are turning to Alex Cobb as the fill-in. No official announcement has been made yet, but Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports that Cobb will pitch in Niemann's place tomorrow versus the Braves.

Red Sox top Rays Fans chase a fifth-inning foul ball by Tampa Bay Rays' Sean Rodriguez in a game against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday in St.

Alex Cobb, who pitched well for the Rays in 2011, is a candidate to fill in for the injured Jeff Nieman.

When Jeff Niemann stayed in the game to face, and retire, another batter Monday after being hit on the right leg by a batted ball in the first inning Monday, the Rays figured the big right-hander was fine.

For years, there were no major league franchises in the state of Florida, widely renowned as a baseball hotbed.

The Tampa Bay Rays gave a guaranteed $14M to Matt Moore this off season despite the fact that he had only one career start and 9.1 regular season innings under his Major League belt.

Just before the 2011 season, the Rays signed right-hander Wade Davis to a 4-year extension worth $9,534,100 with three team options that could extend the deal to 7 years and $34,534,100. At the time it looked like a typical Rays deal where they signed a promising young player long-term at an extremely team friendly rate.

LHP Jake McGee didn't get too wrapped up in the impressive numbers from his 2-inning relief outing that factored in Thursday's 4-3 win, retiring seven consecutive batters on only 29 pitches.

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Mike Gonzalez is expected to sign his next contract soon, according to his agent, Scott Boras.A A week ago Boras told reporters that Gonzalez would likely sign "in the next 10 days".A Nothing significant has been reported since regarding Gonzalez, but yesterday Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com speculated that the Tampa Bay Rays could be a potential ... (more)

The Rays received another dose of walk-off magic Monday night, ending April on a high note as they beat the Mariners, 3-2, in 12 innings before a Tropicana Field crowd of 9,458. In Tampa Bay's first extra-inning game of the season, Elliot Johnson knocked an RBI single to left field against Mariners closer Brandon League to score Ben Zobrist.

LHP David Price has accomplished a lot in his young career, including two All-Star selections and a second-place finish in the AL Cy Young Award voting.

ARLINGTON, Texas - Evan Longoria homered and drove in four runs to help the Tampa Bay Rays extend their winning streak to six games with an 8-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday night.