From now until Opening Day, we will be running our Who’s In? Who’s Out? feature to try and break down what the Rays’ 25-man roster is going to be heading into the regular season. In general, this year is going to be a lot easier to handicap than last year.
Another week, and another set of absolutely zero changes. The first week of Spring Training games is actually kind of boring.
See more after the jump.
| Pos |
Name |
Notes |
| SP |
James Shields |
I can’t wait to see Big Game James take the hill. |
| SP |
Matt Garza |
Played the demo of MLB 2k9 last night, and saw the dude sitting in the dugout. Looked just like him. |
| SP |
Scott Kazmir |
Over/under on innings pitched is at 185. Where you at? |
| SP |
Andy Sonnanstine |
I still don’t see why everyone thinks he’s a future relief pitcher. What has he ever done to prove he would make that transition other than give up lots of home runs? |
| SP |
Jeff Niemann |
Looked pretty good in 2 innings against the Red Sox on Friday. I’ll take it. |
| RP |
Troy Percival |
Now he says he’s ahead of schedule. Hmm… |
| RP |
Grant Balfour |
(Insert witty Australian joke here) |
| RP |
Dan Wheeler |
For those of you who think every reliever needs a role, does Wheeler actually have one? |
| RP |
Brian Shouse |
LOOGY is a funny word, isn’t it? |
| RP |
Jason Hammel
|
Another guy who looked good this week. Definitely looked better than Mitch Talbot, Part 1. |
| RP |
Joe Nelson |
Not to be confused with Jeff Nelson, who looked like he was having a seizure during his delivery. |
| RP |
J.P. Howell |
Go Team USA! |
| C |
Dioner Navarro |
He would have to put up BETTER number than last year for this one to be considered a success, right? |
| 1B |
Carlos Pena |
Note to self: don’t put money in Stanford Financial. |
| 2B |
Aki Iwamura |
Between him and Ichiro, there’s an awful lot of cool on Team Japan. |
| 3B |
Evan Longoria |
<3 <3 <3 |
| SS |
Jason Bartlett |
I love our all-glove, no-hit shortstop. |
| LF |
Carl Crawford |
Think about how good this lineup could be if Carl is back to his old self this year. |
| CF |
B.J. Upton |
See Crawford, Carl. |
| RF |
Gabe Gross |
Line drives right at you are overrated. |
| DH |
Pat Burrell |
Pat the Bat faces his old mates today. Kind of. It won’t be anything like the series in June. |
| C |
Shawn Riggans |
BREAKING NEWS! Riggans cuts finger while using a butter knife. Season might be over.**Note – This isn’t really breaking news. It’s just a parody of something that could happen to him. |
| IF |
Ben Zobrist |
I can’t get over how young dude looks. I saw some of his wedding photos on his wife’s Myspace page. He’s looks like he’s 9. |
| IF |
Willy Aybar |
Getting plenty of PT early on here in the Spring. |
| OF |
Gabe Kapler |
High socks = MONEY. |
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February 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
RP Grant Balfour (Insert witty Australian joke here) What was the Australian sheep farmers wife’s name
Ans:
Baarrr Bara
March 1st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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March 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
RP Grant Balfour (Insert witty Australian joke here): That’s not a strike zone, (pulls out wicked big strike zone) THIS is a strike zone…