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Maddon’s Defense of Peralta Shifts Blame, but Is It Out of Bounds?

Posted in Baseball, Interleague, MLB, tagged , , on June 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »

It’s not cheating if everyone is doing it, right? Tampa Bay Rays’ manager Joe Maddon seems to think so. At least that’s what the unorthodox manager implied when he defended reliever Joel Peralta, who was ejected from last night’s game because he had what home plate umpire Tim Tschida called a “significant amount” of pine […]

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Are the Rays for Real? Shedding Light on Tampa’s Hot Start

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged , on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Tampa Rays will take the field tonight at Yankee Stadium tied for the best record in baseball, but they aren’t winning the way most people expected. Because of the perceived depth in its rotation, the Rays’ main strength in 2012 was supposed to be its starters. However, the team’s early success has not been […]

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Advantage Rays as Maddon and Girardi Match Wits in Opening Series

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , on April 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The first two games of the Yankees’ season-opening series against the Rays have played out like the American League Championship Series. There has been so much unorthodox strategy employed, it’s almost as if the two managers are working backwards from the end of the year instead of easing into the start. On one side, Rays’ […]

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Overshadowed by Payroll, Girardi Again Gets Little MoY Recognition

Posted in Awards, Baseball, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , , , on November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Joe Maddon and Kirk Gibson were named the AL and NL managers of the year, and, all things considered, they were probably the most deserving candidates for the award. Both managers overcame diminished pre-season expectations and led their relatively young teams to the playoffs, so it’s hard to argue with either selection, especially when you […]

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