Hoisting the South Atlantic League championship banner has become something of a tradition for the Rays' High-A affiliate. The Bowling Green Hot Rods captured its fourth title over the past six seasons with a 4-1 victory over the Hudson Valley Renegades (Yankees) in a winner-take-all Game 3 in the Championship

ST. PETERSBURG -- Rays prospects Tre’ Morgan, Chandler Simpson, Carson Williams, Brayden Taylor and Tanner Murray are having a busy week. They finished the regular season with Double-A Montgomery on Sunday in Pensacola, Fla., before beginning the Southern League postseason with a convincing 9-2 victory over Biloxi on the road

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The Rays earned the top spot in MLB Pipeline’s midseason farm system rankings, and Carson Williams and Brayden Taylor had a lot to do with that. Now, the Rays No. 1 and No. 3 prospects, respectively, also share a distinction: they’re both members of the 20/20 club. Williams, MLB's No.

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Chandler Simpson has run straight into the record books. The Rays' No. 5 prospect became the first Minor or Major League player since 2012 to reach 100 stolen bases in a season on Sunday -- and he didn't need long to do it. In the bottom of the first inning

Each week, MiLB.com profiles an elite prospect by chronicling the steps he's taken toward achieving his Major League dream. Here's a look at third-ranked Rays prospect Xavier Isaac. For more stories about players on The Road to The Show, click here. The Rays recently unseated the Orioles atop the latest

ST. PETERSBURG -- On Friday night, between their long-awaited reunion on a big league field and their postgame jersey exchange, Junior Caminero and Manny Machado shared a moment near third base. Machado had just ripped a three-run homer out to center field, one of many big hits during the Padres’

ST. PETERSBURG -- Junior Caminero could hardly keep the smile off his face or the emotion out of his words. About a decade after meeting one of his baseball idols, one of the reasons he now wears a No. 13 jersey for the Rays, baseball’s top prospect got to share

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays were getting their work in on the field at Rogers Centre in Toronto last Sept. 30, preparing for the penultimate game of the regular season, their postseason future already secure and nothing particularly meaningful on the line in the hours ahead. It was a batting

All farm systems, whether they’re at the top or the bottom of organizational rankings, have differing strengths. We’ve decided to dig deeper into a few of those talent buckets over the next few weeks. This week, we’ll take a look at the top farm systems based on infield prospects. Using

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LOS ANGELES -- On the Rays’ last day in Oakland, manager Kevin Cash offered some big league advice for top prospect Junior Caminero. If he got his hair cut, he’d get more hits. Sure enough, Caminero arrived at Dodger Stadium on Friday with a little less hair sticking out of

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ST. PETERSBURG -- Junior Caminero's first call to the big leagues came as a complete surprise. He had just finished the season with Double-A Montgomery last September and was mentally set on heading home to the Dominican Republic when he was summoned to Tropicana Field instead. Caminero said he wasn’t

ST. PETERSBURG -- At the start of August, the Rays’ Major League roster looked a lot different than it did a month before. So did the list of their top prospects in the Minor Leagues. Continuing to hover around .500, Tampa Bay pulled off a series of trades throughout July

ST. PETERSBURG -- After making his Major League debut unexpectedly early last September, Junior Caminero reported to Spring Training willing to go wherever the Rays sent him. He hoped then to crack Tampa Bay’s Opening Day roster, although he understood as well as anyone that he had jumped straight from

Welcome to Crooked Numbers, a monthly column dedicated to Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. The edition, rounding up the month of July, features intra-organizational no-nos, wild romps, unexpected mound dominance and, of course, much more. Keeping track of this type of thing is a team effort, so get

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays made a handful of difficult decisions prioritizing the future over the present this weekend, removing key players from their big league roster while revitalizing their farm system with an influx of young talent. On Friday, they dealt star outfielder Randy Arozarena to the Mariners and