This story was excerpted from Adam Berry's Rays Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. TORONTO -- Ever since he was a kid, growing up playing baseball in Tijuana, Jonathan Aranda has had a reputation. “He was always a

TORONTO -- Josh Lowe could have come off the injured list on Tuesday night, rejoining the Rays' lineup for their series opener against the Blue Jays. Considering the frustration he felt when he went down with a right oblique strain on Opening Day, the time he missed and Tampa Bay’s

Jim Callis officially ushered in mock draft season a little over a week ago. Now it’s my turn to take the wheel for the first time this spring. While we still have a long way to go and there’s a ton of uncertainty from top to bottom of this first

TORONTO -- For Ryan Pepiot, the Rays’ 3-1 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday night at Rogers Centre came down to one pitch. One fastball. One mistake. Pepiot continued to pitch well overall, putting together his fifth quality start of the season and his fourth in his past five

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Talk to any scout and they’ll tell you some version of this axiom: Big leaguers come from everywhere. What that means is that for every Paul Skenes (No. 1 overall pick in 2023) or Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ($3.9 million bonus in July 2015), there can also be a Tarik Skubal

TORONTO -- During the final series of the 2023 season, only a week into his Major League career, Junior Caminero put on a pregame batting practice display he still remembers. He bashed ball after ball off the upper-deck facing in left field, a show of power so jaw-dropping that it

TORONTO -- The Rays will be without one of their top hitters against the Blue Jays, as they placed designated hitter Yandy Díaz on the restricted list prior to Tuesday night’s 11-9 win in the series opener at Rogers Centre.

With more than six weeks of the Minor League season in the books, the sample sizes are swelling, and trends are beginning to emerge. It's time to start taking stock, which is what MLB Pipeline's recent market-corrected Top 100 Prospects list shakeup is all about. With that in mind, the

There are certain players who show up to the ballpark every day with a pretty good idea -- if not a total certainty -- of where they’ll bat and what position they’ll play. Then there are players for whom those options are seemingly limitless. These players bring multiple gloves to

The Astros found themselves with an unprecedented advantage in the 2015 Draft. Because they failed to sign No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken the year before, they received the No. 2 choice as compensation. And after posting the fourth-worst MLB record in 2014, they also garnered the No. 5 selection.

TAMPA -- Evan Longoria never really got a chance to say goodbye as a player. He didn’t know that his last game with the Rays would come on Oct. 1, 2017, before they traded him to the Giants that December. He didn’t embark on a farewell tour with the D-backs

TAMPA -- Rays manager Kevin Cash, assessing his team at the season’s 40-game mark, made a simple declarative statement that also sounded like a cry for help. “We’ve got to find a way to score more runs.’’

This year, graduation day arrived on May 11. That's when prospects who began the 2025 season on Major League Opening Day rosters exceeded 45 days of service time and exhausted their rookie eligibility/prospect status. Around here, we say that's when they graduate from prospectdom. This year, three Top 100 prospects

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TAMPA -- Saturday afternoon began with the threat of rain, turning the inevitable into a reality at George M. Steinbrenner Field: the first official home weather delay in Rays history. The rain eventually came, forcing the Rays and Brewers off the field for 38 minutes during the fifth inning and

TAMPA -- It had been 20 days since postgame fireworks exploded over left field at George M. Steinbrenner Field, an increasingly infrequent sight as the Rays lost seven straight games and 11 of their last 12 at their temporary home ballpark. They were agonizingly close to snapping that skid against

TAMPA -- The Rays had their home losing streak on the brink Thursday night, entering the eighth inning with a four-run lead over the Phillies and two of their top late-inning arms ready to close it out. They wound up leaving George M. Steinbrenner Field with one of their most

So many seasons depend on whether a team’s talented young hitters can reach their potential. It doesn’t always happen, but when players can adjust to the Major Leagues and find their footing offensively, it can power a club all the way to the postseason -- or to a World Series

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TAMPA -- Optimistically, the Rays are hoping this season will play out a lot like 2018, with a young team holding its own long enough and staying afloat before getting hot and surging to the finish line.

The role of the closer has evolved in the past decade or so. Managers are less likely these days to have a dedicated arm for the ninth inning and more likely to save their best bullpen pitchers for high-leverage situations, regardless of frame. Consider this: since 2022, there have been