Rays are resting, but Kevin Cash is stashing aces up his sleeve for Tuesday's game against the Orioles. , , ,
Austin Meadows did win the AL Player of the Week award for his production over 27 plate appearances: .542 BA, 12 RBIs, and four home runs, including the one at Toronto's Rogers Centre that landed in the 500 level in the upper deck in right field. Marc Topkin, the Tampa Bay Times award-winning beat writer, points out rather soberly that Meadows had a similarly impressive beginning to his 2018 season, hitting .439 and smashing four homers over 11 games, but then cooled off, was sent to the minors, and traded to the Rays at the trade deadline (with Tyler Glasnow to the Pirates for Chris Archer).
W L Pct. Games Behind
Tampa Bay 12 4 .750 ------
New York 6 9 .400 5.5
Baltimore 6 10 .375 6
Boston 6 10 375 6
Toronto 5 11 .313 7
A day by day look at the Kevin Cash Rays in 2019: starters, openers, bulkmen, a crew of interchangeable relievers on a shuttle between St. Pete and Triple A Durham, plus extreme defensive shifts that now and then use pitchers as position players. The Rays Way is to live or die with computer-generated analytics, batter by batter and pitcher by pitcher matchups, and Kevin Cash's outside-the-box baseball mind. This is their 2019 journey.
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