Desmond Archive

The One Where We Discuss McGee’s Fastball, Hellboy’s Changeup And Crawford’s Clubhouse Presence

Before the Webtopia, Joe Smith gives us several great tidbits in his latest column… On Jake McGee: “McGee feels he’s...
Tampa Bay Rays Add Alexander Torres, Desmond Jennings, and Jeremy Hellickson to 40-Man Roster

Carlos Pena was also reinstated from the 60-day DL. These moves are pretty much procedural. Jennings and Hellickson were going...
Hellickson, Jennings, Torres Added To 40-Man Roster

The Rays announced today that they have added their top prospects Jeremy Hellickson and Desmond Jennings as well as Alex Torres...
The Rays and The Rule 5 Draft

The front office will undoubtedly be faced with many tough decisions this winter. We’ve discussed many of them; Crawford, the...
The Rays got the ball rolling with last week’s trade of defensively gifted second baseman Akinori…

The Rays got the ball rolling with last week’s trade of defensively gifted second baseman Akinori Iwamura (the trade market...
The One Where We Discuss Another Market Inefficiency, The Rays Tuesday Win And Minor League Awards

From the “Can’t make this up” pile, Marc Topkin drops this little nugget… …the Rays decided to keep Uchibori, Iwamura’s...
RaysAllDay.com:Does Desmond Jennings make Carl Crawford Expendable?

There has been a lot of trade talk this year…more than we have ever seen from the Rays right before...