Early in season at bottom of AL East
- Baltimore Orioles & Cincinnati Reds – O’s lose 24 to 2
- Not Charlie Morton’s Day
- Wrexham A.F.C. comparison
- Max Fried is bringing the fire – almost No-Hitter
- Catchers & Pitcher Battery
- Catcher value measurements
- Arm Strength
- Pop Time – Caught Stealing
- Blocking
- Framing
- Pitcher not shaking off calls from catcher, Yanier Molina
- Fangraphs – effective defensive rating
- Danny Jansen, 1st year with Rays, great blocker & building rapport with pitchers
- Rays not catching opponents from stealing bases
- Importance of Framing metric decreases with electronic strike zone
- Salvador Perez – Kansas City Royals catcher
- Tres Barrera & Logan Driscoll
- Baseball Savant measure catcher framing & strike zone
- Rays catchers rank 50th & 51st
- Why is Jonathan Aranda not showing up higher in the lineup
- Taylor Walls, switch hitting talent questioned
- Rays Roster Crunch – Palacios, Montes, Caballero, Josh Lowe, Tre Moran
- Trade Brandon Lowe to Mariners for Harry Ford
- Tre Morgan
- Moving on from Randy Arozarena, they moved on from Zach Effinrrrrrr
- Moving a franchise player like Brandon Lowe, Kevin Kiermaier & Longoria
- Evan Longoria could bring a strong aggressive approach as a coach for the team
- The question to Eric Neander and his group “Who is our core”
- Sign Junior Caminero to a long-term extension
- Fast Bat Speed – 78.7 mph – bat speed – Junior Caminero exceeds Judge & Ohtani
- Move Yandy Diaz to Reds who need a first baseman since Joey Votto left
- Rays have an outstanding outfield core throughout all of the Rays organization
- What’s happening with Curtis Mead
- NHL playoffs
- Stanley Cup – at which point do that stop adding winning team tiers
- Tampa Championships
- Tampa Baseball Museum event with Larry Rothschild, Joe Maddon & Rick Vaughn
- Rays this year looks like Astros of last year, who started slow and grew stronger
- Will the away games strengthen the team
- Smelling the frustration of Kevin Cash
- Rays have the talent and potential to, to fight back
- Charleston River Dogs are one of the hottest minor league team
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