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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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