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Art Deco · 04-28-2022, 02:54 PM

April 3: Signed free agent LHP A.J. Minter to a 1-year, $1.5M deal; placed Minter on the 60-day IL.

Minter's been one of the best lefty relievers over the years, but he's coming off a UCL tear and will be out the first half of the season. If his stuff's relatively intact, he'll be a bargain for the second half.

Opening Day could have not gone any better, and here's the box score to prove it:

James Hays picked up where he left off last season with another utterly dominant performance and the bats went wild. The only down note was that Alex Kirilloff tweaked his hamstring, and while the injury is "minimal" it's for 3 weeks and I'm just not going to fool around with a hamstring injury, so he'll go to the IL. Rookies Dominic Scavone and Diego Cartaya were impressive in their MLB debuts, and new boy Jose Aguilar, who had cup of coffee last year and will be playing everyday with Kirilloff out, blasted his first MLB longball.

April 4: Placed OF Alex Kirilloff on the 10-day IL with a strained hamstring, recalled OF Brayden Jobert from AAA Durham.

Jobert was one of the players we acquired from Colorado for Heliot Ramos a couple years ago and he had a big year at Durham, hitting 310/385/516 with 19 HR and 85 RBI, which earned him a spot on this year's 40-man roster.

Game 2: Joe Ryan struggled in his return from a torn labrum late last season and put the Rays in a hole they couldn't quite climb out of as they fell just short to the Royals 5-4. Ryan (0-1) was 3.2 8 5 5 1 7 with a homer allowed; at least the 7 whiffs were encouraging. Wennington Romero held the fort with 3 1/3 scoreless and they nearly came all the way back thanks to Home Run Howard as Ed homered for the second straight day, a 3-run blast in the 8th, and then had an RBI double with 2 out in the 9th to cut it to one but Wander Franco flied out to end the game.

Game 3: It was quite the thriller at the Trop as the Rays found themselves down 8-5 with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th despite banging out 17 hits. But hit #18 was a bases-clearing triple by Ed Howard, who now has a ridiculous 11 RBI through 3 games, and hit #19 came in the bottom of the 11th when Kelly Crumpton drilled his 2nd homer of the year to give the Rays a 9-8 walk-off win. Crumpton's dinger made a winner of Yasunari Uehara, who threw 2 scoreless innings in his season debut. The Rays got another rough start, this time from JT Ginn who went 4 6 5 5 3 6 with a homer allowed, and three relievers gave up runs. But the bats carried them on the day, with Crumpton capping a 4-hit, 2-RBI day with the homer and rookies Jose Aguilar and Dominic Scavone each banged out 3 hits.

Team record: 2-1. Next up: 4 more at the Trop vs Toronto.

04-28-2022, 02:54 PM	#620
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,887	April 3-5, 2028: vs Kansas City (3) April 3: Signed free agent LHP A.J. Minter to a 1-year, $1.5M deal; placed Minter on the 60-day IL. Minter's been one of the best lefty relievers over the years, but he's coming off a UCL tear and will be out the first half of the season. If his stuff's relatively intact, he'll be a bargain for the second half. Opening Day could have not gone any better, and here's the box score to prove it: James Hays picked up where he left off last season with another utterly dominant performance and the bats went wild. The only down note was that Alex Kirilloff tweaked his hamstring, and while the injury is "minimal" it's for 3 weeks and I'm just not going to fool around with a hamstring injury, so he'll go to the IL. Rookies Dominic Scavone and Diego Cartaya were impressive in their MLB debuts, and new boy Jose Aguilar, who had cup of coffee last year and will be playing everyday with Kirilloff out, blasted his first MLB longball. April 4: Placed OF Alex Kirilloff on the 10-day IL with a strained hamstring, recalled OF Brayden Jobert from AAA Durham. Jobert was one of the players we acquired from Colorado for Heliot Ramos a couple years ago and he had a big year at Durham, hitting 310/385/516 with 19 HR and 85 RBI, which earned him a spot on this year's 40-man roster. Game 2: Joe Ryan struggled in his return from a torn labrum late last season and put the Rays in a hole they couldn't quite climb out of as they fell just short to the Royals 5-4. Ryan (0-1) was 3.2 8 5 5 1 7 with a homer allowed; at least the 7 whiffs were encouraging. Wennington Romero held the fort with 3 1/3 scoreless and they nearly came all the way back thanks to Home Run Howard as Ed homered for the second straight day, a 3-run blast in the 8th, and then had an RBI double with 2 out in the 9th to cut it to one but Wander Franco flied out to end the game. Game 3: It was quite the thriller at the Trop as the Rays found themselves down 8-5 with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th despite banging out 17 hits. But hit #18 was a bases-clearing triple by Ed Howard, who now has a ridiculous 11 RBI through 3 games, and hit #19 came in the bottom of the 11th when Kelly Crumpton drilled his 2nd homer of the year to give the Rays a 9-8 walk-off win. Crumpton's dinger made a winner of Yasunari Uehara, who threw 2 scoreless innings in his season debut. The Rays got another rough start, this time from JT Ginn who went 4 6 5 5 3 6 with a homer allowed, and three relievers gave up runs. But the bats carried them on the day, with Crumpton capping a 4-hit, 2-RBI day with the homer and rookies Jose Aguilar and Dominic Scavone each banged out 3 hits. Team record: 2-1. Next up: 4 more at the Trop vs Toronto.