By Chris Glover With the rule 4 amateur draft underway once again, it seemed like as good a time as any to kill a couple of hours over at The Baseball Cube’s draft research tool. While looking over the past few years of data, I was struck by something that may be well known, but  [ Read More ]

Yeah, I know it isn’t called SkyDome anymore.  But that was such a cool name, we shouldn’t let it die. As many of you know, we here at The Ray Area have a Toronto bureau to bring you all baseball news from the frozen north, eh.  Local stat analyst Chris Glover is a Toronto resident  [ Read More ]

By Chris Glover It can be tough to find new angles to talk about for any team in the off season, with the proposition getting harder when you root for one whose bigger moves include acquiring Jeff Keppinger and selling Russ Canzler. Luckily, the good folks at Brooks Baseball have added a treasure trove of  [ Read More ]

  [If you've been reading this site for any amount of time, you already know how talented Chris is.  But, this post deserves a little introduction anyway only because it's premise is so creative.  I didn't edit a word -- even his British tendency to spell "defense" with a "c." I generally dislike season previews  [ Read More ]

Chris Glover swoops in and grabs a COW honor with his Jessie Spano impression.  After Travis broke the news of Carlos Pena’s return, Chris wrote: Travis, this comment just got me fired up for baseball again. With the mild distraction of football about to end I was wondering how I would pass the time here  [ Read More ]

By Chris Glover *Is there any limit to the number of bad puns Moore’s name allows us to use? (The asterik is Chris’s.  I accept his question as a challenge for 2012. -Mark) Using a graphic that seems very much at home here at The Ray Area, Steve Slowinksi suggests that Matt Moore just got  [ Read More ]

One of the really cool things about last night is the way everyone seems to have a cool story about where they were or what they were doing when it all went down.  It’s almost like the baseball equivalent of the JFK Assassination (does that make Robert Andino Lee Harvey Oswlad, Evan Longoria Jack Ruby,  [ Read More ]

[Chris, our Canada-based correspondent, has taken his last opportunity to see the Rays in person this week on their final visit to the north land.] By Chris Glover Jose Molina appears to be what we would generally describe as intelligent. He’s made a living as a good defensive catcher who understands how to call a  [ Read More ]

If you’re gonna be a homer, you may as well be open about it. The Rays could be down by four heading into the bottom of the 9th and it would only take a quick Matt Joyce single to get many of us calculating how the team can win the team. Granted that such optimism  [ Read More ]

By Chris Glover All-Star Gazing It seems obligatory for any sports site or blog to post an article criticising the current year All-Star rosters, citing Scott Rolen’s lack of offense, Josh Hamilton’s lack of playing time or Derek Jeter’s lack of a pulse in the field. We are not going to go there however. Instead,  [ Read More ]