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When Chicago White Sox pitcher Chris Sale was 9 years old, his uncle took him to Tropicana Field for the first game in Tampa Bay Devil Rays history. Sale saved the ticket stub as a birthday souvenir and came home with a mustard glob on his pinstriped...

While there's much debate about the Nationals' likely innings limit on Stephen Strasburg, the White Sox are also handling Chris Sale with kid gloves this season.

The 2007 Tampa Bay Devil Rays were an unfathomably ugly team to watch. They ranked dead last in baseball with a 5.53 ERA. Their bullpen also fared worse than anyone else, putting up a stupendously bad 6.16 ERA. The pitching staff was manned with plen...

For all the wisdom Branch Rickey doled out as a baseball operator, one piece of advice stands out as the best lesson for aspiring GMs: "Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late." Four years ago, Tampa Bay traded Delmon Young ear...

The Rays and the A's keep learning the hard way that people won't watch baseball in a bad ballpark. But the problems in Tampa Bay and Oakland don't stop with their stadium issues.

Jeff Gross/Getty Images Although Texas has no plans for a trade, Vladimir Guerrero's days in a Rangers cap may be numbered. The Texas Rangers are currently searching for a new owner and they may soon need to search for an official cap supplier as...

Jeff Moffett/Icon SMI The Saga Continues Fallout from the Ben Roethlisberger investigation continues today. The officer who took the initial report from the woman who accused Roethlisberger of sexual assault following an incident at a Georgia bar...

AP Photo/Richard Drew Changes in the Lineup The Mets confirmed their Opening Day lineup will not include SS Jose Reyes and 1B Daniel Murphy; the team may also be without closer Francisco Rodriguez, according to MLB.com. Rodriguez left the team an...

Al Leiter does not take the news that he's not the only pitcher to have defeated all thirty teams well. March 31, 2004: Yankees righty Kevin Brown takes the mound against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and pitches his way to a 12-1 win. With the W, Brow...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin Ah, what might have been. Steve Sipple of the Lincoln Journal-Star had an interesting column this morning about Carl Crawford after the jet-quick Tampa Bay Devil Rays outfielder tied a modern-day major-league reco...

Andrew Friedman's savvy moves have led the Rays from the AL East cellar to baseball's summit.

The biggest difference between last year's last-place Tampa Bay Devil Rays and this year's first-place Tampa Bay Rays? You mean aside from the name change and the ugly uniforms? Yeah, aside from those. The obvious answer is pitching. After all, las...

Blog | Conversation | July 01, 2008

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays plan to ask the St. Petersburg City Council for permission to play a series against the Toronto Blue Jays from April 22-24.

Trying to reinvent itself, the perennial last-place team officially shortened its nickname to simply "Rays."

Jim Hickey was retained Thursday as pitching coach of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, three days after he pleaded no contest to charges of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage.

Carlos Pena and Dmitri Young were named the 2007 comeback players of the year on Tuesday by Major League Baseball.