2011 Pre-Season Preview: AL East â€“ Tampa Bay Rays

March 30, 2011 by Jeffrey Brown · Leave a Comment

CF BJ Upton Tampa Bay Rays (2010 record: 96-66) Everyone thinks the Rays will take a significant step backwards in 2011, but I am not so sure those people are right. Tampa is one of the best-run organizations in baseball, and I think they have the young horses needed to minimize the impact of the […]

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Call Them World Champions — Yet Again

April 21, 2010 by Brandon Williams · Leave a Comment

A simulated season on Out of the Park Baseball 11 (www.ootpdevelopments.com) determined that the New York Yankees will win the 2010 World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies. The title would be the 29th in franchise history, but the first one via wild card for the Bronx Bombers, who finished second to Tampa in the American […]

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