Quiet Saturday
It's been a relatively quiet - compared to Friday certainly, when Carl Crawford was eager to make news - and somewhat gray Saturday at Rays camp, as the players went through a somewhat abbreviated workout so they could fulfill commitments at FanFest at Tropicana Field.
Top draft pick David Price had another session of live batting practice, and there were a few other noteworthy things, such as Crawford getting bit by a Trever Miller pitch and Jon Weber losing the grip on his bat, sending players ducking as it hit the batting cage.
FSN did release this year's cable TV schedule, with coverage planned for 75 regular season games, including 37 in HD. Dewayne Staats and Joe Magrane will return as announcers, and Todd Kalas will handle the pre-game show.
The over-the-air TV schedule was also released, with plans for 67 more games on Ch. 66, and making it, with two Rays-Marlins games on Sun Sports, a total of 144 that will be shown.
A Jacksonville affiliate was added to the Rays over-the-air network.
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How about a tallahassee affiliate for over the air? we get ion but not the games
Posted by: asg | February 24, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Actually, in his first year in TB, Miller was pretty good with good control and a decent K rate. His second year was not terrible but also not good. In Houston in 2006 he was excellent, with fine control and a K rate better than 9/9; again, his second year was not particularly good, but he did maintain nearly a 9/9 K rate.
In other words, he is a typical major league reliever whom the Rays signed for just one year at a reasonable market price. He will probably get plenty of work in very specific kinds of situations, which will be exactly right. Chances are he will have some obvious failures which will anger fans who will selectively remember just those outings rather than the more numerous times he does his job well.
Posted by: Einhard | February 23, 2008 at 06:58 PM
2 things --
trever miller hit CC with a pitch? all i remember about trever is that he sucked when he played for us. looks like he's still got control issues. bench him.
affiliate in j'ville? good. the team will get more exposure across the state.
Posted by: raysfan | February 23, 2008 at 04:17 PM