Early in season at bottom of AL East

• Baltimore Orioles & Cincinnati Reds – O’s lose 24 to 2
• Not Charlie Morton’s Day
• Wrexham A.F.C. comparison
• Max Fried is bringing the fire – almost No-Hitter
• Catchers & Pitcher Battery
• Catcher value measurements
  • Arm Strength
  • Pop Time – Caught Stealing
  • Blocking
  • Framing
  • Pitcher not shaking off calls from catcher, Yanier Molina
  • Fangraphs – effective defensive rating
• Danny Jansen, 1st year with Rays, great blocker & building rapport with pitchers
• Rays not catching opponents from stealing bases
• Importance of Framing metric decreases with electronic strike zone
• Salvador Perez – Kansas City Royals catcher
• Tres Barrera & Logan Driscoll
• Baseball Savant measure catcher framing & strike zone
• Rays catchers rank 50th & 51st
• Why is Jonathan Aranda not showing up higher in the lineup
• Taylor Walls, switch hitting talent questioned
• Rays Roster Crunch – Palacios, Montes, Caballero, Josh Lowe, Tre Moran
• Trade Brandon Lowe to Mariners for Harry Ford
• Tre Morgan
• Moving on from Randy Arozarena, they moved on from Zach Effinrrrrrr
• Moving a franchise player like Brandon Lowe, Kevin Kiermaier & Longoria
• Evan Longoria could bring a strong aggressive approach as a coach for the team
• The question to Eric Neander and his group “Who is our core”
• Sign Junior Caminero to a long-term extension
• Fast Bat Speed – 78.7 mph – bat speed – Junior Caminero exceeds Judge & Ohtani
• Move Yandy Diaz to Reds who need a first baseman since Joey Votto left
• Rays have an outstanding outfield core throughout all of the Rays organization
• What’s happening with Curtis Mead
• NHL playoffs
• Stanley Cup – at which point do that stop adding winning team tiers
• Tampa Championships
• Tampa Baseball Museum event with Larry Rothschild, Joe Maddon & Rick Vaughn
• Rays this year looks like Astros of last year, who started slow and grew stronger
• Will the away games strengthen the team
• Smelling the frustration of Kevin Cash
• Rays have the talent and potential to, to fight back
• Charleston River Dogs are one of the hottest minor league team

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