While I agree with the roster being relatively ******, the plate discipline of the team has been downright putrid.Not a big fan of Shelton but this isn't exactly a murderous row of hitters either. Without Longoria and Joyce this team was going to struggle to score runs. This team for the last few years has been preaching pitching and defense because they don't have the horses to keep up with the Red Sox and Yankees offensively. With a new hitting coach there might be a slight improvement but they aren't going to be a high scoring team. It's not like the Angels who had one of the best hitters of all time come back to normal and an elite prospect to call up once they fired their hitting coach. They just don't have the depth to overcome the injuries they've had this year. The Rays have done a great job of developing pitchers but the same can't be said for players at the plate.
Further proving the buccaneers mismanagement.
Briscoe maybe but Price is a soft, fat, injury prone backup.
IMO Rays need to trade BJ (he will not be here next year) and possibly Shields if the offer is good (archer looked good the brief time he came up, or Davis can move from bull pen) for prospects, and/or someone that can hit the baseball.
Knew they should've drafted Demps in the 7th round....
You'd think the ownership/front office people would be embarrassed enough to do something about it. That crap shouldn't be tolerated or treated as just another loss.
It is just another loss though, doesn't matter if they were no hit or the pitching staff gave up 20 runs. If people want to get rid of Shelton because of the offense over the last two-three years, ok that's a big enough sample size. You don't make changes based on four or five games, that's not how the Rays front office works.
When our hitting has been anemic and terrible for the last few years, you make changes. These 3(!) perfect games and one no-hitter are unacceptable. We've been one-hit probably 300 times in the last couple years it seems. This team should be better than that.
It is just another loss though, doesn't matter if they were no hit or the pitching staff gave up 20 runs. If people want to get rid of Shelton because of the offense over the last two-three years, ok that's a big enough sample size. You don't make changes based on four or five games, that's not how the Rays front office works.