Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 11, 2008
Front Office Silence

Rays index on the Rays front office:

The Rays have the quietest front office in baseball. Even though the Rays were talking with the Tigers for three days, we never heard a peep. Is that by design? Maybe. Most of the Rays trades seem to come from out of left field (so to speak). Did we hear anything before the Gross trade or the Willy Aybar trade or the Chad Bradford trade?

Do the Rays make it a point to keep everything under wraps as tightly as possible? Or is the front office still young enough, and the Rays still a relatively new player, that the national media has yet to establish connections within the front office?

One thing that is becoming very clear. No matter who we, as fans, think the Rays are targeting, most of the time they will get somebody we were not even thinking about. We don't know about the rest of you, but we love it.

I just think the media get less readership/viewership/hits talking about the Rays than talking about the more famous teams. If the Rays continue to win, however, that will change.


Posted by David Pinto at 01:50 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I think you are partly right, but I also think it is part of the intention of the Rays to play it close to the vest and not let anyone outside the decision makers know what they are doing until it is done.

Posted by: Bob R. at December 11, 2008 02:25 PM

Did anyone care about any of those trades at the time?

Posted by: mravery at December 12, 2008 12:12 AM
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