The Tampa Bay Rays were the laughingstock of baseball for about an hour on Saturday evening following a pair of roster moves that had fans scratching their heads. Designating Corey Dickerson for assignment was probably the more puzzling of the two, but let’s talk about that Jake Odorizzi trade. It netted Jermaine Palacios, a Venezuelan shortstop prospect coming off a big 2017 season. Palacios hasn’t quite hit the prospect radar yet, but the Rays have a history of identifying such prospects before the rest of the industry — Chih-Wei Hu and Willy Adames being two recent examples.
Scouting Jermaine Palacios, the Rays’ newest prospect
