The Rays lost two out of three games to the Tigers, and managed to burn through their bullpen in the process of dropping Sunday’s game, which involved two blown leads. Not ideal! I try to remember that we are fortunate that such games have been rare this season.
Marc Topkin writes on player “buy-in” — why the Rays can have relievers who pitch different innings and batters who platoon. Of course, as Chris Archer notes in the article, winning makes buy-in easier, but that would be true no matter what approach Cash was taking.
SNY’s Andy Martino responded to a doozy of a question to explain the Rays success.