Shane Tourtellotte did a fun historical exercise, matching the statistical contributions of Jackie Robinson to present day players to find who most closely matches.
I’m going to give you a little Rays spoiler. Lucas Duda, former Ray, is the player in all of baseball who plays least like Robinson.
- In what will continue to be a story for some time yet, the Rays have severed ties on Tuesday with team doctor Michael Reilly, after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. The latest update from the Tampa Bay Times is that the woman making the accusation issued a statement saying that she stands by her original accusations, but does not wish to comment further.