In discussing the Tampa Bay Rays and analyzing the moves they make (or don’t), we at DRaysBay have found that there is a bar that must be cleared if an article by another publication providing the same content is to be respected.
We’ve called it “intellectual honesty,” and we have taken a lot of heat for it.
A writer who was among the best in the baseball journalism sphere at this task has also just been hired by the very team we cover. When it comes to writing about the Rays (as Jeff Sullivan often did), I’m not sure who is left to take up that mantle.