Baseball Week In Review 6-30-08
By Keith Backer
If you had told the average person, before the season started, that the Rays (sans “Devil”) would be the best team in baseball by the end of June, they would probably think you were insane. After all, this is a team that has never had a winning season since the franchise was born in 1998 and has finished in last place in the American League East every year with the exception of 2004. Their payroll is miniscule (roughly $43 million) compared to the beasts of the East, Boston ($133 million) and New York ($207 million), and there are no clearly defined super-star players (although you might be able to make a case for Carl Crawford). Yet somehow this team has managed to become the best team in all of baseball. (more…)

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