Showing posts with label Johnny Damon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnny Damon. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Damon, Ramirez Provide Ray of Hope in Tampa Bay

Call it a fire sale, call it open season, call it anything you want. The 2010-2011 offseason for the Tampa Bay Rays has been anything but sunny. Not even three months after the World Series concluded with the San Francisco Giants beating the Texas Rangers, the Rays have already lost Joaquin Benoit, Carlos Peña, Jason Bartlett, Gabe Kapler, Grant Balfour, Matt Garza, Rafael Soriano, and (perhaps the biggest fish of them all in) Carl Crawford to either free agency or in trades made for future prospects.

It makes you wonder, do the Rays have anything to offer big name ballplayers?

As it turns out, they do (somehow). Pending physical examinations, the Rays have signed free agent outfielders Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez to one-year deals on Friday.