The first full week of Grapefruit League games are in the books for the Tampa Bay Rays, and Steve Carney brings you the good, the bad, the ugly, and the otherwise from the early goings. He also opens the mailbag for the first time, taking your questions on social media follows, the future home of the club, and the prerequisites for getting to the big leagues as a pitcher and position player.
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Steve Carney is the founder and publisher of St. Pete Nine. One of the people most associated with baseball coverage in Tampa Bay, he spent 13 seasons covering the Rays for flagship radio station WDAE, first as producer of Rays Radio broadcasts, then as beat reporter beginning in 2011. He likes new analytics and aged bourbon, and is the owner of one of the ugliest knuckleballs ever witnessed by baseball scouts.
