Matthew Sliverman

2017 American League East Projections

X-Boston Red Sox 96-66 After a pair of last place finishes in the American League East in 2014 and 2015, the Boston Red Sox were able to bounce back in 2016. The Red Sox would win 93 games en route to claiming the A.L. East Title. The Sox appeared ready to make another a run [...]

Back To Square One

The Tampa Bay Rays are in their 19th year as a Major League Baseball franchise and the best term that can describe their existence is hot and cold. In the Rays first decade in MLB, they never won more than 70 games in a season while they lost at least 100 games in a year [...]

Same Old Rays

Over the off-season there was a huge shakeup within the front office of the Tampa Bay Rays that they weren't quickly expected to recover from. Longtime Rays general manager Andrew Friedman left to become the president of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers while manager Joe Maddon opted out his contract to become the [...]