Neander: Rays not giving up on ’25 as they try to thread needle at Deadline
July 30, 2025
What are our thoughts on this?
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Oh brother…..
We do both buying and selling every year, not news at this point
Something must be going on behind the scenes. He’s been wishy-washy since saying “right the ship or it’s over” All-Star week.
The teams performance since July says otherwise. Winning 1 out of 3, every series will not make a playoff run possible. Starting to slowly fall behind in the wild card bubble now too.
I trust the front office plus we have a new owner next year I’m not worried even if we don’t make it this year. been following the team a long long time the fans have gotten spoiled with our success a bit. I’m just happy we are no longer a 70 win team. if the new owner can inject some more cash we will take the next step to greatness. good things come with time not everything has to be this year this instant. I remember the days of Steve Cox and Brent Abernathy. The days of Seth McClung and Jesus Colome. we’ve come a long way no need to make any impulsive decisions.
Last years deadline trades have really hurt our chances at making the playoffs this year. Keeping Arozarena on the team would’ve helped our struggles vs LHP and OF production. Trading Paredes for pitching instead of Morel would’ve put us in a much better spot for this year and beyond.
lol no one is going to publicly concede the season in professional sports
He said this exact thing last year.
“But Neander said the Rays have no interest in a “replay” of last year’s Deadline, when they dealt away key players for a bundle of prospects. They want to do right by this team, too.”
This feels like a lot of BS, but I guess we’ll see in the next 48 hours
I can’t remember where I read it (maybe the Athletic?) but someone wrote that they didn’t think the Rays would be sellers on account of it being Stu’s last chance at making a run.
I guess implying that he wouldn’t be motivated to make moves toward rebuilding when he will no longer be owning the club.
I wonder if Zalupski’s cadre has any say in what direction the team goes at the deadline.
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there are a lot more teams in that gray area like the Rays this year, not playing great but not wholesale shitting the bed and still within reach of a wild card spot. so i think the “fire sale” days are gonna be fewer and far between, league wide.
I love Neander, but he’s got to lock in and fix a lot of the mistakes he made from last deadline. The Morel trade in particular was absolutely atrocious. The Cubs got Kyle Tucker for Paredes, and we got Ty Johnson, Hunter Bigge, and Christopher Morel. We are also paying Ha-Seong Kim about double Paredes’ contract this year, too.
I’m fine with getting a strong return for any of B. Lowe, Pete, Yandy, etc. But I don’t want to see a reclamation project and futures coming back. Use the Glasnow trade as a model. Two guys who are young, controllable, and have the chance to help now and later.
If Putinsky is going to be the owner for sure why the current owner wants to give away players, it doesn’t make sense .
Rays are above .500 so you can’t just outright admit that. But they should sell.
This is understandable.
Yes we have sucked balls this month. But through April and most of May the Rays were decent, and then for well over a month they were the best team in baseball. It was a hot streak that went on for an extended period of time. A more than large enough sample size to suggest they this team is just one big win away from potentially going on another tear.
The window is closing fast. The last of our 2020 core are almost certainly going to be playing for other teams in 2026. I think the FO realizes that this is likely the last chance the Rays will have to make a deep run before a rebuild is needed. Outside of Caminero and Aranda, there are no big impact players in the lineup that aren’t named Lowe or Diaz. Two names who’s contracts are up at the end of the year. And I seriously doubt that the Rays will pay them more to keep them, unless we hear in September that new ownership is willing to spend, but I’m not holding my breath.
Half of our offensive prowess comes from those 2020 pieces. The other half is a mixture of Caminero with Aranda, and whatever scraps the team has. Our near MLB ready prospects are still not ready. Carson still strikes out at an alarming rate.
I think they’re gonna do a lil bit of buying, and then a lil bit of selling.
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Oh brother…..
We do both buying and selling every year, not news at this point
Something must be going on behind the scenes. He’s been wishy-washy since saying “right the ship or it’s over” All-Star week.
The teams performance since July says otherwise. Winning 1 out of 3, every series will not make a playoff run possible. Starting to slowly fall behind in the wild card bubble now too.
I trust the front office plus we have a new owner next year I’m not worried even if we don’t make it this year. been following the team a long long time the fans have gotten spoiled with our success a bit. I’m just happy we are no longer a 70 win team. if the new owner can inject some more cash we will take the next step to greatness. good things come with time not everything has to be this year this instant. I remember the days of Steve Cox and Brent Abernathy. The days of Seth McClung and Jesus Colome. we’ve come a long way no need to make any impulsive decisions.
Last years deadline trades have really hurt our chances at making the playoffs this year. Keeping Arozarena on the team would’ve helped our struggles vs LHP and OF production. Trading Paredes for pitching instead of Morel would’ve put us in a much better spot for this year and beyond.
lol no one is going to publicly concede the season in professional sports
He said this exact thing last year.
“But Neander said the Rays have no interest in a “replay” of last year’s Deadline, when they dealt away key players for a bundle of prospects. They want to do right by this team, too.”
This feels like a lot of BS, but I guess we’ll see in the next 48 hours
I can’t remember where I read it (maybe the Athletic?) but someone wrote that they didn’t think the Rays would be sellers on account of it being Stu’s last chance at making a run.
I guess implying that he wouldn’t be motivated to make moves toward rebuilding when he will no longer be owning the club.
I wonder if Zalupski’s cadre has any say in what direction the team goes at the deadline.
>”*My “Not involved in human trafficking” T-shirt* has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.”
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there are a lot more teams in that gray area like the Rays this year, not playing great but not wholesale shitting the bed and still within reach of a wild card spot. so i think the “fire sale” days are gonna be fewer and far between, league wide.
I love Neander, but he’s got to lock in and fix a lot of the mistakes he made from last deadline. The Morel trade in particular was absolutely atrocious. The Cubs got Kyle Tucker for Paredes, and we got Ty Johnson, Hunter Bigge, and Christopher Morel. We are also paying Ha-Seong Kim about double Paredes’ contract this year, too.
I’m fine with getting a strong return for any of B. Lowe, Pete, Yandy, etc. But I don’t want to see a reclamation project and futures coming back. Use the Glasnow trade as a model. Two guys who are young, controllable, and have the chance to help now and later.
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If Putinsky is going to be the owner for sure why the current owner wants to give away players, it doesn’t make sense .
Rays are above .500 so you can’t just outright admit that. But they should sell.
This is understandable.
Yes we have sucked balls this month. But through April and most of May the Rays were decent, and then for well over a month they were the best team in baseball. It was a hot streak that went on for an extended period of time. A more than large enough sample size to suggest they this team is just one big win away from potentially going on another tear.
The window is closing fast. The last of our 2020 core are almost certainly going to be playing for other teams in 2026. I think the FO realizes that this is likely the last chance the Rays will have to make a deep run before a rebuild is needed. Outside of Caminero and Aranda, there are no big impact players in the lineup that aren’t named Lowe or Diaz. Two names who’s contracts are up at the end of the year. And I seriously doubt that the Rays will pay them more to keep them, unless we hear in September that new ownership is willing to spend, but I’m not holding my breath.
Half of our offensive prowess comes from those 2020 pieces. The other half is a mixture of Caminero with Aranda, and whatever scraps the team has. Our near MLB ready prospects are still not ready. Carson still strikes out at an alarming rate.
I think they’re gonna do a lil bit of buying, and then a lil bit of selling.