{"id":197966,"date":"2026-03-19T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:38:08","slug":"gdt-tampa-bay-should-just-never-trade-with-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197966\/","title":{"rendered":"GDT: Tampa Bay should just never trade with Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There are couple of really bad trades in Rays franchise history and the Philadelphia Phillies are responsible for at least two of the them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During the expansion draft, the Devil Rays sent Bobby Abreu to Philadelphia for Kevin Stocker. That move turned out badly, but at least Stocker was a competent shortstop for a bit and even led the league in batting average for a time in 1999. Then you have some other duds like sending Jose Alvarado and Wilson Ramos to the Phillies in seperate deals that didn\u2019t give the Rays much of a return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lastly, there\u2019s the Christopher Sanchez for Curtis Mead deal which may just turn out to be worse than the aforementioned Abreu trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">First pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies is at 1:05 at BayCare Ballpark and the Phillies will be providing tv coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are couple of really bad trades in Rays franchise history and the Philadelphia Phillies are responsible for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,91769,137,136],"class_list":["post-197966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays-discussion","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}