{"id":197993,"date":"2026-03-19T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197993\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:02:08","slug":"gdt-tampa-bay-should-just-never-trade-with-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197993\/","title":{"rendered":"GDT: Tampa Bay should just never trade with Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">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=\"\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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=\"\">Anyways\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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":197994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[91777,91781,91780,91778,3821,71231,23181,135,137,136,91779],"class_list":["post-197993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-curtis-mead","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-kevin-stocker","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rays","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wilson-ramos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197993","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=197993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}