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Eye On The Enemy: Tampa Bay Rays Preview

Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times joined the Scott Garceau Show with Jeremy Conn to preview the 2015 Tampa Bay Rays season and give his prediction on who will win the American League East. They Rays have had their share of injury issues during spring training. Marc gave his thoughts on the rotation Tampa will have to start the season. "They're going to start the season with 3 of their projected top 5 starters going into spring training, on the DL, and if you look back further, with Mat Moore, 4 of their top starters are out. It's been a tough spring for the Rays."


The Rays bullpen was very strong last season, Topkin believes that they could have another good year. "The Rays have two former closers, which are very good, in Grant Balfour and Ernesto Frieri who are two top closers in the game. They both had bad 2014 but if one of them turns it around, and rebound, they could have a great bullpen."

Finally Marc gave his prediction on who will win the American League East. "It was a tough decision, this a very hard choice, and I thought Boston would be my pick, but between a catcher out for the year, and questions in their rotation, I've picked the Orioles. I don't think the Yankees will be good, and neither will the Blue Jays."

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