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Kiss 'Em Goodbye: Tampa Bay Rays

By Buster Olney, Baseball Prospectus and Insider staff
ESPN Insider

Friday, September 11, 2009

Insider's series on MLB teams that have fallen out of the playoff race opens with the rapid demise of the Tampa Bay Rays, who enter Monday on an 11-game losing streak -- tied for the longest in history for a defending league champ. Baseball Prospectus' preseason PECOTA projection: 94-68, third place Current record: 72-71, third place Third place seems safely correct, but the record? Not so much. To see Buster Olney's take on what went wrong for the Rays and what's next, plus items from the r ...

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