Welcome, Matt Joyce! (and 9=8.com is now on Twitter)

Welcome to the Bigs, Matt Joyce!!! After a brief stint with the team to begin the season, Matt Joyce has been tearing up AAA since returning to the farm. With the injuries to the Rays, Matt Joyce was called up and is making his case to stay in the Bigs with back-to-back strong performances (2-for-3 and 3-for-4 with a couple HRs and lots of RBIs). Wouldn't it be nice to have an everyday right fielder that brings some consistency to the lineup and the outfield? Maybe Zobrist can hold down the fort at 2nd base with Aki gone and Joyce in RF. That leaves Aybar at the super utility guy and gets some really good bats in the lineup everyday. Additionally, the Rays are playing better baseball. In spite of the Indians series (I'm choosing to ignore that as an outlier for now since so many things happened that week that were negative), the Rays have won 11 out of the last 16 games and seem to be rounding into shape. In fact, excluding the Indian's series, the Rays only lost 1 series in all of May (they split a couple of 2 game sets and 1 4-game set). It's important that the Rays win the KC series and have some positive momentum going into the upcoming series against the Yankees, which is a big one! GO RAYS!

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GO RAYS!