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Kevin Forrest Cash (born December 6, 1977) is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is the manager of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). Previously, Cash played catcher in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Houston Astros. As a player, Cash was ...
On November 15, 2005, Maddon was hired to manage the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. [citation needed] The Rays went 121–197 (.381) in Maddon's first two seasons. [14] The Rays were in yet another re-building phase, this time under the management of General Manager Andrew Friedman. Tampa Bay held the lowest payroll in baseball at $44 million.
Maddon is the first manager to have won the Manager of the Year Award with the Rays, first winning it in 2008, and again in 2011. [8] Maddon became the manager of the then-Devil Rays in 2006. [7] On February 15, 2012 the Rays extended his contract through the 2015 season, [9] however he opted out of his contract at the end of the 2014 season.
The injury-depleted Rays won 99 games this season to earn an AL Wild Card, but were swept by the Texas Rangers in the opening postseason round last week. Still, Tampa Bay president of baseball ...
MLB has suspended Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Edwin Uceta three games for throwing at Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos on Tuesday.. Rays manager Kevin Cash received a one-game ...
Shelton became the Tampa Bay Rays' hitting coach after the 2009 season. [20] [21] The Rays fired him in September 2016. [22] [23] On December 12, 2016, the Toronto Blue Jays hired him as a quality control coach for the 2017 season. [13] [24] [25] On November 6, 2017, the Minnesota Twins hired Shelton as bench coach for the 2018 season. [12] [26 ...
Among managers who have managed at least 20 post-season games, he has the highest winning percentage. Francona won his first seven playoff elimination games (not losing until being swept by the Chicago White Sox in the 2005 ALDS) and first nine ALCS elimination games (not losing until Game 7 of the 2008 ALCS at the Tampa Bay Rays).
The Tampa Bay area has a long association with amateur and professional baseball. Tampa and St. Petersburg were among the first hosts of Major League Baseball spring training in the 1910s, the Tampa Smokers and St. Petersburg Saints were two of the founding members of the minor league Florida State League (FSL) in 1919, and several other communities in the area also hosted FSL teams in the ...