Rob Noverraz

2023 Season Review: Tampa Bay Rays

October 7, 2023 Rob Noverraz Baseball, Team Contributors

You know when you’re watching a TV series and they do an episode where they start with the disaster and then show you the run up to said disaster using a normal day littered with foreshadowing and impending doom? This

Are the Rays on the move?

May 18, 2020 Rob Noverraz Baseball

In 2018 I summarised the plans for a dreamy new stadium in Tampa Bay that was supposed to be the glittering home of the Rays for decades to come. The dream ended and we’ve woken up to a very different

Looking for a Hit (By Pitch)

January 30, 2020 Rob Noverraz Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Plunked, beaned, drilled, hit-by-pitch, the often unpleasant act of stalling the progress of a speeding baseball with one’s self. It’s perhaps not the most morally clean play to root for, but it generates replays and occasionally talking points. So, for

FIGHT! 2018

March 21, 2019 Rob Noverraz Baseball

As we ramp up to the beginning of the 2019 season, one thing Baseball players have demonstrated over and over is that they’re good at keeping grudges (Lest we forget that in 2017 Hunter Strickland plunked Bryce Harper in retaliation

Rays the roof for a new stadium

July 17, 2018 Rob Noverraz Baseball

So, the Rays have finally announced plans to ditch the stadium that regularly only competes with the A’s Coloseum as the worst in Baseball. We’ve been shown some glittering pictures of a jewel like creation sitting in a built up

MLB Rookies of 2017 – Part 1

August 8, 2017 Rob Noverraz Baseball, Opinion

At the time of writing (some weeks ago – a very tardy and apologetic ed.), 153 players had made their MLB debut in 2017. Just over half way through the season I was interested to see how the newbies are

The Unwritten Rules Of Baseball

July 9, 2017 Rob Noverraz Baseball

Baseball has a lot of rules. A LOT of rules. Somewhere between 70 and 110 depending on how you count them. Whilst many people will not be fully aware of rule 7.03 (c) whereby ‘a game shall be forfeited to

A Brief History Of Mound Charges – Part 2

June 30, 2017 Rob Noverraz Baseball

Picking up where we left off in part one, here are three more mound charging episodes that we all secretly enjoyed whilst pretending outwardly that it has no place in the game. This time we have two Venturas for