Wendle Gee

(Music Pun streak begins here, because I'm not letting that R.E.M. pun go by)

I don't understand it. Even if the Rays trade a lot of their guys, they're still a weird-ass team. Things are happening here that shouldn't be.

-They brought Tyler Glasnow's arm back to life. They guy had been a disappointment in Pittsburgh, and the second he gets to Tampa, he becomes a new pitcher, finally hitting the numbers they promised he would, and becoming a great starting option in place of Eovaldi and Archer.

-The team's marquee player, Kevin Kiermaier, is batting below the Mendoza line, and playing legitimately poorly, which is a new thing for him.

-Only one person currently on this team has more than ten home runs, and it's CJ Cron, a guy who's new to the team. Wilson Ramos had 16, but now he's playing for Philly.

-Four starters are rookies. Joey Wendle, Daniel Robertson, Jake Bauers and Willy Adames.

-Blake Snell, Yonny Chirinos and Glasnow are the only actual starters on this team. Everyone else, including Ryan Yarbrough and Ryne Stanek, are used as long-relievers and 'openers', by Kevin Cash and his goofy new bullpen plan.

-Sergio Romo is the closer. He hasn't been successful as a closer since roughly 2014. If that. Also, he may be the only closer in baseball right now to have an ice cream flavor named after him. Yes, it's been discontinued since he left the Giants, but it still happened.

-They're still in third place, and one game above .500

Crazy, crazy stuff.

Coming Tonight: Mets pitcher, one that's doing pretty well, which could be anyone except Vargas.