2006 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season

2006 Tampa Bay Devil Rays
LeagueAmerican League
DivisionEast
BallparkTropicana Field
CitySt. Petersburg, Florida
Record61–101 (.377)
Divisional place5th
OwnersStuart Sternberg
General managersAndrew Friedman
ManagersJoe Maddon
TelevisionFSN Florida
WXPX
(Joe Magrane, Dewayne Staats)
RadioWHNZ
(Dave Wills, Andy Freed)
WMGG
(Ricardo Taveras, Enrique Oliu)
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The 2006 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season was their ninth since the franchise was created. They finished last in the American League East, posting a league-worst record of 61–101. Their manager was Joe Maddon, who entered his first season with the Devil Rays. The Devil Rays' offense had the fewest runs (689), hits (1,395) and RBI (650) in Major League Baseball, as well as the joint-lowest batting average (.255) and lowest on-base percentage (.314).[1]

Offseason

  • December 2, 2005: Pete LaForest was selected off waivers by the San Diego Padres from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[2]
  • December 7, 2005: Dewon Brazelton was traded by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to the San Diego Padres for Sean Burroughs.[3]
  • January 18, 2006: Luis Rivas was signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[4]
  • January 31, 2006: Russell Branyan was signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.[5]

Regular season

Season standings

AL East
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 97 65 .599 — 50‍–‍31 47‍–‍34
Toronto Blue Jays 87 75 .537 10 50‍–‍31 37‍–‍44
Boston Red Sox 86 76 .531 11 48‍–‍33 38‍–‍43
Baltimore Orioles 70 92 .432 27 40‍–‍41 30‍–‍51
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 61 101 .377 36 41‍–‍40 20‍–‍61


Record vs. opponents

2006 American League record

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Team BAL BOS CWS CLE DET KC LAA MIN NYY OAK SEA TB TEX TOR NL 
Baltimore — 3–15 2–5 4–2 3–3 5–1 4–6 3–6 7–12 2–4 4–6 13–6 3–6 8–11 9–9
Boston 15–3 — 4–2 3–4 3–3 4–5 3–3 1–5 8–11 3–7 4–6 10–9 5–4 7–12 16–2
Chicago 5–2 2–4 — 8–11 12–7 11–8 6–3 9–10 2–4 3–3 5–4 3–3 5–5 5–4 14–4
Cleveland 2–4 4–3 11–8 — 6–13 10–8 4–5 8–11 3–4 3–6 4–5 6–1 5–4 4–2 8–10
Detroit 3–3 3–3 7–12 13–6 — 14–4 3–5 11–8 2–5 5–4 6–3 5–3 5–5 3–3 15–3
Kansas City 1–5 5–4 8–11 8–10 4–14 — 3–7 7–12 2–7 4–5 3–5 1–5 3–3 3–4 10–8
Los Angeles 6–4 3–3 3–6 5–4 5–3 7–3 — 4–2 6–4 11–8 10–9 7–2 11–8 4–6 7–11
Minnesota 6–3 5–1 10–9 11–8 8–11 12–7 2–4 — 3–3 6–4 5–3 6–1 4–5 2–5 16–2
New York 12–7 11–8 4–2 4–3 5–2 7–2 4–6 3–3 — 3–6 3–3 13–5 8–2 10–8 10–8
Oakland 4–2 7–3 3–3 6–3 4–5 5–4 8–11 4–6 6–3 — 17–2 6–3 9–10 6–4 8–10
Seattle 6–4 6–4 4–5 5–4 3–6 5–3 9–10 3–5 3–3 2–17 — 6–3 8–11 4–5 14–4
Tampa Bay 6–13 9–10 3–3 1–6 3–5 5–1 2–7 1–6 5–13 3–6 3–6 — 3–6 6–12 11–7
Texas 6–3 4–5 5–5 4–5 5–5 3–3 8–11 5–4 2–8 10–9 11–8 6–3 — 4–2 7–11
Toronto 11–8 12–7 4–5 2–4 3–3 4–3 6–4 5–2 8–10 4–6 5–4 12–6 2–4 — 9–9


Opening Day starters

Transactions

  • Evan Longoria was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1st round of the June amateur draft.[7]
  • July 12, 2006: Aubrey Huff was traded by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with cash to the Houston Astros for Ben Zobrist and Mitch Talbot (minors).[8]
  • August 24, 2006: Russell Branyan was traded by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to the San Diego Padres for a player to be named later and Evan Meek (minors). The San Diego Padres sent Dale Thayer (minors) (September 15, 2006) to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to complete the trade.[5]

Roster

2006 Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Toby Hall 64 221 51 .231 8 23
1B Travis Lee 114 343 77 .224 11 31
2B Jorge Cantú 107 413 103 .249 14 62
SS Julio Lugo 73 289 89 .308 12 27
3B Aubrey Huff 63 230 65 .283 8 28
LF Carl Crawford 151 600 183 .305 18 77
CF Rocco Baldelli 92 364 110 .302 16 57
RF Damon Hollins 121 333 76 .228 15 33
DH Jonny Gomes 117 385 83 .216 20 59

[9]

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Ty Wigginton 122 444 122 .275 24 79
Greg Norton 98 294 87 .296 17 45
Tomás Pérez 99 241 51 .212 2 16
Dioner Navarro 56 193 47 .244 4 20
Ben Zobrist 52 183 41 .224 2 18
B.J. Upton 50 175 43 .246 1 10
Russell Branyan 64 169 34 .201 12 27
Joey Gathright 55 154 31 .201 0 13
Josh Paul 58 146 38 .260 1 8
Delmon Young 30 126 40 .317 3 10
Kevin Witt 19 61 9 .148 2 5
Nick Green 17 39 3 .077 0 0
Shawn Riggans 10 29 5 .172 0 1
Sean Burroughs 8 21 4 .190 0 1
Luis Ordaz 1 2 0 .000 0 0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Scott Kazmir 24 144.2 10 8 3.24 163
Casey Fossum 25 130.0 6 6 5.33 88
James Shields 21 124.2 6 8 4.84 104
Tim Corcoran 21 90.1 5 9 4.38 59
Jae Weong Seo 17 90.0 1 8 5.00 39
Mark Hendrickson 13 89.2 4 8 3.81 51
Doug Waechter 11 53.0 1 4 6.62 25
Jason Hammel 9 44.0 0 6 7.77 32
J.P. Howell 8 42.1 1 3 5.10 33
Brian Stokes 5 24.0 1 0 4.88 15

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Seth McClung 39 103.0 6 12 6.29 59

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Tyler Walker 20 1 3 10 4.95 16
Shawn Camp 75 7 4 4 4.68 53
Ruddy Lugo 64 2 4 0 3.81 48
Brian Meadows 53 3 6 8 5.17 35
Jon Switzer 40 2 2 0 4.54 18
Dan Miceli 33 1 2 4 3.94 18
Chad Harville 32 0 2 1 5.93 30
Travis Harper 30 2 0 0 4.93 32
Edwin Jackson 23 0 0 0 5.45 27
Chad Orvella 22 1 5 0 7.40 17
Juan Salas 8 0 0 0 5.40 8
Scott Dunn 7 1 0 0 11.74 4
Jason Childers 5 0 1 0 4.70 5
Jesús Colomé 1 0 0 0 27.00 0

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Durham Bulls International League John Tamargo
AA Montgomery Biscuits Southern League Charlie Montoyo
A Visalia Oaks California League Joe Szekely
A Southwest Michigan Devil Rays Midwest League Skeeter Barnes
A-Short Season Hudson Valley Renegades New York–Penn League Matt Quatraro
Rookie Princeton Devil Rays Appalachian League Jamie Nelson

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Montgomery[10]

References

  1. ^ "2006 MLB Team Statistics". Baseball Reference. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "Pete LaForest Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com". Archived from the original on January 31, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-18.
  3. ^ Dewon Brazelton Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  4. ^ "Luis Rivas Stats".
  5. ^ a b Russell Branyan Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  6. ^ 2006 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Roster by Baseball Almanac
  7. ^ Baseball Draft: Rays 1st Round Picks in the June Draft - Baseball-Reference.com
  8. ^ Aubrey Huff Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  9. ^ 2006 Tampa Bay Devil Rays Statistics and Roster - Baseball-Reference.com
  10. ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007