About Tampa Bay Rays Photomints and Coins
Christened as the Tampa Bay Rays by Stuart Sternberg in 2007, this new team of all star players was considered to create waves in the coming seasons. Their line-up of impressive new players included Matt Garza, Evan Longoria and Edwin Jackson who changed the team’s image with best stats ever in 2008.
2009 did not prove to be a lucky start when Evan Longoria was unable to play on account of an injury he had sustained. In his place the management put in Carlos Pena and he acted as a replacement and even participated in the 2009 Home Run Derby. Other players also showed their remarkable mettle, especially Carl Crawford who took a running dive up a wall to cut off a home run. This meant that baseball fans were clamoring for mementos of this amazing game by looking for
Carl Crawford 2009 All Star Game MVP 24KT Gold Coin Photomint.
By the time this great season ended the Tampa Bay Rays had lost the support of Carlos Pena due to a broken finger, traded Scott Kazmir for 2 players with the
California Angels and also traded their new player Akinori Iwamura with Jesse Chavez from the
Pittsburg Pirates, who was again traded for Rafael Soriano.
This bout of shuffling paid off and the team showed some good results in the 2010 season. One of the highlights of the season was a no-hitter by Matt Garza, the first ever no-hitter to be thrown by one of the players of the Tampa Bay Rays.