Rays' Chandler Simpson is a nightmare for opposing teams for 2 reasons
This is a very fun development for the Rays.
Rays' Chandler Simpson is a nightmare for opposing teams for 2 reasons originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Tampa Bay Rays , in a very competitive AL East, need a few things to go their way if they want to win the division, or even sneak into the postseason.
And one of those things would be the breakout of a player other than Junior Caminero, and that looks to be the case with Chandler Simpson. Zachary D. Rymer of Bleacher Report highlighted two reasons why Simpson is becoming a nightmare for opposing teams.
Beyond the obvious with his speed, his contact ability is proving to make for a deadly combination this season. Rays' Chandler Simpson is becoming a nightmare 1. Simpson can fly around the basepaths "Lest there be any doubt that Simpson is the fastest in MLB, he's the only one who takes less than 4.
16 seconds to get from home to first. And he does it in 3. 95 seconds," Rymer writes.