They also recorded the original version of "Daddy Cool", which was used as part of a medley with Little Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" for U.K. band Darts which made the U.K charts (#6) in 1977.
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Iwamura was the second player that the Rays had been able to obtain through the posting system; in 2005, they won the rights to negotiate with pitcher Shinji Mori.
In April 2011, The Boston Globe reported that two evaluators in major league baseball opined that the Rays may explore a trade for Upton.
On November 28, 2007, the Rays traded Harris (along with Jason Pridie and Delmon Young) to the Minnesota Twins for Matt Garza, Jason Bartlett, and Eduardo Morlan.
The Rays hosted the Melbourne Rebels in the inaugural ARC Grand Final, after coming from behind against the Perth Spirit in their semi-final, winning 27 to 19.
In April 2008, the Rays moved another series, this time against the Toronto Blue Jays, to Orlando.
Weeks after the Marlins concluded a characteristic fire sale that brought in less expensive players such as Yunel Escobar from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Marlins traded Escobar to the Rays for minor leaguer Derek Dietrich.
The Rays returned to the Gulf Coast League for the first time since the 1998 season, when they were known as the Gulf Coast Devil Rays.
Eight days later, the Rays traded Pridie along with Delmon Young and Brendan Harris to the Minnesota Twins for Matt Garza, Jason Bartlett, and Eduardo Morlan.
In the 2011 offseason the Rays signed former Red Sox teammates Manny Ramirez and Johnny Damon.
He was drafted by the Rays in the first round (31st overall) of the 2011 MLB Draft with a compensation pick from the New York Yankees gained when the Yankees signed Rafael Soriano.
Then, to allow the city to forgo paying property taxes on the site (a loophole in Florida laws allows county governments to own stadiums tax-free), a long-term lease would have been signed by the Rays and Pinellas County would then take control of the site, a similar arrangement to that of Tropicana Field.