While we all sit and dwell on the on going will we or won't we .. are we buyer or sellers konundrum, i decided its just as important to understand where the rest of the our rivals sit at with aquistions to make themselves better.
They actually seem to both be in the running for starting pitching although i have yet to see their team names attached to same player.
The Angles are looking for simply another bat to put into their line up along with an elite starting pitcher. Speaking in the Roy Halladay/ Jake Peavy range. I have to say atleast their going for it.
Wereas Texas can't really decide if their going for a starting pitcher to add to their rotation which in my opnion they really need or some solid relief pitching which i dont think could hurt. They are currently still wondering if El Duque has anything in the tank and if he is enough of a signing to put them over the top. im here to say no... thanks for playing
Ironicly thats all the Mariners have and they really need an additional left handed infielder with a stick. So, it makes you wonder what would have should these teams not be competing against eachother.
Players on the Angles watch list...
Jake Peavy has been rumored to be someone that the front office is listening to see if they can put together the "right deal" ... what this means is they don't really want to give up the asking price of prospects because they are getting .... well old. bottomline they need to get younger and trading away their tommorrow for one last shot seems foolish and they realize it. The only question they have to ask them selves... have we put together a team that can win a championship... i don't think so.
Along the same lines of Peavy they also seem to be interested in Dan Haren, and yet again why not. he's a great pitcher or record only reflects the lack of run support he is getting. i dont think they will give up the asking price yet again. which means they will keep searching or settle on the team they have
Matt Holiday has been rumored to be an interest either prior to the trade deadline or even afterwards in the off season. I LOVE THIS MOVE... you may ask why? BECAUSE, he is no where near his past potential in colorado. Holiday while being an above average player is NOT vald guerrero the second. he isn't and as soon as the rest of MLB catches up he'll be way over paid and won't be any help to a ball club. PLEASE MAKE THIS DEAL
Cinncinati Reds - there has been talk about them switching strengths for weaknesses ... gary matthews jr. for a bullpen arm.
Players not on the Angles watch list...
Pedro Marintez - why oh why would you not be interested ... he is a free agent that showed his competative edge back in march. WHY?
Player on the Rangers watch list...
Ben Sheets - this guy will be ready September, he a free-agent .. why not?
Pedro Martinez - they wont pay more than mini for him... probley wont happen but i like the effort...
Players not on the Rangers watch list...
NOBODY THEY NEED PITCHING HELP!
clearly they arnt both huge buyers ... i suspect that there maybe more people they are interested this is just who i found in about an hour and a half of research. I would think that there maybe alot of action that goes on right arounde july 29-31
Showing posts with label texas rangers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label texas rangers. Show all posts
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
I know i know, they said it on the site but Fangraphs released it's "first half" UZR stats and i was actually really shocked... to read the article click here
Okay ... i knew the Rangers had a good team and they've had a good year and all but wow....i expected us to be ahead of everyone in the west... Just blew me away and thought i'd share
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Move Along
So yes, it has been 5 days since my last post.
No, i havn't been hiding in a shell until the mariners broke their horrible losing streak. I actually didn't get to see about half the games and couldn't really commit about most of what was going on besides the fact they couldn't hit a lick!
Jason Vargas going against the rangers and as dave cameron from USS Mariner said "If Vargas can get through six innings and allow four runs or less, he should be congratulated." I'll go a step further and say that he should probley have a party thrown for him. He's a god a huge step ahead of him with Josh Hamilton possibly being back in the line-up.
Dustin Ackley is back in CF for UNC showing his range and athletiscim. As was said on othersites this just further goes to push him to the #2 spot. I am getting excited to hear that.
With Silva, RR-S out ..if another pitcher goes down i suppose that leaves Garret Olson a rotation spot, but i'm really not excited about our future rotation at this point. I realize the organization is in transition but at this point there arn't alot of great SP prospects in the system outside of A-Ball. could be a upcoming blog,
speaking of upcoming blogs i do have one about star trek and baseball incoming. just alittle background for what has made me obsessed about it as much as i am.
So uh with both Celtics-Magic and Lakers-Rockets sitting all tied up i gotta make a quick snippet about this. I think that the Celtics are deep enough to take magic 7 and POSSIBLY win, but i don't see them beating the cav's. Not with the injuries they have had. Magic have the team to beat cleveland we'll see what happens. OH, and speaking of Cleveland. How about that trade last year where Sonics traded Delonte West to the Cavs. Delonte West is showing to be such a great solid player. I'm really amazed by his over all speed and quickness. AMAZING. On the west coast. I think the Rockets can tottally take the Lakers down. I would never could out Ron-Ron and Shane Battier. Such a great deffensive team.
Outside of that not alot going on... i won my Fantasy Game last week. moving me to tied for #1 spot in my division at 3-2 and i'm taking on Hayden this week. Time for some payback....
No, i havn't been hiding in a shell until the mariners broke their horrible losing streak. I actually didn't get to see about half the games and couldn't really commit about most of what was going on besides the fact they couldn't hit a lick!
Jason Vargas going against the rangers and as dave cameron from USS Mariner said "If Vargas can get through six innings and allow four runs or less, he should be congratulated." I'll go a step further and say that he should probley have a party thrown for him. He's a god a huge step ahead of him with Josh Hamilton possibly being back in the line-up.
Dustin Ackley is back in CF for UNC showing his range and athletiscim. As was said on othersites this just further goes to push him to the #2 spot. I am getting excited to hear that.
With Silva, RR-S out ..if another pitcher goes down i suppose that leaves Garret Olson a rotation spot, but i'm really not excited about our future rotation at this point. I realize the organization is in transition but at this point there arn't alot of great SP prospects in the system outside of A-Ball. could be a upcoming blog,
speaking of upcoming blogs i do have one about star trek and baseball incoming. just alittle background for what has made me obsessed about it as much as i am.
So uh with both Celtics-Magic and Lakers-Rockets sitting all tied up i gotta make a quick snippet about this. I think that the Celtics are deep enough to take magic 7 and POSSIBLY win, but i don't see them beating the cav's. Not with the injuries they have had. Magic have the team to beat cleveland we'll see what happens. OH, and speaking of Cleveland. How about that trade last year where Sonics traded Delonte West to the Cavs. Delonte West is showing to be such a great solid player. I'm really amazed by his over all speed and quickness. AMAZING. On the west coast. I think the Rockets can tottally take the Lakers down. I would never could out Ron-Ron and Shane Battier. Such a great deffensive team.
Outside of that not alot going on... i won my Fantasy Game last week. moving me to tied for #1 spot in my division at 3-2 and i'm taking on Hayden this week. Time for some payback....
Monday, May 4, 2009
Runaway
So ... it's 11:47 ... it's time for bed. I obviously have work tommorrow and i need to be up at 6 am .. but there is no way .. NO WAY after that game.
First of all let me say that Kevin Millwood PITCHED HIS HEART OUT! Very much like Jarrod Washburn i don't believe he will maintain his ability to pitch the way he has the first month of April and now a week into May. I just don't think it's possible for him to play at a level this high over a sustained period of time. It's not a knock on the pitchers it's just reference of their talent levels.
Regardless of weather or not he'll eventuall regress, he pitched like an Ace tonight and i'm throughly impressed. He was one of my orignal top 5's and i was initially pretty amazed, but now i'm flabberghasted. CJ "Rick Vaugn" Wilson pitched well to Russ Branyan (who is continued to hit the cover off the ball)
The pitching between frankie and the seattle batters was awesome. Just a game of cat and mouse.
However... the game of cat and mouse WAS RUINED... ABSLOUTELY RUINED!!!! BY PAUL EMMELL the FIRST BASE UMPIRE.
Now i watched and reviewed the call FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES FROM FOUR DIFFERENT ANGLES...Davis(who is a great defensive firstbasemen) DID NOT ... i repeat that DID NOT HAVE HIS FOOT ON THE BASE. IT WASNT TOUCHING IT .. it came off to make the catch ... the catch didn't even beat the runner.
NOW, please do NOT, misunderstand what i'm saying. Because i realize i'm going to have an influx of texas ranger fans to my site shortly to spew their crazy non-sense like greffity let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR.
Andrus made AN INCREADABLE PLAY ... AMAZING STOP.... GREAT THROW...
Davis showed GREAT AWESOME WONDERFUL RANGE to make that catch.
Here is where the point is ... the throw DID NOT.. beat the runner... the firstbasemen's foot... WAS NOT on the bag. Johjima was safe.
It takes alot of Wak to come out of the dug out and argue the call. I am not sure if it's allowed but i wish we could have had a home plate appeal. I know they allow it in High School play but i'm not sure how it goes down in the Majors and that in and of itself is a huge diss if another umpire over rules you on your own bag during an MLB game.
My point to this run away blog is that a beautifully battled, wonderfully played, ball game but two amazing clubs was ruined by Paul Emmel when he made a snap decision and did not even pay attention to the play.
If joh was safe and not out... runner on first... Gutz looper down the right field line is suddenly HUGE .. because it would have taken joh to third. now with 1st and 3rd and yuni at bat with only one away. if he STILL walks yuni (which let me say THAT was the first time i've seen him take TWO pitches in a row EVER in a game), now ichiro comes to hit with the bases loaded. That line fly out to Byrd brings home Joh and we have a tied up ball game.
Now again time for clairfication i'm not saying we lost because of that one call. Felix pitched very poorly and texas capitlized off several mistakes that King Felix left up in the zone and that happens. he still struck out 9 of 18 outs.. which is awesome and the bull pen was solid for the three innings they were there. I am tottally a fan of Denny Stark and i'm loving his pitching right now.
I really feel we had a chance to do some damage and chase millwood from the game there in the fifth and we rolled over and let him work his way out of it. we swung at bad pitches and he came out attacking hitters. i don't remember him starting off very many counts 1-0. he was just pounding the strike zone tonight and it worked out very well for him tonight. Overall, we had some oppertunities that we didn't cultivate and in the end we lost because of it.
I just hated to see such a wonderfully matched game end the way it did....
Thanks alot, Paul Emmel
First of all let me say that Kevin Millwood PITCHED HIS HEART OUT! Very much like Jarrod Washburn i don't believe he will maintain his ability to pitch the way he has the first month of April and now a week into May. I just don't think it's possible for him to play at a level this high over a sustained period of time. It's not a knock on the pitchers it's just reference of their talent levels.
Regardless of weather or not he'll eventuall regress, he pitched like an Ace tonight and i'm throughly impressed. He was one of my orignal top 5's and i was initially pretty amazed, but now i'm flabberghasted. CJ "Rick Vaugn" Wilson pitched well to Russ Branyan (who is continued to hit the cover off the ball)
The pitching between frankie and the seattle batters was awesome. Just a game of cat and mouse.
However... the game of cat and mouse WAS RUINED... ABSLOUTELY RUINED!!!! BY PAUL EMMELL the FIRST BASE UMPIRE.
Now i watched and reviewed the call FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES FROM FOUR DIFFERENT ANGLES...Davis(who is a great defensive firstbasemen) DID NOT ... i repeat that DID NOT HAVE HIS FOOT ON THE BASE. IT WASNT TOUCHING IT .. it came off to make the catch ... the catch didn't even beat the runner.
NOW, please do NOT, misunderstand what i'm saying. Because i realize i'm going to have an influx of texas ranger fans to my site shortly to spew their crazy non-sense like greffity let me make this PERFECTLY CLEAR.
Andrus made AN INCREADABLE PLAY ... AMAZING STOP.... GREAT THROW...
Davis showed GREAT AWESOME WONDERFUL RANGE to make that catch.
Here is where the point is ... the throw DID NOT.. beat the runner... the firstbasemen's foot... WAS NOT on the bag. Johjima was safe.
It takes alot of Wak to come out of the dug out and argue the call. I am not sure if it's allowed but i wish we could have had a home plate appeal. I know they allow it in High School play but i'm not sure how it goes down in the Majors and that in and of itself is a huge diss if another umpire over rules you on your own bag during an MLB game.
My point to this run away blog is that a beautifully battled, wonderfully played, ball game but two amazing clubs was ruined by Paul Emmel when he made a snap decision and did not even pay attention to the play.
If joh was safe and not out... runner on first... Gutz looper down the right field line is suddenly HUGE .. because it would have taken joh to third. now with 1st and 3rd and yuni at bat with only one away. if he STILL walks yuni (which let me say THAT was the first time i've seen him take TWO pitches in a row EVER in a game), now ichiro comes to hit with the bases loaded. That line fly out to Byrd brings home Joh and we have a tied up ball game.
Now again time for clairfication i'm not saying we lost because of that one call. Felix pitched very poorly and texas capitlized off several mistakes that King Felix left up in the zone and that happens. he still struck out 9 of 18 outs.. which is awesome and the bull pen was solid for the three innings they were there. I am tottally a fan of Denny Stark and i'm loving his pitching right now.
I really feel we had a chance to do some damage and chase millwood from the game there in the fifth and we rolled over and let him work his way out of it. we swung at bad pitches and he came out attacking hitters. i don't remember him starting off very many counts 1-0. he was just pounding the strike zone tonight and it worked out very well for him tonight. Overall, we had some oppertunities that we didn't cultivate and in the end we lost because of it.
I just hated to see such a wonderfully matched game end the way it did....
Thanks alot, Paul Emmel
The Kingdom... (not kingdome..)
HAPPY KING FELIX DAY!!!!
Mariners vs. Rangers, Felix vs. Millwood.
Brother vs. Brother
For those of you that don't know .. My little brother (hayden) is a huge Rangers fan.
For other people that don't really know ME .. i'm a huge mariner fans...
The divison is up for grabs this year and with a 2 game series looming and the rangers only 2.5 games behind this could very well make for an intersting couple of days.
Mariners vs. Rangers, Felix vs. Millwood.
Brother vs. Brother
For those of you that don't know .. My little brother (hayden) is a huge Rangers fan.
For other people that don't really know ME .. i'm a huge mariner fans...
The divison is up for grabs this year and with a 2 game series looming and the rangers only 2.5 games behind this could very well make for an intersting couple of days.
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