Catcher Taylor Teagarden and infielder German Duran have been added to the Rangers roster. Left-handed reliever Bill White is in Arlington, but won't be added to the roster until Tuesday.
Another shiny one for the deputies. 12-6 Seattle, a hit batsman, bases loaded, an out, 20 hits allowed. Ah, I'd forgotten the endless late summers of all our dicontents, comrades. A Rangers fan in need of pitching. Let's hope were headed in the direction of a Ray. September is always the same. Here's to April!
Hey peeps, a little perspective for ya. Texas Rangers, that is the Law Enforcement Types are not Deputies. They are STATE TROOPERS who have become INVESTIGATORS. They are Investigators who thus have State wide jurisdiction. Deputies are associated with Sheriff's Departments and have County wide jurisdiction. Police Departments are local and have City jurisdiction. But i doth digress. Back to Baseball, 139 down with 23 to play. Could we go 4-19 the rest of the way and end up 71-91, a .439 winning percent? After last night i am going to say YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN! Sound familiar? We go through this every year, but we never have enough pitching to win. Now i am not saying trade away our young pitchers or prospects but surely we can find someone on the scrap heap ala Charlie Hough, anyone else remember that $10,000 waiver claim we made on him back in the late 80's? Probably the best investment on a pitcher we ever made other than the beef king himself. I want to keep Wash, i was wrong about the guy, but does anyone on here think he is going to get canned at the end or kept? At this point, i don't know. Anyone else see Washington's quote in the paper about playing Cruz everyday and letting him get comfortable to see what he can do? IS it just me or do we have to keep Bradley or what? I think that guy is the heart and soul of this team. What a hitter, but a kooky **** sapien evidently, but a great hitter. Are the Rangers really looking to trade Millwood and Padilla in the fall for some young pitching prospects? If Salty isn't hurt to bad and he catches 50 % of the games next year does that mean he will have 50 passed balls? Has Wallback gotten to him and told him how to block balls in the dirt? That that is part of his job description. Has he discovered that it is 50 ft to the backstop and there is no one back there to help him? Bobby Cox was grandstanding and wrong about Salty. He isn't ready to catch at the major leagues and i like Ramirez better. He is tough can take the hit and is better defensively than advertised. But it doesn't matter, the Rangers probably have someone down in the minors playing RF that is the future catcher??????? Hey how about some due for the CINCO who stood up and told you to go young. Everyone on here now is loving the youth movement, but there were only five who put their money where there mouth is, it is our only hope and it is EXCITING.
"who stood up and told you to go young" - Really? This again? What you were advocating wasn't a youth movement, it was simply bypassing the upper levels of the minors with any decent prospect (and some non-prospects) while selling off every veteran for peanuts and not signing any older players. What, in your twisted mind, you thought the Tigers had done. So what about team leader Milton Bradley? Where did he fit into Tigerplan? He didn't as I recall, but now you want him back. Which is it? You must get all the cardio you need from back-pedaling so much.
"If Salty isn't hurt to bad and he catches 50 % of the games next year does that mean he will have 50 passed balls?" - He has 8 passed balls in 101 career games at catcher, so I'm going to go with 'no.' By comparison Gerald Laird had his first 8 PBs in under 80 games. Salty's first 101 games at the position have yielded 12 errors and 8 passed balls, while the 119 games Laird caught last year while hitting like a pitcher totaled 11 errors and 9 passed balls.
So Salty is a better catcher than Laird? Give me a break! Or are you trying to say that Salty will be better than Laird once he has Laird's experience? Hey i want this team to go with the young players. The same ones that you thought weren't ready that are now producing, like Davis. I believe even Detroit had Sheffield, not a youngster. What i do believe i said and meant is develop a core pitching staff with our young pitchers taking a beating, along with our young position players, and when you get close you add the veterans you need.....Tigerplan is still what we should be following even though they struggled this year! I believe Verlander and Botterman struggled as pitchers and made it through. The chief thing i have said on here is to not trade our freaking young pitching prospects, Danks, Volquez, Young, Galarraga, and Tejada. I like Hamilton, but if he weren't producing a la all-star caliber, MVP type season Daniels would have been fired already......If he were hitting .245 with 10 homers and Volquez still did what he did it would be a done deal and still may be. Not saying it is right or wrong but PITCHING and Defense win Championships. Hypothetical: If you are a team that has consistently used 15 to 20 different pitchers in a season , wouldn't you want to hold onto as many of pitchers that you could? Why was Gallaraga discarded so easily? Tejeda?
“So Salty is a better catcher than Laird? Give me a break!” – I never said that. You were talking passed balls in terms of idiotic hyperbole, so I threw some real numbers out there. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
“The same ones that you thought weren't ready that are now producing, like Davis” – You were hollering for Davis to be here back in April/early May when he had about 200 at bats above A-ball. Show me an instance where the Tigers did that. Instead they waited until he had amassed 400 plus at bats in the upper minor leagues, dominating AAA, before deeming him ready. Exactly what did it hurt to let him see better pitching at AAA before calling him up? I’m betting you have no answer for that one as usual.
If I remember correctly you were calling for the ill-advised, premature call up of Elvis Andrus as well. Remember that? How about Emerson “mediocre in his second season at AA as a 25 year old” Frostad? Didn’t you say he was ready too?
“I believe Verlander and Botterman struggled as pitchers and made it through.” When, exactly did Verlander struggle? He had a 3.12 ERA after his first 12 big league starts and won Rookie of the year? Do you see what I mean when I say you talk out of your ***? Bonderman (I assume that’s who you meant) was rushed through the minors and now has a career ERA of 4.74 and a losing record. He had his one good season in 2006, but hey, at least he was a college pitcher. Is Jeremy Bonderman the kind of successful pitcher you’re looking for out of a college draftee? As a result of being rushed to the majors the Tigers had to sign him to a large extension at age 23 to prevent him from becoming a free agent after this year. How’s that extension looking with his ERA over 5 last year and having pitched in 12 games this season?
“I believe even Detroit had Sheffield, not a youngster” – That was after they won the World Series and ventured back into the familiar territory of mediocrity. You have no idea what Tigerplan meant when you first coined the term and you’re idea of what it was has gotten even more warped in the past several months. What you were saying back then was that they went with youngsters everywhere, getting rid of the veterans and one year stop gap types and that’s simply not what happened. Check their roster in the 2 year before winning the world series. Plenty of mediocre veterans who were no where to be found when they went to the World Series.
“Tigerplan is still what we should be following even though they struggled this year!” – They have one of the worst minor league systems in the game (that’s why they had room on their 40 man roster to take a chance on Galarraga), an aging lineup and a bloated payroll. Do those sound like keys to long term success too you?
"wouldn't you want to hold onto as many of pitchers that you could?" - Yes. Of course those of us who live in the real world know of the existence of the 40 man roster.
"4-19 the rest of the way......YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN!" D'god, you must be the only fan of any team, in any sport, in any era that positively relishes the prospect of a disasterous finish to the season. Put alongside your "I hope we lose another 10 straight" almost makes the cynic in me wonder if you have some of your hard earned State Trooper dollars riding on this. But no, I couldn't believe that of you. So what motivates you? Your cries of anguish clearly come from the heart, not the brain. So what troubles you, old friend? You can tell uncle Anthony.
While I'm on the subject of Mongolian yak breeding, have you folk read "The nob hill report" on Jamie Newberg's blog? Having a Giants writer talking about OUR prospects in that way is like coming home to find someone going through one's personal possessions. But it highlights one thing. When it comes to trading, we can't dictate what we give. Pity. But it's one of the hard facts of life, along with 40 man rosters and free agency. You reading this, d'god?
Deputy Dwag...the sad part of all of your postings is that you simultaneously think you're both funny and informative and in fact you achieve neither.
You whip around positions like a snake ...truthfully ... which is a word I doubt you recognize...you should keep a list of your positions so you don't get mixed up. (Your early season position on Saltalamchia is once example. ..now you've changed you mind... I remember in your youth movement rant you had Andrus up here to replace Young...(because he had lost a step) At least be consistent.
Your rant about pitching is pathetic...as we've all said before: It's done for goodness sake give it a rest and get a life. In the alternative talk to Uncle Anthony and tell him what troubles you.
In the long run you're an idiot though with statements like I hope those lose 10 straight and I hope they go 71/91. You loose all credibility man!
Think about this....maybe Jamie Newberg or Eleanor would like you better on their blogs since you dissed TR today. I seldom go to their blogs and I sure would appreciate you off this one.
I mis-typed when I wrote that the Tigers won the World Series. I should've said they won the AL Pennant.
Another shiny one for the deputies. 12-6 Seattle, a hit batsman, bases loaded, an out, 20 hits allowed. Ah, I'd forgotten the endless late summers of all our dicontents, comrades. A Rangers fan in need of pitching. Let's hope were headed in the direction of a Ray. September is always the same. Here's to April!
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Hey peeps, a little perspective for ya. Texas Rangers, that is the Law Enforcement Types are not Deputies. They are STATE TROOPERS who have become INVESTIGATORS. They are Investigators who thus have State wide jurisdiction. Deputies are associated with Sheriff's Departments and have County wide jurisdiction. Police Departments are local and have City jurisdiction. But i doth digress. Back to Baseball, 139 down with 23 to play. Could we go 4-19 the rest of the way and end up 71-91, a .439 winning percent? After last night i am going to say YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN! Sound familiar? We go through this every year, but we never have enough pitching to win. Now i am not saying trade away our young pitchers or prospects but surely we can find someone on the scrap heap ala Charlie Hough, anyone else remember that $10,000 waiver claim we made on him back in the late 80's? Probably the best investment on a pitcher we ever made other than the beef king himself. I want to keep Wash, i was wrong about the guy, but does anyone on here think he is going to get canned at the end or kept? At this point, i don't know. Anyone else see Washington's quote in the paper about playing Cruz everyday and letting him get comfortable to see what he can do? IS it just me or do we have to keep Bradley or what? I think that guy is the heart and soul of this team. What a hitter, but a kooky **** sapien evidently, but a great hitter. Are the Rangers really looking to trade Millwood and Padilla in the fall for some young pitching prospects? If Salty isn't hurt to bad and he catches 50 % of the games next year does that mean he will have 50 passed balls? Has Wallback gotten to him and told him how to block balls in the dirt? That that is part of his job description. Has he discovered that it is 50 ft to the backstop and there is no one back there to help him? Bobby Cox was grandstanding and wrong about Salty. He isn't ready to catch at the major leagues and i like Ramirez better. He is tough can take the hit and is better defensively than advertised. But it doesn't matter, the Rangers probably have someone down in the minors playing RF that is the future catcher??????? Hey how about some due for the CINCO who stood up and told you to go young. Everyone on here now is loving the youth movement, but there were only five who put their money where there mouth is, it is our only hope and it is EXCITING.
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"who stood up and told you to go young" - Really? This again? What you were advocating wasn't a youth movement, it was simply bypassing the upper levels of the minors with any decent prospect (and some non-prospects) while selling off every veteran for peanuts and not signing any older players. What, in your twisted mind, you thought the Tigers had done. So what about team leader Milton Bradley? Where did he fit into Tigerplan? He didn't as I recall, but now you want him back. Which is it? You must get all the cardio you need from back-pedaling so much.
"If Salty isn't hurt to bad and he catches 50 % of the games next year does that mean he will have 50 passed balls?" - He has 8 passed balls in 101 career games at catcher, so I'm going to go with 'no.' By comparison Gerald Laird had his first 8 PBs in under 80 games. Salty's first 101 games at the position have yielded 12 errors and 8 passed balls, while the 119 games Laird caught last year while hitting like a pitcher totaled 11 errors and 9 passed balls.
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So Salty is a better catcher than Laird? Give me a break! Or are you trying to say that Salty will be better than Laird once he has Laird's experience? Hey i want this team to go with the young players. The same ones that you thought weren't ready that are now producing, like Davis. I believe even Detroit had Sheffield, not a youngster. What i do believe i said and meant is develop a core pitching staff with our young pitchers taking a beating, along with our young position players, and when you get close you add the veterans you need.....Tigerplan is still what we should be following even though they struggled this year! I believe Verlander and Botterman struggled as pitchers and made it through. The chief thing i have said on here is to not trade our freaking young pitching prospects, Danks, Volquez, Young, Galarraga, and Tejada. I like Hamilton, but if he weren't producing a la all-star caliber, MVP type season Daniels would have been fired already......If he were hitting .245 with 10 homers and Volquez still did what he did it would be a done deal and still may be. Not saying it is right or wrong but PITCHING and Defense win Championships. Hypothetical: If you are a team that has consistently used 15 to 20 different pitchers in a season , wouldn't you want to hold onto as many of pitchers that you could? Why was Gallaraga discarded so easily? Tejeda?
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“So Salty is a better catcher than Laird? Give me a break!” – I never said that. You were talking passed balls in terms of idiotic hyperbole, so I threw some real numbers out there. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
“The same ones that you thought weren't ready that are now producing, like Davis” – You were hollering for Davis to be here back in April/early May when he had about 200 at bats above A-ball. Show me an instance where the Tigers did that. Instead they waited until he had amassed 400 plus at bats in the upper minor leagues, dominating AAA, before deeming him ready. Exactly what did it hurt to let him see better pitching at AAA before calling him up? I’m betting you have no answer for that one as usual.
If I remember correctly you were calling for the ill-advised, premature call up of Elvis Andrus as well. Remember that? How about Emerson “mediocre in his second season at AA as a 25 year old” Frostad? Didn’t you say he was ready too?
“I believe Verlander and Botterman struggled as pitchers and made it through.” When, exactly did Verlander struggle? He had a 3.12 ERA after his first 12 big league starts and won Rookie of the year? Do you see what I mean when I say you talk out of your ***? Bonderman (I assume that’s who you meant) was rushed through the minors and now has a career ERA of 4.74 and a losing record. He had his one good season in 2006, but hey, at least he was a college pitcher. Is Jeremy Bonderman the kind of successful pitcher you’re looking for out of a college draftee? As a result of being rushed to the majors the Tigers had to sign him to a large extension at age 23 to prevent him from becoming a free agent after this year. How’s that extension looking with his ERA over 5 last year and having pitched in 12 games this season?
“I believe even Detroit had Sheffield, not a youngster” – That was after they won the World Series and ventured back into the familiar territory of mediocrity. You have no idea what Tigerplan meant when you first coined the term and you’re idea of what it was has gotten even more warped in the past several months. What you were saying back then was that they went with youngsters everywhere, getting rid of the veterans and one year stop gap types and that’s simply not what happened. Check their roster in the 2 year before winning the world series. Plenty of mediocre veterans who were no where to be found when they went to the World Series.
“Tigerplan is still what we should be following even though they struggled this year!” – They have one of the worst minor league systems in the game (that’s why they had room on their 40 man roster to take a chance on Galarraga), an aging lineup and a bloated payroll. Do those sound like keys to long term success too you?
"wouldn't you want to hold onto as many of pitchers that you could?" - Yes. Of course those of us who live in the real world know of the existence of the 40 man roster.
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"4-19 the rest of the way......YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN!" D'god, you must be the only fan of any team, in any sport, in any era that positively relishes the prospect of a disasterous finish to the season. Put alongside your "I hope we lose another 10 straight" almost makes the cynic in me wonder if you have some of your hard earned State Trooper dollars riding on this. But no, I couldn't believe that of you. So what motivates you? Your cries of anguish clearly come from the heart, not the brain. So what troubles you, old friend? You can tell uncle Anthony.
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While I'm on the subject of Mongolian yak breeding, have you folk read "The nob hill report" on Jamie Newberg's blog? Having a Giants writer talking about OUR prospects in that way is like coming home to find someone going through one's personal possessions. But it highlights one thing. When it comes to trading, we can't dictate what we give. Pity. But it's one of the hard facts of life, along with 40 man rosters and free agency. You reading this, d'god?
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Deputy Dwag...the sad part of all of your postings is that you simultaneously think you're both funny and informative and in fact you achieve neither.
You whip around positions like a snake ...truthfully ... which is a word I doubt you recognize...you should keep a list of your positions so you don't get mixed up. (Your early season position on Saltalamchia is once example. ..now you've changed you mind... I remember in your youth movement rant you had Andrus up here to replace Young...(because he had lost a step) At least be consistent.
Your rant about pitching is pathetic...as we've all said before: It's done for goodness sake give it a rest and get a life. In the alternative talk to Uncle Anthony and tell him what troubles you.
In the long run you're an idiot though with statements like I hope those lose 10 straight and I hope they go 71/91. You loose all credibility man!
Think about this....maybe Jamie Newberg or Eleanor would like you better on their blogs since you dissed TR today. I seldom go to their blogs and I sure would appreciate you off this one.
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I mis-typed when I wrote that the Tigers won the World Series. I should've said they won the AL Pennant.
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