***Official Texas Rangers 2011 Thread*** (1 Viewer)

[Bogart]

4- straight day games coming up. Hopefully Josh doesn't stink it up now that's he's got his avg back over 300.

What, are they not able to turn the lights on in Detroit?Too soon??

 

[ctdub]

4- straight day games coming up. Hopefully Josh doesn't stink it up now that's he's got his avg back over 300.

What, are they not able to turn the lights on in Detroit?Too soon??

Actually according to Eric Nadal the lights are on... For a 1:05 game. Hmmmm.

 

[culdeus]

Verlander really struggling out there.

 

[Bogart]

Verlander really struggling out there.

Nice reverse jinx.

 

[culdeus]

Verlander really struggling out there.

Nice reverse jinx.

I'm not sure who botched the MM hit more, Rhads or Magglio.

 

[Bogart]

Verlander really struggling out there.

Nice reverse jinx.

I'm not sure who botched the MM hit more, Rhads or Magglio.

Rhads is terrrrible.Not sure I agree with the OSB pulling Ogando after only 79 pitches. Doesn't he earn the 8th there?

 

[ctdub]

Verlander really struggling out there.

Nice reverse jinx.

I'm not sure who botched the MM hit more, Rhads or Magglio.

Rhads is terrrrible.Not sure I agree with the OSB pulling Ogando after only 79 pitches. Doesn't he earn the 8th there?

Blister, apparently. I would have loved him getting a cg.

 

[Bogart]

Verlander really struggling out there.

Nice reverse jinx.

I'm not sure who botched the MM hit more, Rhads or Magglio.

Rhads is terrrrible.Not sure I agree with the OSB pulling Ogando after only 79 pitches. Doesn't he earn the 8th there?

Blister, apparently. I would have loved him getting a cg.

Ahh. Nolan, get the boy some pickle juice.

 

[culdeus]

Whenever you can intentionally walk the tying runner you do it?

 

[shadyridr]

Benched Ogando in my H2H league

 

[Disco Stu]

Yeah, I agree with the Ogando thinking right now. At least he has a slider. With Feliz you don't feel good about anything but the heater at this point.

They're probably both worth a shot in spring training though.

CJ, Colby, Hunter Harrison, Holland, Ogando... not terrible ridiculously awesome.

 

[shadyridr]

Whenever you can intentionally walk the tying runner you do it?

Girardiesque

 

[ctdub]

This is so much fun to watch. Not looking forward to when we settle into a normal win-loss pace.

 

[ctdub]

Interesting tweet from Evan Grant.

In 10 games this season, Rangers have faced (and beaten) 2010 Cy Young winner, No. 4 vote getter (Lester) and No. 11 (Verlander).

 

[Bogart]

This is so much fun to watch. Not looking forward to when we settle into a normal win-loss pace.

 

[culdeus]

So what do they do with Hunter? Hurley is supposed to track to the pen by June right?

 

[the moops]

How good is Ogando?

 

[Bogart]

How good is Ogando?

Will say small sample size and we don't know yet, but he had great numbers last year in relief and is really electric out there on the mound. Doing my best to not overreact to the back end of this rotation.

 

[ctdub]

So what do they do with Hunter? Hurley is supposed to track to the pen by June right?

Would be a good problem to have in June. Realistically, someone will get dinged up and/or 1 or more of the starting 5 will lose consitency. Hopefully the reverse jinx works here....

 

[ctdub]

How good is Ogando?

He is good, but his 13 innings this year have come against the 7th and 12th ranked hitting teams in the AL. He also has an amazing defense behind him that has been worth a couple points off his ERA so far...Not to take anything away from what he has done so far...

 

[Bamboo Bill]

Benched Ogando in my H2H league

thanks for the update.

 

[culdeus]

Need a big outing today to save the bullpen-o-rama on Wednesday. Lewis is staying home with his new baby.

 

[Bogart]

Need a big outing today to save the bullpen-o-rama on Wednesday. Lewis is staying home with his new baby.

Sounds like Lewis was going to be skipped anyway because of the rainout/doubleheader, but yeah, 8 strong from CJ would go a long way to helping tomorrow. Wednesday will be a very interesting game to watch. Does the OSB pull some starters for rest, conceding the game from the beginning?

 

[Bogart]

Kinsler with the day off today. Andrus leading off. Young to play second and hit second. Cruz moves up to the five hole. Hamilton to DH and Murphy takes his spot in the field.

Flexability. Can't say it enough.

 

[whoknew]

Kinsler with the day off today. Andrus leading off. Young to play second and hit second. Cruz moves up to the five hole. Hamilton to DH and Murphy takes his spot in the field.Flexability. Can't say it enough.

What do you mean move Cruz up to the fifth spot? Where does he normally hit?Why in the world would anyone give Michael Young and Adrian Beltre more ABs than Nellie Cruz?

 

[culdeus]

Kinsler with the day off today. Andrus leading off. Young to play second and hit second. Cruz moves up to the five hole. Hamilton to DH and Murphy takes his spot in the field.Flexability. Can't say it enough.

Thanks for getting Josh's shoulder injured. jerk

 

[Bogart]

Kinsler with the day off today. Andrus leading off. Young to play second and hit second. Cruz moves up to the five hole. Hamilton to DH and Murphy takes his spot in the field.Flexability. Can't say it enough.

What do you mean move Cruz up to the fifth spot? Where does he normally hit?Why in the world would anyone give Michael Young and Adrian Beltre more ABs than Nellie Cruz?

Young has been hitting in the five spot ahead of Cruz. Sounds strange, but I am not questioning the 9-1 OSB right now.UPDATE: Hamilton out of the game with a strained shoulder. Was scheduled to have an off day tomorrow and the travel day off on Thursday, so will have to see how he is come Friday in NY.

 

[Bogart]

Kinsler with the day off today. Andrus leading off. Young to play second and hit second. Cruz moves up to the five hole. Hamilton to DH and Murphy takes his spot in the field.Flexability. Can't say it enough.

Thanks for getting Josh's shoulder injured. jerk

 

[Bogart]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

 

[RnR]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

That's on the 3B coach, Bogie. Never make the first out at 3rd. Never ever ever.

 

[Bogart]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

That's on the 3B coach, Bogie. Never make the first out at 3rd. Never ever ever.

Agreed. I placed the wrong blame.I wonder if the coach made the same call on Hamilton's try for home or if that was on Hamilton. OSB loves to apply the pressure, and most of the time it works, guess I can't ##### too much on days it doesn't.

 

[culdeus]

Borbon = Fail

 

[Bogart]

Losing sucks. I don't like this.

 

[coolnerd]

Kinsler with the day off today. Andrus leading off. Young to play second and hit second. Cruz moves up to the five hole. Hamilton to DH and Murphy takes his spot in the field.Flexability. Can't say it enough.

What do you mean move Cruz up to the fifth spot? Where does he normally hit?Why in the world would anyone give Michael Young and Adrian Beltre more ABs than Nellie Cruz?

Young has been hitting in the five spot ahead of Cruz. Sounds strange, but I am not questioning the 9-1 OSB right now.UPDATE: Hamilton out of the game with a strained shoulder. Was scheduled to have an off day tomorrow and the travel day off on Thursday, so will have to see how he is come Friday in NY.

Not even two weeks in we are already having Hamilton injury watch?

 

[Bogart]

Josh heard two pops in shoulder. Shoulder is in sling, but NOT dislocated.

 

[Bogart]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

That's on the 3B coach, Bogie. Never make the first out at 3rd. Never ever ever.

Agreed. I placed the wrong blame.I wonder if the coach made the same call on Hamilton's try for home or if that was on Hamilton. OSB loves to apply the pressure, and most of the time it works, guess I can't ##### too much on days it doesn't.

Hamilton said 3B coach sent him home. He didn't want to go. Injured shoulder on that slide.Oops.

 

[igbomb]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

That's on the 3B coach, Bogie. Never make the first out at 3rd. Never ever ever.

Agreed. I placed the wrong blame.I wonder if the coach made the same call on Hamilton's try for home or if that was on Hamilton. OSB loves to apply the pressure, and most of the time it works, guess I can't ##### too much on days it doesn't.

Hamilton said 3B coach sent him home. He didn't want to go. Injured shoulder on that slide.Oops.

Classy move by Hamilton, throwing his coach under the bus. If you don't like the call, tell him in private. Don't tell the media that you didn't want to go.

 

[ctdub]

NYC expecting rain this weekend.

 

[Dr. Awesome]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

That's on the 3B coach, Bogie. Never make the first out at 3rd. Never ever ever.

Agreed. I placed the wrong blame.I wonder if the coach made the same call on Hamilton's try for home or if that was on Hamilton. OSB loves to apply the pressure, and most of the time it works, guess I can't ##### too much on days it doesn't.

Hamilton said 3B coach sent him home. He didn't want to go. Injured shoulder on that slide.Oops.

Classy move by Hamilton, throwing his coach under the bus. If you don't like the call, tell him in private. Don't tell the media that you didn't want to go.

I first heard a clip of him questioning things and didn't think it was a big deal. Then I heard the whole things. Bad move to throw coach under the bus.

 

[Limp Ditka]

I like aggressive base running. But Beltre has to know better than that. Take your double and let Cruz and company drive you in.

That's on the 3B coach, Bogie. Never make the first out at 3rd. Never ever ever.

Agreed. I placed the wrong blame.I wonder if the coach made the same call on Hamilton's try for home or if that was on Hamilton. OSB loves to apply the pressure, and most of the time it works, guess I can't ##### too much on days it doesn't.

Hamilton said 3B coach sent him home. He didn't want to go. Injured shoulder on that slide.Oops.

Classy move by Hamilton, throwing his coach under the bus. If you don't like the call, tell him in private. Don't tell the media that you didn't want to go.

I first heard a clip of him questioning things and didn't think it was a big deal. Then I heard the whole things. Bad move to throw coach under the bus.

Kind of where the guy belongs, isn't it?

 

[Dr. Awesome]

Who, the coach? I don't think so. It was a freak injury. No way Hamilton thought that might happen.

 

[Bogart]

Horrible incident. Sucks that it happened. But if we are due for one of these a year from Josh, let's get it over with.

Murphy will be an adequate replacement. Chris Davis comes up to show his wares. Maybe he is a trade chip if he hits well.

 

[culdeus]

Horrible incident. Sucks that it happened. But if we are due for one of these a year from Josh, let's get it over with.Murphy will be an adequate replacement. Chris Davis comes up to show his wares. Maybe he is a trade chip if he hits well.

If this goes wrong I'm still holding you accountable.

 

[Bogart]

Horrible incident. Sucks that it happened. But if we are due for one of these a year from Josh, let's get it over with.Murphy will be an adequate replacement. Chris Davis comes up to show his wares. Maybe he is a trade chip if he hits well.

If this goes wrong I'm still holding you accountable.

Trust me, if this goes wrong....no funeral.I blame myself. I banned myself from this board last season, and you saw what happened.

 

[Bogart]

Dave Bush made it through three innings without giving up any runs, which is hard to do putting 6 guys on. Now for the great Mason Tobin.

These kind of bullpen only games drive me insane.

Someone tell Lewis to plan better next time before knocking his wife up. Do the math and have the kid in December.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Borbon just fell for the ole fake to third throw to first pickoff

 

[culdeus]

I can't see Lowe making the rest of this trip. Give him a few weeks in AAA and one more shot and GTFO.

 

[ctdub]

I can't see Lowe making the rest of this trip. Give him a few weeks in AAA and one more shot and GTFO.

The guy is a giant turd on the mound.

 

[Bogart]

This team sucks.

 

[Bogart]

When was the last time Texas could go into Yankee Stadium and feel good about the number three, four and five starters going?