Tuesday, March 12, 2013

First is the big news of Nolan Ryan losing his job. Well to water this way down what has happened is Nolan Ryan's position was taken away from him. He was Present of baseball operations and that job has been divvied up between Jon Daniels (President of General Operations) and Rick George (President of Business Operations. There are hundreds of articles out there but the bottom line is that the Daniel camp and the Ryan camp don't get along. They never have.

Ryan didn't want Darvish here and Daniels did.
Ryan wanted Oswalt and Daniels didn't.
Ryan wanted to keep CJ Wilson, Daniels didn't.

Daniels won each of those situations anyway. However it's a true test of someone who has played professional baseball vs. someone who graduated from an ivy league school. They really aren't supposed to understand each other. They have tolerated each other for the past three years while the club has been successful, but something has happened and the shift in jobs has occurred.

Ryan won't talk either. He did eventually make a statement, but all he really said was that the two sides were talking. That was it.


MEANWHILE ON THE FIELD

We currently only have 4 starters until Colby Lewis comes back in May. Until then we have to make do with what we have which isn't much. Martin Perez, Robbie Ross, Justin Grimm and a slew of others. Of them it was the thought that Perez would probably land the spot, and his spring pitching was great; helping his cause. Then a line drive hit him in the write and broke the bone leaving the Rangers without him for the next two months. Now we REALLY don't have a fifth starter.

So we go get Derek Lowe, a 40 year old guy whose "pitching style is good for inifield hitting and a home run friendly park." Just what we need.

That's it for this week. I leave you with one thought that had come out today:
The Cardinals are missing their shortstop due to injury and are in need of one badly. We have 2 fantastic ones. We are missing and end of the rotation guy. They have those. As sad as I would be to see Andrus go, could a trade be possible?