Week of June 3, 2013 (my birthday)
PUDGE RODRIGUEZ WAS ELECTED INTO THE TEXAS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME!
Since I can't embed the video see the link to see Profar's 2 run walk off homer to win the game yesterday Profar's Homer. Profar is just a superstar. Kinsler is about to come off the DL and that means one of two things,
1, Profar stays in Majors and gets VERY limited time. Maybe 2-3 days a week. There is nowhere to plug him in where he will be an offensive upgrade.
2. Send him back to AAA and allow him to get at bats while keeping him on reserve for other DL fatalities.
Unfortunately he IS major league ready, but his time is not now in this club. He is only 20. That's a good thing.
-Ogando is back. Ortiz was optioned rather than Kirkman being called down. Ortiz has options which can leave him in the organization. Kirkman would have to clear waivers in order to do that, and that wouldn't happen. So we keep a crappy pitcher.
-Scratch that, Ogando is not back. He has right shoulder inflammation this time is so he went back to the DL. Josh Lindblom was called up from AAA. He will get the start on Monday.
-The Rangers are questioning whether Ogando can handle the starting role with all the DL he has had. He has a great arm, but he's had much better success in the bullpen.
-Michael Kirkman has been put on the 15 day DL due to skin problems from cancer he had a year ago. They basically did this because he sucks. Nobody is sad.
-Kyle McCleellan has been called up to replace Kirkman. He has been plagued with injuries but the small sample of 9 innings in the minors he has pitched excellently.
The 130 million dollar pay roll of the Angels is being outplayed by the 25 million dollar payroll of the Astros. Boom Yeah! That's what you get for being greedy Angels.
The MLB draft (which I am so sad I am missing due to work and the fact that I don't have ESPN) is Thursday. More to come when it is over. Rangers have just over 6.5 million to spend. I haven't been reading up on prospects but it'll be all over the Ranger news when it happens. Rangers have the 23rd and 30th pick in the 1st round. Here are some guesses for the top 33. Top 33
Rangers sign Omarlin Lopez for $825,000 Stats on Omarlin Lopez
#23 went to RHP Alex Gonzalez Read about Alex Gonzalez
#30 went to SS Travis Demeritte Read about Travis Demeritte
The rest of the picks- Round 3-10
Biogenesis and MLB suspensions. It looks like it's going to happen. Tony Bosch the founder of Biogenesis is talking and admitting in some cases he administered PED's to players such as A-Rod, Ryan Braun and even Nellie Cruz of the Rangers just to name a few of 20 players. These players are suspected of not only taking PEDs but then lying that they took them- two offenses in MLB. Because of this, it is said they may face up to a 100 game suspension for the combination of the two faults. According to ESPN this is to happen in the "next couple of weeks."
I also think long term. These players may never reach the hall of fame due to their usage of PEDs. We have to remember the days of Mark McGuire and Sammie Sosa and the like being on hall of fame voting ballots and not making it last year. How many years will that go on. Should they be in the hall of fame? My opinion: Would they be just as good of a ball player without the PEDs? If so elect them in. Same with this new set of guys.
The Rangers are about to play 20 consecutive games of hard baseball. They will play eight series and 6-8 will have averages over .500. Ouch. This is where we see if our pitching is as good as the numbers say it is. Hey, we always have Yu.
MONDAY IS AN OFF DAY
Rangers vs. Red Sox (away)
4th-17-5 Ranger Lose-Divid Murphy our Right Fielder pitched. Enough Said
5th-4-3 Rangers Win- Ogando was back from the DL and pitched a good game. Andrus hit the game winning double off the wall, and Mooreland went out of a game due to hamstring tightness and onto the DL. With Beltre just coming back from his hamstring problems (and playing the rest of this road trip as the DH) this poses a first base problem. We don't have a first baseman in the ball club including AAA. Olt is our only option and he's been back in AAA after being on the DL for 5 games. I'm assuming they will call him up anyway, and I was wrong. They called up McGuinness instead. A rookie who is doing sub-par work at AAA.
6th-6-3 Rangers Lose in the bottom of the ninth. Go figure. David Ortiz hit a 3 run homer off Kirkman...again go figure. If you don't already know this, when the Rangers are tied going into the bottom of the ninth and they are pitching we will lose almost always.
Rangers vs. Blue Jays (away)
The blue jays suck, but quite honestly so do we lately. We are in desperate need of home and in bigger need to get healthy. We have:
-Lance Berkman who proved he can only DH after giving 1st base a try for old times sake.
-Mooreland on the DL (I would have never said I'd miss him, but he's putting up some big numbers,) with a rookie McGuinness taking his spot. Wait who?
-Beltre isn't in shape after his hamstring injury to play on the turf leaving Leury Garcia to take his spot. I like the young kid, but he is young, and is making mistakes.
-Ian Kinsler is on the DL-so there goes our run production....what we have of it.
-Kirkman can't do JACK and they keep letting him go try to throw the ball. When will they get a clue he just makes us lose.
-Colby Lewis it seems might never be back, and Harrison is out as well.
So Blue Jays bring on your terrible team and let's play some ball.
7th-6-1 Rangers Lose-Tepesch had a good game with a bad 6th inning. Tepesch hit the #9 batter before having to face the top of the line up which then scored four runs. Am I a repeat record saying our bats suck and provide no run-support for our pitchers who pitchers who are for the most part pitching their hearts out. On paper our bats are much better than this.
8th-4-3 Rangers Lose-This was the marathon game of the year. Two games all wrapped up into one running 18 innings in 5 hours and 26 minutes! Berkman played first and Soto caught (ugg). Ross Wolfe believe it or not held on to the game for 5 innings. The run that was scored was scored off of a base hit and a wild pickoff attempt to first. At that point I think everyone was glad for the game to just be over. Nobody wants to watch that much baseball in one day again. Thanks for the opportunity though.
9th-6-4 Rangers Win- Finally. What a rough road stretch. Grimm pitched into the 6th allowing a three run homer in the 2nd. The rangers hit some homers mixed in with some small ball in each of 5 innings in a row. Run production. I like it. Oh and Chris McGuinnes got his first hit in the majors...and RBI double.
Rangers up .5 games in AL West, Tied for 4th in MLB
PUDGE RODRIGUEZ WAS ELECTED INTO THE TEXAS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME!
Since I can't embed the video see the link to see Profar's 2 run walk off homer to win the game yesterday Profar's Homer. Profar is just a superstar. Kinsler is about to come off the DL and that means one of two things,
1, Profar stays in Majors and gets VERY limited time. Maybe 2-3 days a week. There is nowhere to plug him in where he will be an offensive upgrade.
2. Send him back to AAA and allow him to get at bats while keeping him on reserve for other DL fatalities.
Unfortunately he IS major league ready, but his time is not now in this club. He is only 20. That's a good thing.
-Ogando is back. Ortiz was optioned rather than Kirkman being called down. Ortiz has options which can leave him in the organization. Kirkman would have to clear waivers in order to do that, and that wouldn't happen. So we keep a crappy pitcher.
-Scratch that, Ogando is not back. He has right shoulder inflammation this time is so he went back to the DL. Josh Lindblom was called up from AAA. He will get the start on Monday.
-The Rangers are questioning whether Ogando can handle the starting role with all the DL he has had. He has a great arm, but he's had much better success in the bullpen.
-Michael Kirkman has been put on the 15 day DL due to skin problems from cancer he had a year ago. They basically did this because he sucks. Nobody is sad.
-Kyle McCleellan has been called up to replace Kirkman. He has been plagued with injuries but the small sample of 9 innings in the minors he has pitched excellently.
The 130 million dollar pay roll of the Angels is being outplayed by the 25 million dollar payroll of the Astros. Boom Yeah! That's what you get for being greedy Angels.
The MLB draft (which I am so sad I am missing due to work and the fact that I don't have ESPN) is Thursday. More to come when it is over. Rangers have just over 6.5 million to spend. I haven't been reading up on prospects but it'll be all over the Ranger news when it happens. Rangers have the 23rd and 30th pick in the 1st round. Here are some guesses for the top 33. Top 33
Rangers sign Omarlin Lopez for $825,000 Stats on Omarlin Lopez
#23 went to RHP Alex Gonzalez Read about Alex Gonzalez
#30 went to SS Travis Demeritte Read about Travis Demeritte
The rest of the picks- Round 3-10
Biogenesis and MLB suspensions. It looks like it's going to happen. Tony Bosch the founder of Biogenesis is talking and admitting in some cases he administered PED's to players such as A-Rod, Ryan Braun and even Nellie Cruz of the Rangers just to name a few of 20 players. These players are suspected of not only taking PEDs but then lying that they took them- two offenses in MLB. Because of this, it is said they may face up to a 100 game suspension for the combination of the two faults. According to ESPN this is to happen in the "next couple of weeks."
I also think long term. These players may never reach the hall of fame due to their usage of PEDs. We have to remember the days of Mark McGuire and Sammie Sosa and the like being on hall of fame voting ballots and not making it last year. How many years will that go on. Should they be in the hall of fame? My opinion: Would they be just as good of a ball player without the PEDs? If so elect them in. Same with this new set of guys.
The Rangers are about to play 20 consecutive games of hard baseball. They will play eight series and 6-8 will have averages over .500. Ouch. This is where we see if our pitching is as good as the numbers say it is. Hey, we always have Yu.
MONDAY IS AN OFF DAY
Rangers vs. Red Sox (away)
4th-17-5 Ranger Lose-Divid Murphy our Right Fielder pitched. Enough Said
5th-4-3 Rangers Win- Ogando was back from the DL and pitched a good game. Andrus hit the game winning double off the wall, and Mooreland went out of a game due to hamstring tightness and onto the DL. With Beltre just coming back from his hamstring problems (and playing the rest of this road trip as the DH) this poses a first base problem. We don't have a first baseman in the ball club including AAA. Olt is our only option and he's been back in AAA after being on the DL for 5 games. I'm assuming they will call him up anyway, and I was wrong. They called up McGuinness instead. A rookie who is doing sub-par work at AAA.
6th-6-3 Rangers Lose in the bottom of the ninth. Go figure. David Ortiz hit a 3 run homer off Kirkman...again go figure. If you don't already know this, when the Rangers are tied going into the bottom of the ninth and they are pitching we will lose almost always.
Rangers vs. Blue Jays (away)
The blue jays suck, but quite honestly so do we lately. We are in desperate need of home and in bigger need to get healthy. We have:
-Lance Berkman who proved he can only DH after giving 1st base a try for old times sake.
-Mooreland on the DL (I would have never said I'd miss him, but he's putting up some big numbers,) with a rookie McGuinness taking his spot. Wait who?
-Beltre isn't in shape after his hamstring injury to play on the turf leaving Leury Garcia to take his spot. I like the young kid, but he is young, and is making mistakes.
-Ian Kinsler is on the DL-so there goes our run production....what we have of it.
-Kirkman can't do JACK and they keep letting him go try to throw the ball. When will they get a clue he just makes us lose.
-Colby Lewis it seems might never be back, and Harrison is out as well.
So Blue Jays bring on your terrible team and let's play some ball.
7th-6-1 Rangers Lose-Tepesch had a good game with a bad 6th inning. Tepesch hit the #9 batter before having to face the top of the line up which then scored four runs. Am I a repeat record saying our bats suck and provide no run-support for our pitchers who pitchers who are for the most part pitching their hearts out. On paper our bats are much better than this.
8th-4-3 Rangers Lose-This was the marathon game of the year. Two games all wrapped up into one running 18 innings in 5 hours and 26 minutes! Berkman played first and Soto caught (ugg). Ross Wolfe believe it or not held on to the game for 5 innings. The run that was scored was scored off of a base hit and a wild pickoff attempt to first. At that point I think everyone was glad for the game to just be over. Nobody wants to watch that much baseball in one day again. Thanks for the opportunity though.
9th-6-4 Rangers Win- Finally. What a rough road stretch. Grimm pitched into the 6th allowing a three run homer in the 2nd. The rangers hit some homers mixed in with some small ball in each of 5 innings in a row. Run production. I like it. Oh and Chris McGuinnes got his first hit in the majors...and RBI double.
Rangers up .5 games in AL West, Tied for 4th in MLB
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