TEXAS BATTLES THE WEST COAST STARTING IN SEATTLE MAY 5,6,7

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

This from Choo.

On who the best fighter on the team is:

"Probably two guys here, Rougned Odor and Carlos Gomez. Gomez, he's my teammate but I've felt a lot of times whatever happens he's the first guy to charge the mound. Gomez is hard to control whenever that happens. There are like three or four people grabbing him he's such a strong guy."

My new avatar is from the other day when Choo himself looked ready to beat some ass as well.

 

[RevSader]

The implied hand gesture to the groin means to "suck it". Not sure about the brushing off of the arm.

brushing the haters off

 

[Bmurph]

brushing the haters off

I just grab my crotch and throw up the X

 

[donaldson79]

Y'all are gonna hate this I suspect.

Jared Sandler says our most likely trade partner, if we decide to move Darvish, is HOUSTON!

 

[saddles]

Y'all are gonna hate this I suspect.

Jared Sandler says our most likely trade partner, if we decide to move Darvish, is HOUSTON!

Yeah, I heard him say that. Fangraphs had an article yesterday mentioning the Yankees, Cubs and Astros as being possible trade partners. A lot can happen between now and then with injuries so I think it is really wide open at this point. If we do trade him I don't care who we trade him to as long as we have at least two teams bidding against each other to jack up the price.

 

[saddles]

Strained forearm for Paxton.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

Poll: Texas Rangers 2017 win total

 

[saddles]

Here is a link to a pretty good article about the new and improved Nick Martinez.

Quick Looks: Pivetta, Adleman, and Martinez | FanGraphs Fantasy Baseball

Martinez has been jumping up and down from Triple-A to the majors over the past four season with sub par results (5.1 K/9, 3.4 BB/9, and 4.37 ERA). Back in 2014, I wrote the following about him:


Looked overmatched, especially since the Rangers took away his curveball. He may have a future in the game, but it would be nice to see him spend some time in AA/AAA refining his game.


It has taken a few seasons to refine his game. This season, the 26-year-old righty has turned things around with a 6.9 K/9, 0.7 BB/9, 2.77 ERA, and his fastball is up about 2 mph from 2016. Here are my thoughts about his April 28th start against the Angels.


• Fastball: 92-95 mph, straight with release side run. He’s getting a decent number of swinging strikes with it (8.8%). His previous high was less than half this value (4.1%). The added velocity has helped.

Slider/Cutter: This is a new pitch and it is awesome. It has 12-6 movement at 90 mph. It acts like split-finger fastball/sinker. Brooksbaseball.net labels it as a cutter. The broadcast team called it a slider, probably because Martinez previously threw a slider. He can throw it for strikes. It generates swinging strikes (20.5%).

Curve: 80-81 mph, 12-6 curve. He should get some swing-and-misses on the pitch and called strikes. I wonder if he is telegraphing the pitch because he hasn’t generated a single swinging strike this season.

Change: 88 mph and straight. He ditched the pitch and only used it a couple times and both offerings were subpar. I don’t know if he didn’t have a feel for it this game or he plans on using it less with his new cutter. Historically, it has gotten average results (13.7% SwStr%).

He was a completely new pitcher in this start and I will be buying when possible. The improvements, increased velocity and a new “cutter”, move him up a grade, maybe two. He still needs to figure out how his change and curve fit with the other two plus pitches. Until then, buy now while he’s still available.

 

[saddles]

Here's a name from the past.


For some reason this made me think of other ex-Rangers OF who haven't done so well so I looked up Julio Borbon. He is playing in Mexico this year.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

 

[Kelleyman]

Paxton to the DL. Seattle pitching taking some tough hits too.

 

[Kelleyman]

Pretty awesome video, I know Profar had one recent real good game. I hope he can build some value up. Baseball is crazy.

 

[Bmurph]

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Evening, everyone. Let's Go Rangers!

 

[Nightcrawler]

Paxton to the DL. Seattle pitching taking some tough hits too.

A blow out win and Keuchel losing to the angels would be awesome tonight. Let's hold up our end of the bargain.

 

[DT LUNA]

Good hustle DDJ

 

[RevSader]

That ball is fair regardless of what they rule.

 

[romeo212000]

I'm honestly surprised that went our way.