Series Thread: Three Games In The Windy City With The White Sox June30 - July 2

[saddles]

Let's see if we rebound or if we continue to slide towards being sellers at the deadline.

 

[saddles]

 

[saddles]

Nick Williams has been promoted in Philly. He had a line of .280/.328/.511 at AAA. Good luck to him.

 

[saddles]

I am looking forward to this kid's future with the Rangers.

 

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[BULLPEN FAILURE]

I believe we face former Rangers great and World Series hero Derek Holland on Saturday.

 

[saddles]

I disagree with Mr. Wilson here.

Rangers Reaction: Rebuild? Cut payroll? You might want to reconsider

The pro-rebuild crowd would likely be the first to complain at the length an MLB rebuild takes and probably wouldn’t go to watch a loser play.

Wrong. These fans were accused for years of blindly supporting a losing team. We don't need a major rebuild anyway. More like a retooling and taking advantage of a down year to trade some guys.

The notions of rebuilding and cutting payroll are the last acts of a desperate franchise. And, no matter how bumpy this season has been and no matter how much some might dislike the general manager, the Rangers have shown the past eight seasons that they shouldn’t be desperate.

I think he is wrong again. The media's favorite word to describe the idea of being proactive and making changes in baseball is "desperation" They love to throw that word out and accuse fans wanting clubs to take action as wanting acts of desperation.

The last 8 seasons have had 2 really good results. The past 5 seasons have been disappointing. It is time to stop doing things the way they have been done and try something different. That requires selling at the deadline. We got where we were in 2010 and 2011 by being sellers at previous deadlines.

 

[saddles]

I believe we face former Rangers great and World Series hero Derek Holland on Saturday.

Indeed we do. Derek has struggled in June after a very impressive start to the season. I wonder which Derek will be facing us.

 

[saddles]

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

I really think the lineup would benefit from Odor hitting 7th.

 

[saddles]

Dyson is the closer for the Giants for now while Melancon is on the DL.

 

[Nightcrawler]

Dyson is the closer for the Giants for now while Melancon is on the DL.

I feel bad for their fans. They will soon find out how frustrating it is to watch Dyson try to close a game.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Dyson is the closer for the Giants for now while Melancon is on the DL.

Man, how much more do those fans have to suffer?!?

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Good to see us start the series with our current ace.

 

[donaldson79]

I really think the lineup would benefit from Odor hitting 7th.

I really think he's about an iota's worth of avg of being sent to RR myself.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

I really think he's about an iota's worth of avg of being sent to RR myself.

I think Odor needs to be handled better than he's been, but I'm still against a demotion at this point.

 

[donaldson79]

I think Odor needs to be handled better than he's been

So it's the team's/managers problem he swings at everything? Not sure what you mean by "handled" and who does this handling?

 

[Nightcrawler]

Bases loaded, nobody outs, middle of the order


Seems like only the Rangers would come up empty handed in this situation. Odor definitely needs to be hitting lower in the line up or demoted to triple A

 

[donaldson79]

Good heavens. I believe Phelfrey had thrown 20 pitches** without recording an out, while the Rangers loaded the bases. Yet here we sit after 26 pitches and didn't score a run.

** make that 24 pitches

 

[DT LUNA]

Bases full no outs no runs. RISP continue