Official Season Thread - 2013 Edition

[Xx srs bsns xX]

So to start out the season, Ross & Kirkman are going to start out the season as the setup men... eh? Course, it will be the Astros that they are facing.

Ron Washington pegs Robbie Ross, Michael Kirkman as Texas Rangers? setup men ?out of the chute? | Texas Rangers Blog


Ogando will pitch the 3rd game against the Astros & Holland get the Opening Day @ the Ballpark nod.

4 days everybody. 4 days.

 

[Windingmywatch]

So to start out the season, Ross & Kirkman are going to start out the season as the setup men... eh? Course, it will be the Astros that they are facing.

Ron Washington pegs Robbie Ross, Michael Kirkman as Texas Rangers? setup men ?out of the chute? | Texas Rangers Blog


Ogando will pitch the 3rd game against the Astros & Holland get the Opening Day @ the Ballpark nod.

4 days everybody. 4 days.

Who would you suggest as setup at this point given that as far as I know the final 2 bullpen spots are still open?

 

[Al Falfa]

Who would you suggest as setup at this point given that as far as I know the final 2 bullpen spots are still open?

I look for Tanner Sheppers to get a little work in the set up roll.

 

[Windingmywatch]

I look for Tanner Sheppers to get a little work in the set up roll.

Until Soria arrives I imagine it's going to be a little bit of setup by committee.

 

[bone3421]

LETS GET IT ON..............


fuck the angels

 

[Al Falfa]

LETS GET IT ON..............


fuck the angels

FTA

 

[Al Falfa]

Until Soria arrives I imagine it's going to be a little bit of setup by committee.

Even after he gets here it will probably be whoever has the hot hand. A guy coming off a years worth of DL will need some time to get his feet on the ground.

 

[romeo212000]

Ortiz made the team. Good for him. He deserved it.

 

[Windingmywatch]

Ortiz made the team. Good for him. He deserved it.

Yea! So much for those (like TR) who said there could only be two LHPin the bullpen.

 

[jta4437]

Ortiz made the team. Good for him. He deserved it.

Awesome, great to see an obscure guy I've been following since he was 17 make the team

 

[bone3421]

2013 forecast -- Texas Rangers should be in wild-card hunt - ESPN Dallas
i say we go 94-68

some interesting tidbits i saw in the espn preview....

june we only have 2 days off and play 10 day games (dont have to worry about joshs eyes anymore)

august we have every thursday off with 3 of them being at home and only have 10 games at home (heat not gonna be a big factor in august/well rested for stretchrun??)

sept. we play 10 of 17 at home including the final 7...3 astro's and final 4 against angels

....im ready lets go

 

[fordman84]

Man, I just don't see it with the Angels. Texas has tried to go the route of just out hitting everyone, and it didn't work.

 

[jta4437]

Man, I just don't see it with the Angels. Texas has tried to go the route of just out hitting everyone, and it didn't work.

I agree Weaver is overrated, but they have solid guys slotted behind him, its not like they are garbage; Wilson, Hanson, Vargas and Blanton, with Williams and Richards being serviceable injury options

And Freiri, Madson, Downs, Burnett and Jepsen are pretty solid bullpen guys

Do I think the the media overrates them? Absolutely, but I also think many people here want to underrate them b/c of last year, which is a mistake

 

[Windingmywatch]

Man, I just don't see it with the Angels. Texas has tried to go the route of just out hitting everyone, and it didn't work.

As Jamey noted in his email today ... Baseball Prospectus has TEX farm system ranked #2 and LAA ranked #30. Baseball America ... TEX #3 and LAA #30.

You have to have an ownership and management oriented to the long term, sustained solution to get to where TEX has been for quite a few years. You also have to be in a market where there isn't a "win now at any cost" priority.

LAA and NYY are both located in markets where there is a "win now" mentality. TV money is huge and in those other markets the demand to "win now" only magnifies the orientation. Those TV outlets expect that the money they invest will show up right away with a block buster winner from year one. They are in the entertainment business. The heat is turned up even more when there is a major market competitor over in the next county ... LAD-LAA and NYY-NYM.

This major difference in market in my opinion is why TEX has the ownership and management perspective that it does. In the long term ... I think the TEX method is the more productive. All LAA and NYY have to show for recent expenditures is disappointment ... perhaps due to the fact they spent a lot of money for NAMES ... and denied considering value and predictable future performance.

 

[jta4437]

As Jamey noted in his email today ... Baseball Prospectus has TEX farm system ranked #2 and LAA ranked #30. Baseball America ... TEX #3 and LAA #30.

You have to have an ownership and management oriented to the long term, sustained solution to get to where TEX has been for quite a few years. You also have to be in a market where there isn't a "win now at any cost" priority.

LAA and NYY are both located in markets where there is a "win now" mentality. TV money is huge and in those other markets the demand to "win now" only magnifies the orientation. Those TV outlets expect that the money they invest will show up right away with a block buster winner from year one. They are in the entertainment business. The heat is turned up even more when there is a major market competitor over in the next county ... LAD-LAA and NYY-NYM.

This major difference in market in my opinion is why TEX has the ownership and management perspective that it does. In the long term ... I think the TEX method is the more productive. All LAA and NYY have to show for recent expenditures is disappointment ... perhaps due to the fact they spent a lot of money for NAMES ... and denied considering value and predictable future performance.

Amen

 

[Xx srs bsns xX]

So Verlander gets 7/180
Posey gets 9/167
Kershaw is on the verge of a new deal.....

Come on Elvis!

 

[scotsman1948]

now CJ has jumped on the Hamilton bandwagon trashing the Rangers

 

[romeo212000]

now CJ has jumped on the Hamilton bandwagon trashing the Rangers

Who cares? Let them be douches together. They can share shoulders to cry on when they miss the post season altogether for a fourth straight year.

 

[scotsman1948]

Who cares? Let them be douches together. They can share shoulders to cry on when they miss the post season altogether for a fourth straight year.

we can only hope you are right

 

[Al Falfa]

now CJ has jumped on the Hamilton bandwagon trashing the Rangers

Not sure how the writer gets that Wilson was trashing Rangers fans by saying that Texas is a football state, which it is or that the Cowboys are a bigger draw, which they are. They have drawn pretty well the last 3 or 4 years, but there is no way they would have drawn 3 million unless they were winning. I'm not a Wilson fan, but this is just someone trying to stir up something.